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About 10 years ago I was having my annual holiday party, and my niece had come with her newly minted M.B.A. boyfriend. As he looked around the room, he noted that my employees seemed happy. I told him that I thought they were.
Then, figuring I would take his new degree for a test drive, I asked him how he thought I did that. “I’m sure you treat them well,” he replied.
“That’s half of it,” I said. “Do you know what the other half is?”
He didn’t have the answer, and neither have the many other people that I have told this story. So what is the answer?
I fired the unhappy people.
My friend Roger sent this great article to me. I find that people don’t really change, so surrounding yourself with the best people sometimes involves staying away from the non-best ones.
I think it was Predictably Irrational that had a chapter about people who are unlucky vs. people that feel they are lucky. In the end a lucky person is someone with no greater luck but just one who focusses on the positive and not the negative.
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