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Hit the image for a full size view. Inside is an e-mail from the Director of Junior Activities, thanking the ones who helped out. How crass to send a reply e-mail (to all 48 people on the list, no less) with a correction of your name.

I had a hard time resisting the urge to reply, “OMG! Get over yourself!”

How to Stand Out in Any Job by Chris Guillebeau

Getting Things Done When You’re Only a Grunt by Joel Spolsky

How to Make Time for Your Personal Goals by Leo Babauta

One of the forwarded e-mails I received today had a sharp observation that I, for once, agreed with:

Is it just me?

As you watch the flooding in the Midwest, have you noticed that there
are no farmers running around with stolen plasma TVs or holding stolen
liquor over their heads.

There’s no looting or yelling ‘Where’s Bush?’, ‘Where’s FEMA?,  Where’s my check?’, or  ‘Why isn’t the Gov’t out here saving me and my farm?’

Likewise, I’ve also noticed there are no reports of any other country coming
to help or sending aid.

And where is Reverends Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton

Shocking contrast isn’t it?

This is easy to answer. It is because the farmers and midwestern communities are used to rolling up their sleeves, getting to work and helping each other. As for the foreign aid, who expects that? Our politicians have done a wonderful job of mucking up foreign relations without out civilian input (and definitely without our blessing).

Sometimes I can’t help myself. What if?

1. …the Web Services department managed all of the web sites? Certified Angus Beef, AngusSource, National Junior Angus Association, Angus Foundation and more.
2. …the Web Services team was given the time and resources needed to truly be a useful service to our Angus breeders?
3. …we had the time to develop and market mobile ads?
4. …we had the time to build a working online-only sale book for breeders?
5. …we were able to access the raw data powering the Angus Association?
6. …we had permission to manipulate it into something more meaningful and useful for our breeders?
7. …the departments/company/child companies actually worked together, as a whole entity, instead of independent little factions?
8. …the Angus e-Classifieds didn’t suck and we marketed it as a selling tool?
9. …the IS department and Web department played nice, and developed an easy-to-use shopping cart, so our breeders could sell their embryos, semen straws, certificates and miscellaneous wares online?
10. …we were trusted to do our jobs to the best of our abilities, instead of mistrusted and micromanaged?

Well, then…

1. …our talents could really shine.
2. …breeders would value our services.
3. …we’d be on the leading edge, creating new products.
4. …we’d help ease the Special Services department’s burden.
5. …fresh insights would reveal themselves.
6. …breeders could use their data as a tool, not just as a bragging point.
7. …information would flow freely from one section to the next.
8. …we’d generate hands-free sales revenues.
9. …web sites would be tangible and relevant, when translated into money in pockets.
10. …we’d be Google.

What could you accomplish, if red tape didn’t exist? What have you accomplished, despite it all?