Underpromise & then Overdeliver!

Never say you can do something just because you think that’s what the person you’re working for wants to hear. Instead, be conservative in what you say you can deliver, and then give your best to deliver more than what you promised. While it's great to be confident, you never want to promise the impossible.

Rule #7: Stand By Your Team

Once you've built the right team, make sure that each member of that team knows that you support them, that you value them, and are there for them. Don't build a team of "yes men", stay away from a team of the same personalities (unless they are clones), don't micromanage and try to control every action and decision, don't build a team where talents and skills overlap.
Instead look for team members who have Integrity, Honesty, Great Communication Skills, Resilience, who Share Mission and Sense of Purpose.
Trust your team, you're only as good as they are. Continue to inspire your team, allow them to be creative, efficient, cohesive. Put together your staff then get out of the way, trust in your ability to pick a winning team. And don't hesitate to let someone go who is affecting the team as a whole.

New Recruitment Video

So, today started off fairly normal...Troop inspections:
Communicators working...Blasters functioning...Clones not too short...etc.

I was presented with a Letterman's Jacket by the local High School:

Everything was looking good...

Then it happened...

TK-069's uniform was brought to my attention: *SIGH , I like to be open minded and I'm all for self expression, but this sort of disruption had to be dealt with ... FIRED!

Rule #6: Outsource when Necessary

Outsourcing is often viewed as involving the contracting out of a business function - commonly one previously performed in-house - to an external provider.
Some considerations to think about:

• Is the vendor capable of carrying out the task?


• Are your needs like other projects already accomplished by the vendor?


• Does the vendor have the necessary qualifications and equipment for my task?

Rule #5: Hold regular meetings

Met with the board today...it's good to make sure that everyone is on the same page. It is of vital importance to make sure that my vision and goals are understood and that each manager knows what is expected of them on a daily basis in order to achieve those goals.

I also watched "Undercover Boss"....hmmmm

Rule #4: Assess and Eliminate any Potential Setbacks

• Vulnerability is a weakness that could be used to cause harm
• Threat is anything that actually causes harm
• Risk is the likelihood that the harm will occur

Put another way, risk is the chance that a threat will attack or exploit a vulnerability.

Rule #3: Be a Mentor

Mentoring gives you the extraordinary opportunity to facilitate a protege's personal and professional growth by sharing knowledge you learned through years of experience. While the primary intent of your mentoring role is to challenge the protege to think in new and different ways, the protege is not the only one who gains from the arrangement.

Rule #2: Clean House

If other peoples problems begin to become your problems, you MUST draw the line and hand out "pink slips".

Press Release - Creating a new image - rebranding

In the latest effort to make-over the Empire, new Chief Executive Officer Devin Walker confirmed yesterday that the Death Star, the Empire's vaunted, planet-destroying space station, has added a new, state-of-the-art day care center to its already vast array of capabilities. The massive four-room day care center, which, according to Walker, will "provide a safe and fun learning environment for tots between the ages of one and four," has already begun spring enrollment and is expected to be fully operational by July 1.

"Nothing can stop the Sunshine Death Star Play and Learning Center," Walker said via holograph. "With its four classrooms, outdoor playground and experienced staff of licensed day care professionals, no other facility can match its awesome instructive power." Though still several weeks away from full strength, the Sunshine Death Star Center is already up and running. Among the most popular activities there are finger-painting, story time and Duck Duck Goose, which Walker often helps lead. "Feel your hatred flow through you," he told 3-year-old Jenny Bates, as she energetically chased fellow toddler and "goose" Michael Phillips around the outside of the circle. "Give in to your hatred!"

In addition to enjoying many fun games and learning activities, children at the Sunshine Death Star Day Care Center have already witnessed the destruction of several planets out the center's giant bay window. Last Friday, in the middle of a coloring activity, the planet Corellia was blown up, delighting 23 of the 24 children who witnessed the devastating power of the battle station. The sole exception was Libby Phelps, 3, whose family was vacationing in Corellia at the time of its destruction. She was frightened by the loud explosion and began to cry upon realizing that her mother, father and younger sister were now dead. The emperor's elite squadron of imperial guards leapt to action, removing the girl from the room and giving her some ice cream treats to calm her.

According to Death Star officials, the idea for the center sprang up after a number of parents complained about the lack of quality, affordable child care options on the Death Star. "As a stormtrooper and father of three, I'm very excited about the new day care center," Death Star citizen Ralph Sedgwick said. "It's a safe, nurturing environment, one in which my child will learn." Added Gail Lindon: "For years I took my daughter to work because I couldn't afford a nanny. Do you have any idea how hard it is to operate a tractor beam with a two-year-old pulling at your leg?"

As excited as most are about the new day care center, a few extremists have expressed concern about its proximity to the Death Star's reactor core.

"There is an opening in the Death Star's main shaft that leads to the core," parent and dissenting voice Annette Voss said. "If a small rebel ship were to somehow break through the deflector shield and enter the shaft, it's possible it could hit the reactor core with a single, well-placed proton torpedo shot and destroy the entire space station." Experts, however, scoff at Voss's theory, dismissing such a shot as "a million to one."

Rule #1: Take Inventory

Met with the rest of our senior management. I think it's very important to surround yourself with like minded people. Anyone who doesn't bring 100% positivity to the table or is "toxic" MUST go.

I HAVE YOU NOW!

Well I'm finally here. After many hours of "intense" negotiations and meetings. As you may or may not know I have been offered and accepted a new position with a floundering enterprise. I will be working tirelessly to repair a heavily damaged and tarnished image, deal with significant loss of resources, filling the void left after the recent loss of most of the upper management, and turning things around here. I will endeavor to keep everyone up to date with the daily trials and tribulations and overcoming the rebranding, restructuring and rebirth of a once great empire.

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