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A Japanese Manager Once Told Me: “We Fire Employees Who Arrive on Time.”
I laughed.
Then he explained why—and it completely changed how I see success.
I first heard this in Tokyo during a business dinner.
I asked why being late is such a serious offense in Japan.
He replied calmly:
“We don’t fire the late ones. We fire the ones who arrive exactly at the start.”
The table went silent.
In my culture, arriving right on time means:
• responsible
• disciplined
• professional
In his culture? It means passive.
He explained:
“If you arrive at 9:00 sharp, you’ve waited until the last possible second.”
That tells us something important.
It tells us you didn’t plan for:
• traffic
• delays
• uncertainty
• responsibility beyond yourself
And if you don’t plan for uncertainty… you can’t be trusted with systems.
He said something I’ll never forget:
“Only the weak arrive in the last minute.”
Not because they’re lazy—but because they think in limits, not margins.
Japanese companies don’t value accuracy.
They value anticipation.
A professional arrives early to:
• settle the mind
• read the room
• prepare mentally
• show readiness
Not to rush in out of breath.
That idea stayed with me.
And once I noticed it… I couldn’t unsee it.
The most successful people everywhere, no matter within which country:
• arrive early
• stay calm
• observe first
• speak last
They’re already present before others even enter.
They build trust before the meeting begins.
They notice details others miss.
They create opportunity before others react.
That edge compounds.
Showing up early isn’t about time.
It’s about mindset.
Exactly on time says: “I did the minimum.”
Early says: “I came prepared for reality.”
Business, and life, require margin.
When someone says, “But I came on time,”
I no longer hear discipline.
I hear the limit of their thinking.
Japan understood this long ago:
Success begins before the clock starts.
Will Americans and Germans and many others relearn these self-explanatory principles?
The question going forward is:
Will YOU continue with the behavior of the Have-Nots, or choose the behavior and success of the Have-Yachts?
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As temperatures collapsed below zero across Texas this week, so too did the state's renewable power generation.
Wind, solar and batteries supplied just 7% of electricity as the storm hit.
Solar output dropped first, cut by heavy cloud cover and low winter sun angles.
Wind generation followed as the cold intensified. Renewable outages surged.
The grid held on for one reason: dispatchable power.
Coal generation ramped. Nuclear output stayed steady, while natural gas carried the bulk of the load.
Texas avoided a humanitarian crisis because firm generation replaced failing renewables.
The nationwide picture is the same.
On Sunday, January 25, fossil fuels (plus nuclear) supplied 82% of U.S. electricity. This is what keeps the heating on when Americans need it most. Not ideology.
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Government...
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location, which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo..
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany ..
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, "If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says Bud.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required," answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are, and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter.
This is a herd of sheep. .....
Now give me back my dog.
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This is what great leadership looks like:
Watch it again.
Shannon Ehrhardt@SEhrhardtKCCI
"Matt Campbell owes Iowa State nothing." AD Jamie Pollard tears up talking Campbell's 10-year run...powerful stuff @KCCINews
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@591actual No comparison u don’t c loops at commercial facilities. Legs cost more upfront but a lifetime of reward
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