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Working Zingers: If

October 2, 2010 by David Zinger 1 Comment

A modern working twist on Rudyard Kipling’s If

IF you can keep

your head

when all about you

are losing theirs

your Blackberry is broken.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

David Zinger, M.Ed., works with organizations and individuals to foster engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 3000 member Employee Engagement Network. David wrote, Zengage: How to Get More Into Your Work to Get More Out of Your Work.  David’s website offers 1100 free posts/articles on the engagement. David is committed to fostering a movement to increase employee engagement 20% by 2020.

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Comments

  1. Martin Locock says

    October 5, 2010 at 9:42 am

    If you can keep your job when all about you
    Are losing theirs and rightly blaming you
    If you can fake sincerity when men doubt you
    And make them suffer for their doubting too
    If you can apologise for keeping someone waiting
    But delay them further by your lies
    And seem good natured while secretly hating
    The well-informed, the gentle and the wise

    If you can plot – to overthrow your master
    If you can snipe – without bothering to aim
    If you can meet with Chaos and Disaster
    And treat those two co-workers just the same
    If you thrill to hear your name is spoken
    Feted by dolts and praised by fools
    And insist on fixing things that are not broken
    Or, failing, turn around and blame your tools

    If you can steal the balance of the Lotto winnings
    And fire someone without giving a toss
    If you can stall an initiative’s beginnings
    And ensure the outcome’s total loss
    If you can do without backbone or sinew
    And leave a mess behind you when you’ve gone
    If you can kill all honesty within you
    And focus everything on Getting On

    If you can reject all impulses to virtue
    Poison every task with leprous touch
    Ensure that all of those that hurt you
    End up hurt themselves at least as much
    If you can fill each unproductive minute
    With a critique of how the firm is run
    And forget the part that you play in it-
    You will be a Manager, my son.

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