Power Corridor
The director begins his work as he reads the newspaper Berlingske and JP for breakfast and it does not end when the Shipping News and other explanatory material should be read in the car on the way home. During the day there has been a meeting was replaced by another. When he goes to bed at half past eleven times he has had three waking hours that he spent at work (lunch, dinner and walk the dog together with the wife).
Who wants it? More will probably reject this life, but if they really had the chance, I am of the opinion that you should not be a workaholic to would consider taking such a job. Very few young footballers who would say no to a contract with a big club. Very few business leaders who would say no to the post of CEO in Denmark's largest company. It's not a question "whether" but "when" that could be crucial - if you understand the principle of the point.
Today I read Anne Sofie Kragh article Euroman, which is about Nils Smedegaard Andersen, chief executive of AP Moller-Maersk. Of course, Smedegaard Andersen thought about it when he took the job. It must be a common reaction among people who encounter changes or opportunities in their lives. Not that everyone does the same considerations. But to you, no matter how much you live in the present, also do you some thoughts about what you want and what things mean.
The article is funny because it's so obvious that it has an agenda. Nils Smedegaard Andersen should be made a controlled, professional, sharp and slightly ukarismatisk leader. Anne Sofie uses both his interviewee, related persons and the process of getting his portrait in the house to show these traits. The story succeeds in the sense that I am left with just that impression.
Directors are interesting people who knew people from TV, athletes, musicians. In their own fields, they may be talented, strive and industrious. And then they give us a version of a personality and can thus become a model for a lifestyle and setting.
Nils Smedegaard Andersen, "in addition relatively ukarismatisk, which is a plus when you are with AO Moller-Maersk." Whether it is true that it is a plus, I can not relate. But it seems that he is himself.
I have in my short career in business heard several say that they can easily separate the business from their leisure time, they walk around in jeans and are more relaxed at home. They get it often sounds as though they are two different persons. Some of the fallacies that are in the description of the postmodern society must be that we wrap ourselves in different masks depending on what context we are in. The only thing that's true this may be that we may find ourselves in many different contexts. At Brøndby stadium, I am dressed in different clothes than when I sit to head meeting. But I'm still the same Erik, I still have the same values and same reaction patterns. How would you otherwise be able to trust me - and how could I trust myself?
One of the most exciting things happening in my workday is when colleagues put their personality into their work, they give something of themselves; opens up and adds what they have in their hands a unique value. You do not do it many times in your love life, in your friendships, on the football field, at work before you see the value of it. May this be a reminder to myself.
