MINUTES of a MONDAY #94

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BRAIN FOOD > Show Don’t Tell

“When Bratton was running the police division of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), the MTBA board decided to purchase small squad cars that would be cheaper to buy and run. That went against Bratton’s new policing strategy. Instead of fighting the decision, however, or arguing for a larger budget - something that would have taken months to revaluate and probably would have been rejected in the end - Bratton invited the MBTA’s general manager for a tour of his unit to see the district.

To let the general manager see the horror he was trying to rectify, Bratton picked him up in a small car just like the ones that were being ordered. He jammed the seats up front to let the manager feel how little legroom a six-foot cop would get, and then Bratton drove over every pothole he could.

Bratton also put on his belt cuffs, and gun for the trip so that the manager would see how little space there was for the tools of the police officer’s trade. After two hours, the general manager wanted out. He told Bratton he didn’t know how Bratton could stand being in such a cramped car for so long on his own, never mind having a criminal in the backseat.

Bratton got the larger cars his new strategy demanded.”

Extract from the book ‘Blue Ocean Strategy’

SOUL FOOD:

“Never argue. In society, nothing must be discussed; give only results.”

Benjamin Disraeli

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APPENDIX:

“A heckler once interrupted Nikita Khrushchev in the middle of a speech in which he was denouncing the crimes of Stalin. “You were a colleague of Stalin’s”, the heckler yelled, “why didn’t you stop him then?” Khrushchev apparently could not see the heckler and barked out, “Who said that?”

No hand went up. No one moved a muscle. After a few seconds of tense silence, Khrushchev finally said in a quiet, hushed voice, “Now you know why I didn’t stop him.”

Extract from Robert Greene’s 48 Laws of Power (Rule 9: Win Through Your Actions, Never Through Argument).

A.O.B

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