The Go-Giver Leader: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business by Bob Burg & John David Mann

Author:Bob Burg & John David Mann
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-03-28T14:00:00+00:00

KEY #2: BUILD YOUR PEOPLE

KEY #3: DO THE WORK

On the next blank page he carefully wrote down a few thoughts that had stayed in his mind from his morning at Allen & Augustine and his talk with Claire at lunch:

DO THE WORK

Lead from your gut.

Know your pegs and shims.

Stay hugely humble.

Stay grounded.

Get mud on your boots.

And trust yourself.

9: Birth and Death

Friday morning at 9:05, Ben emerged from the old brick building and stood on the sidewalk outside, struggling to decide what to do.

When he had arrived at reception five minutes earlier to keep his appointment with Karen, the VP of Finance and Personnel, there was a message waiting for him, asking if he would meet her at the hospital. Ben’s heart had leaped into his throat. The hospital?! Had something terrible happened?

Ben did not like hospitals.

It had been more than a decade since he had set foot in one, and it would be fine with him if it were ten more decades before he did so again. He honestly didn’t know how he could go meet Karen there.

But how could he not go?

“Monday’s board meeting is on the line here, Ben,” he muttered, standing on the sunlit sidewalk. “Every vote counts.” Especially one as influential as Karen’s. He couldn’t afford to blow off this appointment; he might not get another chance.

He headed up the street for the parking garage.

• • •

He found the petite woman with the dark intelligent eyes sitting on a bench just outside Emergency, smoking a cigarette.

“Glad to see you’re okay!” he said. “What happened?”

“Amy, one of our customer service agents—”

“I met her,” said Ben. “The enormously pregnant one.”

Karen nodded slowly. “Enormously pregnant. That’s Amy.” She took a drag on her cigarette. “She’s gone into labor, way ahead of schedule. Complications.”

For the second time today, Ben’s heart lurched. “Is the baby okay?”

Karen stubbed out the cigarette and got to her feet. “Actually, no.” She grabbed a satchel from the ground by her feet and headed inside with Ben in tow, talking to him over her shoulder as they trod the halls.

“It started in the middle of the night. Both of them are in critical condition. The baby’s in Neonatal; Amy’s isolated in Critical Care.”

They entered an elevator and Karen punched 3.

Ben glanced at the elevator directory to see what was on the third floor. After a moment, he asked, “So . . . why are we going up to Oncology?”

“Another one of our employees, Phoebe in Accounting, has a grandmother here. She’s not doing well. Doesn’t get many visitors.”

The elevator door opened and they walked down a series of hallways until they arrived at Phoebe-in-Accounting’s grandmother’s room, where they stopped and waited. A moment later a nurse emerged from the room and said, “They’re doing a procedure now. She’s sedated, but you can go in and sit in just a few minutes.”

Ben and Karen took their seats on a small bench in the hall.

“Planning to be here long?” said Ben. He nodded at her satchel, which was overflowing with papers, files, and, Ben guessed, probably a small laptop.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.