Smart not Hard...

Smart not Hard… Years ago I was a manager at Wal-Mart…twenty-one years in fact… I had this District Manager…who just didn’t do it for me… Not one socially redeeming value…but he taught me something… I have never forgotten…every single morning he would say… “Let’s work hard not smart.” That resonated in my heart and mind and is with me to this day… I hardly ever rush… Push myself… In fact more than a few have said… “You seem to glide through life…” I take that as a compliment… What I do is plan… Research… Then execute… I don’t shuffle paper for the sake of shuffling paper… It matters not one whit to me… About someone seeing a piece of paper… That proves my hierarchy in the chain-of-command… Or if at the end of the day… Everyone knows that my idea was the innovative one… “Child Please…” What I want is a finalized…budget, procurement, document…whatever… That proves we all got the work done… In the smartest… Least stressful… Well done way… That way at the end of the day… We can log off our computers… Grab our gear… Get in our cars… Gliding home… To enjoy the rewards that our Smart work…brings us… acVernon Menchan