Good morning.
And welcome to morning cereal
Okay, good morning and welcome to Friday.
Well, we've made it yet again and
hopefully you have a pretty
nice weekend coming up here.
Maybe a nice trip to the
Home Depot or some soccer games.
Actually, wait a minute, I guess that's
my weekend plans, but I'm
sure yours are just as cool.
Well, perhaps you have plans with your
siblings tonight or this weekend as well.
And that's timely because today is
National Brothers and Sisters Day,
showing appreciation for the unique bonds
that you may have with
those that you grew up with,
whether they're good or they're bad.
That's for you to decide.
Lastly, it's Harry Potter Day.
So happy Harry Potter
Day to everybody out there.
And the reason why we're celebrating this
is because we're
celebrating the allies' defeat
of Lord Voldemort.
I mean, of course you guys all knew that.
It's probably been on
your calendars as well.
But our quote today comes from someone
who could have definitely helped
in the battle with Lord Voldemort.
His quote encourages dedication and
relentless pursuit of excellence.
It's from Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and
he said, quote, "Be the
hardest worker in the room."
End quote.
Well, today's news facts and birthdays
are for May 2nd, and we're
going to start back in 2008.
That's when the very first film in the
Marvel Cinematic Universe was released.
Which one was it?
Iron Man.
It was directed by Jon Favreau, and it
starred Robert Downey Jr., as we all
know, as Tony Stark.
Then in 2011 on this date, believe it or
not, that's when Osama bin Laden,
obviously he's the suspected mastermind
behind the September 11 attacks,
and at the time he was
the FBI's most wanted man.
Well, he was killed on this date by U.S.
Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
And then finally in 2018, new research
shows that plants talk to
each other through their
roots in the soil in a study on corn that
was published in the journal Plus One.
I mean, come on, how am I supposed to not
make a joke about corn having ears?
All right, I'm going to stay strong.
I'm not going to be corny.
Dang it.
Well, happy birthday to you
if today is your birthday.
You share a birthday with soccer player
and Inter Miami owner David Beckham.
He turns 50 today.
And then entertainer
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
He's 53 today.
And the number one song on this date back
in 1992 was "Jump" by Chris Cross.
Now you remember these guys, right?
They became super popular with this
landmark hip hop song at just,
get this, they were
just 13 and 12 years old.
That's incredible.
And none of us could forget their
signature backwards clothing style.
You remember that?
Well, the duo and the song were both
nominated for best new
artist and best rap performance,
respectively.
And "Jump" was their only
number one hit on the Hot 100,
but they had four number one
hits on the rap song chart.
Truly, these kids were the
"Miggity-Miggity Mac Daddies."
Well, the obvious transition here is to
"Jump" into our book review.
So let's do just that.
We are reading Stephen R. Kobe's "The
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People."
And we are in Kobe's second chapter, "The
Seven Habits," an overview.
And this is where Kobe is discussing how
important and influential
habits are in our lives.
And with those habits being defined as
the intersection between
knowledge, skill, and desire.
And as we know by now, these habits grow
on a maturity continuum, right?
And we grow from dependence to
independence to interdependence.
And these habits can be highly effective
when properly implemented in our lives,
and properly balanced through Kobe's
production to production
capability balance, right?
We must balance the golden eggs and the
goose that lays them.
And recall, the goose is the asset that
requires maintenance.
Kobe's primary assets that we need to
maintain are physical,
financial, and human assets.
And if you've been with us over the past
week or so, we
painstakingly walk through all of that.
So that should just be a quick review for
those of you that have been with us.
And today we jump into Kobe's
sub-chapter,
"Organizational PC," or "Organizational
Production Capability." And this
principle that Kobe has been dissecting
for us over the last
few sub-chapters of production to
production capability balance, or
balancing the results,
the golden egg, with the producing
assets, or the goose.
This principle is the foundation to which
all the seven habits
in this book are based.
And furthermore, Kobe says if a
foundational principle like
this is true to its course,
then the principle is, quote, "valid and
applicable in a wide variety of
circumstances," end quote.
And in this sub-chapter, Kobe is
highlighting the importance of keeping
the balance in the P
slash PC balance, and specifically
balancing our physical
assets in the organizations that
we are all a part of. Whether they be
institutional at work, our families, or
even with ourselves,
individually. Kobe says if this balance
is not kept in the use of
physical asset, then, quote,
"they decrease organizational
effectiveness, and they often leave
others with dying geese," end quote.
At work, quote, "the PC principle is to
always treat your employees
exactly as you want them to
treat, wait, your best customers," end
quote. We shouldn't look at our
co-workers as commodities,
to just simply push them to the limit
because they're easily
replaceable. Instead, Kobe says,
quote, "you can buy a person's hand, but
you can't buy his heart. His heart is
where his enthusiasm,
his loyalty is," end quote. In the end,
the balance is so
important to maintain, as, quote,
"effectiveness lies in the balance
between the golden egg, the
production, and the health and
welfare of the goose, the production
capability," end quote. It
balances the short term with the
long term, and the
production-slash-production capability
balance principle is, quote,
"the lighthouse. It's the definition and
paradigm of effectiveness
upon which the seven habits in
this book are based," end quote. Well,
the next sub-chapter of part
one is how to use this book,
and that seems a little straightforward
here, Kobe, right? I
mean, let's not offend the
listenership of morning cereal. This is a
very cerebral assemblage
of people. We know how books
work. Either way, people, let's tune in
on Monday to see just what
Kobe has to say about this.
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great weekend. May the
fourth be with you on Sunday,
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