Baseball Hall of Fame owner Bill Veeck was a real character, but that's for another post... or two... or twenty two. This post is to share Veeck's commandments for his professional life, which I first heard twenty years ago when he was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame.
My favorites (in the form which I originally heard them) are...
- Take your work very seriously. Give your all. Go for broke.
- Surround yourself with similarly dedicated soul-mates of whom you can ask “why?” And “why not?” Naturally, they may ask the same of you! Never hire a coat-holder.
- In your hiring be color-blind, gender-blind, age-and-experience blind. You never worked for Bill Veeck; you worked with him.
- Cherish the moment, commit it to memory.
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