e running in circles because a project is crashing, and they’re trying to say it’s his fault. He just says, “OK. So, now we know the problem. How about we spend our time on finding the solution?” It doesn’t bother him that the people who backed him when it seemed like a good idea are the ones who are saying it’s all his fault. He just knows it’s a good idea I don’t think a person’s philosophy of life is what he says as much as it is what he does. There are some people with really great philosophies who don’t ever talk about them or write them down. They’re so busy living how they should that they probably don’t even know they have a philosophy. I think if we watch people like that we can learn about how to live instead of how to talk about how to live.

There’s a guy I’ve been working with for a long time, and when I was trying to figure out what I really believe in, I got to thinking about him. I mostly only see him at work, but I’ve got to believe that he lives his whole life the same way he does his job. The name tag on his cube says G. Nilpik. Nobody seems to know what the G stands for, but it must be kind of hard to pronounce because everybody calls him Rudy. It doesn’t matter to me what kind of name that is, because I don’t think his ethnic background has got as much to do with how he lives as the kind of person he’s decided to be.

In our business, competition is tough, and the margins are usually small. When things go right, everybody’s ready to take the credit. When they go wrong, somebody always has to take the blame. Usually it’s the person who came up with the idea in the first place. Rudy’s in product development. It’s his job to come up with new things to market. I’ve seen Rudy in meetings stay absolutely calm with a bunch of people running in circles because a project is crashing, and they’re trying to say it’s his fault. He just says, “OK. So, now we know the problem. How about we spend our time on finding the solution?” It doesn’t bother him that the people who backed him when it seemed like a good idea are the ones who are saying it’s all his fault. He just knows it’s a good idea a

about how to live instead of how to talk about how to live.

There’s a guy I’ve been working with for a long time, and when I was trying to figure out what I really believe in, I got to thinking about him. I mostly only see him at work, but I’ve got to believe that he lives his whole life the same way he does his job. The name tag on his cube says G. Nilpik. Nobody seems to know what the G stands for, but it must be kind of hard to pronounce because everybody calls him Rudy. It doesn’t matter to me what kind of name that is, because I don’t think his ethnic background has got as much to do with how he lives as the kind of person he’s decided to be.

In our business, competition is tough, and the margins are usually small. When things go right, everybody’s ready to take the credit. When they go wrong, somebody always has to take the blame. Usually it’s the person who came up with the idea in the first place. Rudy’s in product development. It’s his job to come up with new things to market. I’ve seen Rudy in meetings stay absolutely calm with a bunch of people running in circles because a project is crashing, and they’re trying to say it’s his fault. He just says, “OK. So, now we know the problem. How about we spend our time on finding the solution?” It doesn’t bother him that the people who backed him when it seemed like a good idea are the ones who are saying it’s all his fault. He just knows it’s a good idea

lpik. Nobody seems to know what the G stands for, but it must be kind of hard to pronounce because everybody calls him Rudy. It doesn’t matter to me what kind of name that is, because I don’t think his ethnic background has got as much to do with how he lives as the kind of person he’s decided to be.

In our business, competition is tough, and the margins are usually small. When things go right, everybody’s ready to take the credit. When they go wrong, somebody always has to take the blame. Usually it’s the person who came up with the idea in the first place. Rudy’s in product development. It’s his job to come up with new things to market. I’ve seen Rudy in meetings stay absolutely calm with a bunch of people running in circles because a project is crashing, and they’re trying to say it’s his fault. He just says, “OK. So, now we know the problem. How about we spend our time on finding the solution?” It doesn’t bother him that the people who backed him when it seemed like a good idea are the ones who are saying it’s all his fault. He just knows it’s a good idea

s are usually small. When things go right, everybody’s ready to take the credit. When they go wrong, somebody always has to take the blame. Usually it’s the person who came up with the idea in the first place. Rudy’s in product development. It’s his job to come up with new things to market. I’ve seen Rudy in meetings stay absolutely calm with a bunch of people running in circles because a project is crashing, and they’re trying to say it’s his fault. He just says, “OK. So, now we know the problem. How about we spend our time on finding the solution?” It doesn’t bother him that the people who backed him when it seemed like a good idea are the ones who are saying it’s all his fault. He just knows it’s a good idea e running in circles because a project is crashing, and they’re trying to say it’s his fault. He just says, “OK. So, now we know the problem. How about we spend our time on finding the solution?” It doesn’t bother him that the people who backed him when it seemed like a good idea are the ones who are saying it’s all his fault. He just knows it’s a good idea and that he can make it work, so, that’s where he puts his energy.

Sometimes, around here, getting what you need for a project depends a lot of office politics or who you’re buddies with. Rudy doesn’t think it should be that way, so when he asks for something, he doesn’t always get it as fast as another guy might. But he doesn’t go stomping around and trying to bully people. He just says, “Well, I’ll be here when you get a chance.” Then he just waits, sometime right there. People ask him what he’s waiting for, he tells them. After a while, it makes the person look so bad that they have to get him what he needs just so it doesn’t look like they’re totally incompetent.

With us, it’s like they say about war. Truth is the first casualty. When there’s trouble, people will try to cover themselves by giving their own version of the situation. But not Rudy. I say to him that so-and-so is spreading lies about him or that somebody is trying to get him because they don’t like him. I ask him shouldn’t he do something to fight back? He says he won’t let someone else force him to be a liar, and it’s his choice who he’s mad at or who he doesn’t like, and he won’t let other people decide for him. But that doesn’t make him holier than thou. He’s got emotions like everybody else, and when he makes a mistake, he gets upset and angry same as any of us. But when things go right, he doesn’t go around talking about how smart he is.