Two Fish Under One Roof: Managing Different Personalities

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So you have two businesses under one roof that had varying personalities, and oh, by the way, just for an additional fun, there is a natural and adversarial relationship between those two parts of your business, right? So you've been to those meetings, right? Accounting, put the finance department in the room with the salespeople and have them give the lecture about the CRM.

Isn't that a fun one? Like, hey guys, you gotta fill out the CRM. You want us pushing paper and filling out fields, or you want us out there making deals? No, Dingleberry, I wanna get you paid, and it would be nice if you had them sign and date the contract. What, you're telling me I'm not getting paid? You're still not listening.

I'm just trying to get us paid here. Like, what happened? What's going on, no, you see what I mean? You've been to that meeting before, and you've been to the process versus the goal-oriented people. So there you are, you're doing your town hall, you're talking about the vision of the company, and you're sharing what's gonna happen over the next six months, one year, three years.

You're all pumped, and you're sharing that, and then someone's like, yeah, but how are we gonna do that? You're sharing the what, they're the how. And you're like, listen, what are you trying to be, a buzzkill? Like, no, but this is the same vision you've been telling us for the last three years. We've been trying to get you to implement some of it.

We haven't started the last set of bad ideas you had. You want us to start on the next set of bad ideas?

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