Those that Know - Do, Those that Understand - Teach

There are areas in which we do have more knowledge within areas than others.  As well, there are areas in which those which understand teach. 

Is there really a difference? 

I know there are areas of which I don’t understand and I follow through with what I have learned.  This quote does miff me as I recently have met with a gent and his wife and both were professionals which then started their own consulting business.  For an hour I had lunch with the Lyall and within our conversation he asked me if I would ever consider on the side of setting up my own website as according to him.  He thought I was a wealth of experience and as he placed it, “now and then he has met someone whom has immense knowledge and experience”.  For myself I have always believed I am growing and even within this stage of the game I am doing more on the healing side which Lyall could see.  I continued to talk with him as to see if there was any hitch factor. 

As with this recording studio, I learned my lesson of when so much is offered and how there is some underlying factor.  Back to my story.  Yet from afar, I have had emails from clients which wished to come into the studio.  Here is a little bit about myself within what would be paramount in the foundation of areas of what I have done.

I have always been able to render things within management – yet within management of immediate staff as well as other senior managers – I listened and then knew how to understand how to groom a team.  I would go into a distressed shopping center and listen, introduce Monday morning meetings where the first half hour was just shooting the breeze and then the last half hour all of us sharing what they had on their agenda for the week.  The right hand knew what the left hand was doing after.  Teaming always worked as each knew what the other was doing.  Then there was the listening and watching as there is always some whom feel that they were above the team and were adamant to participate.  Within this style, I learned quickly where the problematic situations were within the administration staff.

Then I was able to give three chances to the non team members which were the root of the problem of the administrative side.  Often what I found was that it was the ethics and work ethics of my staff.  I found that some could be a janitor and thrive and love the job.  While then there was a minority which was always trying to coax others to slow down.  More times than often I found that within a three month period I could build a team where it was due.  After a period of time of those which never participate, I decided to introduce the rotation of each person’s position.  After one month of listening, I would introduce the swapping positions.  What I learned was there were those whom loved the changes invited the idea as they were growing new skills within a team efficient idea which was rendered within the listening and asking within the morning meetings as well as throughout the week.  Then there were a few which despised the idea as they wished to just come in do half a days work if that and felt they were above this practice.  In doing this nearly everyone learned how to do a variety of jobs, and were grateful for the learning experience. 

For myself the key was in listening and learning and rendering an effective team not by way of being a tyrant but proving that I was apart of the entire ensemble of the effective team.  When ever I was invited to go to speech engagements or attend what was called and Idea Exchange and Trade Show – I have all the staff members throw their name into a raffle and one week before during our Monday Team meetings we would raffle off who gets to go.  I thought I would post this management style which I utilized as it went on to be utilized with other companies whom wished to improve their properties as well as staff.

 

Lyall knew that I am on a pause period.  I never placed too much within what I know and do, nor have I thought of what I have come to understand is worth the teaching.  I have taught sectional engagements within the University.  I have lectured for the International Council of Shopping Centers.  As well, I have ran an intricate company for four people whom where ones which I learned much from.  Most all of this was in a conversation today and tomorrow I get together with Lyall again.  He can see that I have went through allot within the last few years but he apparently sees myself as literally a “jack of all trades” as I have been a generalist rather than a specialist.

After finishing my workout and then engaging into a conversation.  We literally talked out and engaged within so many areas.  Tomorrow I am merely going to take a run, and then enjoy a invited drive around to some places and listen to understand and  thereafter I will know much more as to what seemingly is a good small town gesture of a very conservative yet immensely smart gent which of what I understand.  I would love to have my own office here without any frills and the idea of doing something which my experience lends it’s self towards and there is a rate of return.  Which seemingly may come my way?  Donald Trump always said within real-estate the main thing for success within business within commercial and residential real-estate was location, location, and location.  I have always believed in a term called, ensure that the "i"s are dotted and the "t" are crossed, and go through everything with a fine comb brush.  Once I know more about it in details, I shall take it from there.  But if I do, I would only do it as my own.

Surprisingly, through this pause period the manner that I have set things up.  Things are just starting to seemingly come into a render of sorts.  Or it’s just starting to take within a good way.  The one thing I know is how fast things can change mind you it does take patience.  Regardless of what takes place I have already offered myself as a volunteer at the local veterinary clinic – to just have something else aside of my mornings.  As I have done several things and as a generalist which I listened and where things do lead to are that again of not striving for the immediate but never pass of something which may have that reciprocation.

I don’t  I have ever mentioned this one area which I took on when I started working as a part time marketing manager while being a disc jokey by night.  In one year, I was asked to be the manager of a small mall owned by four very prominent men who ran the largest shopping center company within the world, what the company never developed, I would handle as a member of the board of directors.  I listened to them as each one of them came from very humble beginnings.  Yet they always stayed out of the limelight as they were known by those within the shopping center industry, and books have been written on them and how they had formed a company.

I have never thrown all the eggs in one basket.  Always believed there was an incubation time in making decisions.  I have never looked at the money as the means of what I do, I always and still to this day would rather engage in something which the money is only the byproduct.  What I have learned is that if I listen I have learned far more than if I thought I knew it all I still believe to this date that everyone makes mistakes and I certainly have within the areas of work but I was taught in how to improve.  This has always been the foundation of which I strive.

This is an atypical write, but it came to mind as a few things have been starting to come my way.  But I don’t wait for things to happen.  I would rather embark on what I deem as fit. After all Aristotle had a quote which one can relate with.  As those that know do, and those that understand listen more than often within my experience.