Emotions Matter

Emotions matter.

Politicians know this. The captains of the financial industry know this (I’m reading the book Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves. More on this later)

Business folks in general don’t get this.

Case in point, when I was laid off the guy that did the laying off asked if I wanted to know how he made his decision. At this point in time I was already out of a job so I figured what the heck, indulge me.

“Well,” he says. “The first thing that I did was to take out all the emotion.”

Great, I’ve got a family to feed, but I’m not sure how to do it right now and you, you’ve taken all the emotion out of everything. Hoo Rah.

Emotions matter…..which is why this is so great.


The Return from Iraq - Click here for more amazing videos