Tuesday, February 13, 2018

One of my rare bets

Normally, I rarely venture into betting. But recently I had an opportuninty that I found to be too good to be missed.
I had the opportunity to enter into a bet with a CEO I have the pleasure to know. He has a quite natural interest in the image of his management team within the company - an image, which has the measurable indicator of a score in the annual satisfaction survey filled in by the employees.
This was the foundation, on which I made him an offer: "If you make yourself more physically visible in the offices, start applying Management By Walking Around on the days when you are not out of office on other business - initially, just start visiting coffee machines in remote corners of the offices - I am fully convinced that the Management Team score in the satisfaction survey will increase." The bet concerns a book - the loser will give the winner a book, which book is chosen by the loser.
I am quite certain that I will win. And even if I lose, I still feel that in a way, I will have won - because even in that case, I get the pleasure of picking a good and inspiring book to give away.
(Translated from Et af mine sjældne væddemål, originally published February 10th, 2018)

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