Urghhh ...

[1StrongBlackMan]

I arrived to work this morning at 4:30 a.m., to put the final touches on a presentation that I was to deliver to upper, upper management players, scheduled for 9:00 a.m.

I fired up my coffee maker and dove into the project.

At 8:45 a.m., I received a pigeon (IM) that the meeting is being re-scheduled for 2:00 p.m.

URGHHH!

[olddots]

1. so now you have the option of getting completely amped on coffee

or trying to nap at the desk which is never a good option .The world lives on caffeine .

I feel for you but you'll make it .

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. LOL ...

The world lives on caffeine .

Caffeine and Nicotine ... The Breakfast of Champions!

No ... I'll bump up this afternoon's appointments, that I will have to re-schedule, into earlier slots ... I don't do well when I have too much time thinking about up coming events; negative thoughts creep in.

[cwydro]

8. I'm the same.

Hang tough!

[LiberalAndProud]

3. I hope it goes well in spite of the five hour delay

and the early start of your day.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Half an hour to go if you're on EST.

You can do it!

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. It's going to be "interesting" ...

The bigwigs want to make a change in operations that constitutes a huge cultural shift ... that's fine; but, their approach "Do it because I said so" is doomed for failure, as they have zero buy-in from key internal and external stakeholders ... in fact, they haven't even discussed the change with the stakeholders.

My presentation will be a brief Leadership 101: Managing Organizational Change While Being The New Kid On The Block seminar, sub-title: Whoa, Nelly! You What To Do It When? ... and they are not going to take it well.

[HappyMe]

6. Good luck.

It certainly sounds like you have more realistic ideas about what can/should be done and when.

[1StrongBlackMan]

7. 4-6 weeks to change 100+ year culture ...

Not ... Gonna ... Happen!

[HappyMe]

9. No, it won't.

Why those people don't understand that, is beyond me....

Again, best of luck. I know you'll make them see the light.

[1StrongBlackMan]

10. Because the Top Dog and his Second ...

hail from private institutions where they could just fire and/or belittle, in the most vulgar terms, those that don't comply ... and they hire underlying that are young, pretty, and compliant.

Did I mention young and pretty?

I predict a major project, soon to come ... will be consulting on handling the major sexual harassment and/or sex/age discrimination complaint, I suspect will be filed, any day now.

[HappyMe]

11. Whoa!

That's serious. I've had some experience with the young and pretty getting moved up before me. Then young and pretty proved to be pretty incompetent (which we all knew). I am a bit ashamed to say that didn't break my heart. Eventually she got moved to a different position in another department. I don't miss office land at all.

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. It's sad ...

One of the "Young n Prettys" was hired at the Associate VP level ... she has less than 1 year supervising (not directing or managing, supervising) a staff of 5 clerical supporters. She is tasked with instituting the change and doesn't have a clue why just change the Org-Chart won't affect the change.

[Skittles]

12. upper, UPPER management!

in case you didn't get that, everyone!

[caraher]

14. I like "pigeon"

I was teaching a class on energy and at the beginning asked college students to imagine they lived in an age without our technology but were fabulously rich and could afford to pay as many people as they liked to maintain something close to their current lifestyle. Of the four groups, in addition to listing people to do every kind of essential and entertainment task I could imagine, two groups independently realized a burning need for a pigeon trainer...