1. Weird Things I Did When I Was
ASCM
This is the TIME of your life!
You get to learn the ropes of the
toughest discipline on the PLANET
LEADERSHIP!
Steve Remedios
2. ONE
Had everyone write out their resignations!
Then I wrote mine…
Then I tore them all up!
RIGHT THERE
RIGHT THEN
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3. TWO
Worked a market without anyone!
NO TSI
NO RS
NO RSSM
Picked up a few bills.
Ran a case study contest in the next JC
Meeting…
Made the team decide…
Steve Remedios
4. THREE
Showed up at an RS point in KARWAR
At 8:30 in the morning
When no one had a clue as to where I was
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5. FOUR
Banned paper from JC Meetings
NO PAPER
NOT A SCRAP
(I was jocularly said to gel my hair to
enable blue-tooth reception!)
Steve Remedios
6. FIVE
Used the SURVIVOR format to decide who would
get transferred at the end of the year.
The team decided.
Not me. If you were on the boat, and not rowing
the best you could, then this was not the boat
for you.
Steve Remedios
7. SIX
Told my team that I was likely to be ill
tempered in the next month because I
had broken off with my girl friend!
And then started to CRY!
IN FRONT OF ALL OF THEM
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8. SEVEN
Did not allow 2 TSIs who came late for my
first meeting to attend that meeting.
THEY STOOD OUTSIDE ALL DAY
(No one ever came a minute late for a
meeting I ran, after that)
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9. EIGHT
Made it mandatory for everyone to switch
their phones off from 9:30 to 5:30
(On a random check, a TSI swore that he
had switched it off and it rang only when
I had called!)
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10. NINE
Ran a day long classroom training session
for my stockists.
Had them sit in a class room for a full day
and made them take tests at the end of
it! Yes, the stockists!
Steve Remedios
11. TEN
Got drunk one night after reading all the
depressing things my team had to say
about me. Called every one of them
between 10:30 and 1:00 in the morning
and said I was really sorry, and that
things would be different!
I CRIED THAT DAY TOO!
Steve Remedios
12. ELEVEN
Rewarded an RSSM who had the courage
to say what he felt.
“Hotline to ASCM”
If a RSSM thought a TSI/SO/ASM wasn’t
rowing fast enough he could voice his
dissent!
Steve Remedios
13. TWELVE
Refused to do a quarter end.
PERIOD
I turned in my laptop!
I went home!
(I was in a cold sweat)
I am still in HLL!
Steve Remedios
14. THIRTEEN
The Crucible
Let me tell you a story.
After this day, I never had to justify
anything I asked for. Because I knew I
had their hearts…
Steve Remedios
15. IN SUM
Listen to your heart!
Be human, its easy to like people with
REAL feelings
If you are not being a freak, you are
missing a trick
Its OK to cry!
If they don’t love you as a friend, they will
not walk that extra mile for you
Steve Remedios
16. AND FOR THE DOUBTERS…
And those of you who like a little
theory and quadrants thrown
in…
Steve Remedios
