Controling Your Destiny
Jack Welch is a business man with a speech impediment. Depending upon your source he is either the salvation of GE or a major cause of many of its shortfalls. But, regardless of who you listen to you will find one concept about the man consistently stated. Jack Welch is about the bottom line.
How is it that a faithful capitalist could so adeptly articulate one of the deepest truths in human emotional well being?
“Control your destiny, or someone else will.”
That simple statement has profound ramifications for all of us.
In fact his book (of the same title) has no less than 6 such statements that could be the cornerstone of many counseling philosophies. I’ll follow each precept with an indication of the temperament most likely to recieve the felling blow from resistance to the concept.
- control your destiny or someone else will (the choleric nightmare syndrome)
- face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it were (melancholies avert your eyes)
- be candid with everyone (sanguines arise)
- don’t manage lead (the phlegmatic downfall)
- change before you have to (supines submit)
- if you don’t have a competitive advantage don’t compete (all temperaments)
Control Your Destiny is a book worth reading even if you are not in the business of being a CEO.