We deserve the heat.

I am not afraid of accountability. Or pixels of anger and despair and frustration from bloggers. You should all be exposed to my email then I think you wouldn’t believe we are immune to criticism. I probably get the most direct criticism of any business leader around as I read all of my email and I talk to folks in an unfiltered way. I don’t get executive summaries. I hear direct from the source, cuss words and all. I get it. I hear it. In fact, most emails are negative. Most happy people don’t write. Just ask any newspaper editor.

But at the same time, I will not deviate from a strategy of a rebuild because of day to day losses. In fact, I believe that is what gets teams and businesses into trouble – lurching from strategy to strategy when the going gets tough. Change is good. Too much change is bad.
Reactive non-reflective random change is really bad.

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LOL. I wasn’t critiquing Michael Lee’s Washington Post article about John Wall. I thought that article was well researched. And well written.

I was retorting to the Washington Examiner article that noted that we should hire a chef. As I noted, we have a chef on staff that cooks breakfasts and lunch for the team. We also hired a chef early on to help John with his diet.

All I was saying in my retort was if I was asked, “Why don’t you hire a chef?” I could have responded, “Well we have and here are the facts.”

And that would have been it. Instead we have fed the monster!

But I am glad I have my blog to retort and clarify and respond.