Let me tell you about a guy named Larry.
Larry’s a design director who left a pretty cushy position to start a new role at his dream company. He had heard great things about the culture, so he was excited to join.
But when he arrived, the culture was trash. Low energy, boring and toxic. Bummer right? He left a great life behind for this!
Not a bummer. Larry reversed the vibe quickly. A few months later, energy was up, things started getting done, people were leaving at 5.
That’s a big job Larry, flipping an entire corporate culture. How’d you do it?
“I seek out the people that are lost, then I find a way to make work life better for them."
Negative notions are simply not entertained by Larry, and that's highly contagious behavior.
His default method of problem solving is assuming that maybe they’re not even problems. They might just be issues with simple solutions, not to be magnified by overthinking.
Was Larry perhaps a little too positive? We needed a second opinion.
We presented him to one of our clients, to see what their CEO thought of him.
“Loved him. Found him to be very sincere and thoughtful. I want him for our VP role.”
Can life and work always be this simple? Certainly not.
Can we all be just a little bit more like Larry? I bet we could.
