[tortoise]

Anybody who cannot stay on top of their emotions has no business in business. It is dog eat dog, nothing personal. No company rates that kind of attention. Even in business where it was essentially family, we were always soldiers and I've expected nothing less of my employees.

[jocon307]

I mean no offense, but your comment and your tagline seem to be in conflict.

[steve8714]

Business is often personal. When your livelihood and your family's lifestyle depend on your esrnings, it is personal. The trick is to turn away from the negative emotions while remembering the object lesson of the event.

[CindyDawg]

I hate seeing guys cry all the time.

[luckystarmom]

What happens when you get bad news at work, like someone dying?

I don't think people thought less of me when I went into my office to cry while my brother was going through surgery for cancer.

I don't think people thought less of me when I had tears in my eyes when I had to tell about my 3 miscarriages.

I certainly didn't think less of anyone for crying in the workplace if it was for a good reason.

[Windsong]

your tag is actually a misquote. Watch Blade Runner again and listen more carefully.

[mikegi]

Anybody who cannot stay on top of their emotions has no business in business. It is dog eat dog, nothing personal.

I disagree. My one-man company came under legal attack by one several orders of magnitude larger. The founder of that company deceptively used a third party in order to get in touch with me. I was in deep depression about the whole thing until I noticed that they included my personal information in their legal documents. I saw that as a direct threat to my wife and daughter. It flipped a switch in my mind and I became motivated like you would not believe. It took superhuman effort to develop my new software technology and I have done so, thanks to them.

So, I'd have to say that intense emotion has its place in business.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Anybody who cannot stay on top of their emotions has no business in business. It is dog eat dog, nothing personal. No company rates that kind of attention. Even in business where it was essentially family, we were always soldiers and I've expected nothing less of my employees.

I show emotion at work all the time. In Conroe when that rig burned down around me, or in the Gulf when one of the roughnecks lost all the fingers on his right hand, or the mine riot in South Africa, or the time SWAPO rebels shot at the rig in Namibia. Yea all kinds of damn emotion.

Perhaps it's easier to contain yourself in a nice climate controlled office?