Successfully Failing Your Way.

'If you're going to fail - fail my way.'

- Ron Barassi, six time AFL Premiership player, four time Premiership coach.

A good decision is one that advances you towards where you want to be.

At home - choose where you want to be and how you get there and by when.

At work - your boss pays you to advance her towards where she wants to be.

Where she wants to be.

It's her Widget she's paying you to make.

Her Widget.

You don't get to tell her what her Widget is. That's her boss's job.

You don't get to tell her she's making her Widget wrongly. Again - her boss.

Your boss is paying you money to do whatever she has employed you to do to contribute towards making her Widget to her boss's satisfaction.

You're paid to tell her anything about your widget that is relevant to her Widget.

Once you've done that and you're sure she's understood you - then shut up.

That's why the boss is always right. Always.

Yours is probably one of many widgets that the boss is coordinating to make her Widget. She needs you to make it to her specs so that the other widgets will fit.

She's entitled to ignore your opinion on your widget because it's ultimately her Widget.

Your boss can lead you to failure if she wishes.

It's her Widget.

Let her fail her way.