Many years ago there was an old-timer in Colorado who each year invited me to accompany him "over home" to the western slope of that gorgeous state. Each spring he would leave our area near Ft. Collins and return over the mountains to where he grew up and still had family. His name was Roy Beaver and it's anyone's guess how old he was, but every day he shuffled up to the machine shop where he worked and I'd see him in passing. Each year I would make an excuse as to why I could not go. (Aside from the obvious that he had the most adorable wife, Della, and was 50+ years my senior! And we all knew he might have heart failure if I ever said yes!)
One year when he stopped and asked me again to "go over home" with him. I went on at some length about how irreplaceable I was at my job and in my community and I listed off countless things I did that people relied on. He shook his mostly bald head which sent the scant white hair he had on his head into disarray. He had this in answer to my soliloquy: "Oh, hell! If a big, old rock came and fell on your head, they'd find something to do without you!"
Wiser words were never said! Oh my....how we love to think of ourselves as irreplaceable. And, in a certain way, of course, we are. But the best business people also live by the cliche that the sign of a most effective manager is to make themselves redundant!
People rise to the challenge when given opportunity. We don't always have the best and only way to do something. In real estate, sometimes the best transactions are effected when the person's usual Realtor is away or unavailable. Why? One reason is that the stand in is usually not emotionally involved with the client. Another reason is simply that each of us comes at any situation from a different perspective.
Everyone needs to relax and refresh! So, my fellow Realtors. Don't be afraid to let go....chances are everything will be more than okay while you're gone.
It was reported years ago that Lee Iaccoca, when hired to bring Chrysler out of sure collapse, made certain that unless hell was freezing over he was not disturbed at home or while rejuvenating taking time off. Someone challenged him on this saying, "You make so much money, how can you justify taking weekends off?" To which, as urban legend goes, his reply was, "If I can't even manage my own weekend off, how do you think I could manage a multi-billion dollar company?"
Don't wait for a big, old rock to fall before entrusting your job to others!
One year when he stopped and asked me again to "go over home" with him. I went on at some length about how irreplaceable I was at my job and in my community and I listed off countless things I did that people relied on. He shook his mostly bald head which sent the scant white hair he had on his head into disarray. He had this in answer to my soliloquy: "Oh, hell! If a big, old rock came and fell on your head, they'd find something to do without you!"
Wiser words were never said! Oh my....how we love to think of ourselves as irreplaceable. And, in a certain way, of course, we are. But the best business people also live by the cliche that the sign of a most effective manager is to make themselves redundant!
People rise to the challenge when given opportunity. We don't always have the best and only way to do something. In real estate, sometimes the best transactions are effected when the person's usual Realtor is away or unavailable. Why? One reason is that the stand in is usually not emotionally involved with the client. Another reason is simply that each of us comes at any situation from a different perspective.
Everyone needs to relax and refresh! So, my fellow Realtors. Don't be afraid to let go....chances are everything will be more than okay while you're gone.
It was reported years ago that Lee Iaccoca, when hired to bring Chrysler out of sure collapse, made certain that unless hell was freezing over he was not disturbed at home or while rejuvenating taking time off. Someone challenged him on this saying, "You make so much money, how can you justify taking weekends off?" To which, as urban legend goes, his reply was, "If I can't even manage my own weekend off, how do you think I could manage a multi-billion dollar company?"
Don't wait for a big, old rock to fall before entrusting your job to others!
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