There are two things a true professional never does.
1. He never works in his underwear. There’s something about underwear that makes any activity seem less professional, no matter how fine the final product is. I’m sure F. Scott Fitzgerald didn’t write Great Gatsby in his underwear. That’s why I’m writing this entry fully clothed. In this case, Speedos are also considered underwear.
2. He never goes to a meeting without a bag. A suitcase, a messenger bag or the like, but never a backpack. It doesn’t matter what’s in it. It can be a lunch sandwich, a newspaper, notes, even underwear (as long as it stays in the bag), it doesn’t matter, but the bag has to be there or you might as well yell, “I don’t know what I’m doing” when you enter the meeting room.
Now, go take over the world.
Ok, I might as well say it, somebody has to: "He never works in his underwear"…you mean you go commando?!
There is something so vulnerable about people who remove the contemporary armour. Like at airport security, when everybody has to take their shoes off, my eyes sometimes well up when I see all those business people in their socks, shoes in hand. Cute and real.
Hmmm, I’m with you on #1, but disagree on #2.
Bagless meeting taking is a sign of real power. You’re a decision maker, not a worker bee.
I was going to agree with you, but then had a flashback of Finland’s biggest banker at the Stockholm airport. While he wasn’t carrying his briefcase himself, he still had it.
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