Be A Winner, Not A Whiner
A Civil War lesson in how not to be
There are some people you just don’t want working for you.
Like the guy who is great at keeping a neat desk and a tidy office, but is just horrible at actually accomplishing something?
Or that woman who always “dresses to impress,” but never really does anything impressive, or even productive.
Then there’s that other guy who always points fingers when something goes wrong and is quick to shift blame onto someone else.
Sure, we’ve all met someone like that. Sadly, we’ve probably been that person a time or two. Hopefully, though, we don’t add to the problem with an inability to self-reflect and self-correct.
Usually these wretched personality traits result in low production, poor efficiency, maybe low morale. Sometimes it forces employees to pick up slack that they shouldn’t have to.
But sometimes, the fate of a nation is in the balance.
Civil War General George McClellan exhibited all the traits that supervisors hate in an employee.
