First off, thank you all so much for taking the time to think about this. Want cookies for your effort?? Drop me an email! (See it pays to help the Queen of Cookies! LOL)
In alphabetical order and questions are open to anyone!
Mandy:
"I don't know if that made sense or not, but I wish you all the success in the world.....I LOVE your chocolate peanut butter cup cookies and they need to be on the permanent product list. ;)" It all made sense. To me at least! LOL! Thank you so much! The Choc PB are definitely on the permanent list! I haven't made those in months, maybe I should get the peanut butter out and get to work on some!
Mic:
"To what extent are you willing to stand up and take the risk of being wrong?"
One thing that I have been very good at most of my life is admitting when I have been wrong! Of course the downfall is that I say I am wrong sometimes even when I am right and I am very good at taking the blame for things...I call this the youngest child syndrome. But I think I am in need of finding that happy medium!
Pina:
" After all this, a person has to want to lead…" Ok but this is kind of my point! I have never had that desire to lead...and I guess I have never really had the desire to follow either...can I be a loner like Andrea..but back on point - But I want this company, yet when I began devoloping the plan for it I forgot to think about the leadership roles when/if we grow! Therefore, I never really considered the challenges I would face if I have to bring on more staff.
Tom:
"I thin you are much more of a leader than you give yourself credit for. It isn't some mystical accomplishment. Even I, GOS, am not surrounded by an eerie white light--you are taking charge of yourself and your ideas, you are moving (forward) and you are anticipating challenges--hmm, sounds like leadership to me---" Damn, I was so looking forward to walking around with a spot light on me at all times ;) Well then we need to add pigheaded and stubborn to the list of leadership qualities! We also need to add pessimist! Part of the anticipating challenges part, is that I am a pessimist so my theory is prepare for the worst and you can never be disappointed with what you get!
"so always be willing to truthfully answer the question, do I want to get my way or do I want to succeed." Maybe a silly question and I may have missed this point somewhere...but to me getting my way (in certain things) is succeeding. Isn't it in certain cases? I have set certain standards and guidelines as to how I want things done...There is no compromise otherwise I would feel I would be compromising the integrity of the concept of the company
"Or do we hope that I am smart enough to hire someone who is a leader? I think you already are." Well golly gee, aren't I just blushing now! Thank you!
And my biggest thing right now is that I am not afraid of failing, I am afraid of succeeding! And no matter how many times I get yelled at for that, it is still my way of thinking. Succeeding is far more demanding and risky than failing! Coward? Yeah I think to some degree I am! But I really think it is all self preservation and the pessimist in me!
So now that I have no clue what I just said, I am going to take a bath!