CEO Shoptalk: Learn To Say Goodbye
If you aspire to be good at anything, to really excel — including as a CEO — then you better learn how to say “Goodbye, y’all,” as you will be saying it a lot.
Girl whispering to guy, “Look you’re cute as a Labrador puppy, and you have great utility, but I have places to go and people to meet on the road to excellence, so this is goodbye, stud muffin.”
Think of excellence as being a mountain. As you near the top, the air is rarified, the pathway more treacherous, the successful climbers fewer, and that is life. As my billionaire pal Taylor Swift says, “Deal.”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa, Big Red Car — you are no pal of mine, you lying bucket of bolts.”
Come on, babe, play along. You’re making me look bad here.