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Steve Harvey’s Shocking Memo to Talk Show Staff Surfaces: ‘Do Not Approach Me’
Variety ^ | 5/10/17 | Elizabeth Wagmeister

Posted on 05/11/2017 4:44:16 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

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To: thoughtomator

You may be right, as a performer, I doubt he ever recieved and training or education on leading and managing people. Not surprised he developed bad habits.


101 posted on 05/11/2017 12:13:17 PM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

He’s describing a textbook example of organic emergent human behaviors in an unmanaged environment. The man needs a competent executive to manage activities grown beyond his personal ability to deal with.

First thing that executive would do is make sure people have the information they need to do their jobs so they don’t have to accost the big guy in the halls to get it.

This was actually the correct letter to write, in spirit at least. But it needed to come from someone else to be seen as something other than petulance.


102 posted on 05/11/2017 12:24:33 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: thoughtomator

I do hope that someone he trusts comes to the same conclusion.


103 posted on 05/11/2017 12:29:31 PM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Honestly??

He seems like a very nice, friendly man. He says he has had that quality of his taken full advantage of. I’m ok with this and have lost zero respect for him.

He isn’t saying “Have the low level staffers never give eye contact” or anything Hillary has done. She didn’t even want a Hello in the hallway.

The guy deserves some down time in his dressing room. He deserves to not be accosted with desperate questions in the halls and constantly asked for favors. I’m good with him making sure people know there are times not to approach with demands.

Remember: with all those jobs he does, he is a major employer.


104 posted on 05/11/2017 12:36:59 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: ConservaTexan

If y’all remember, he was lambasted for speaking positively of a meeting with Trump shortly after the inauguration. Articles like this are meant to destroy him publicly. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this. If you disagree, feel free to send me your phone # so I can contact you anytime I want.


Bingo. This is in VARIETY, a publication that would welcome dismembering the president on tv.

Call me any time. I just might not answer, lol.


105 posted on 05/11/2017 12:39:11 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: thoughtomator

Maybe he wants to do this himself, rather than hire a yapping weasel to walk in front of him, clearing the way. I don’t blame him.


106 posted on 05/11/2017 12:40:55 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: JimRed

>>Like him or not, his success has earned him the right to set his own rules. Those who don’t like it can seek other employment.<<

Frankly, at the last normal job I had I would have given ANYTHING to send out the same communication (substitute “office” for “dressing room”).


107 posted on 05/11/2017 2:40:16 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Sounds like a businessman who has been taken advantage of by jerks that work for him. Streamline his time, root out those who want favoritism done for them and get the job done. Hmmm, sounds Presidential for some reason.


108 posted on 05/11/2017 3:00:38 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Sounds like a businessman who has been taken advantage of by jerks that work for him. Streamline his time, root out those who want favoritism done for them and get the job done. Hmmm, sounds Presidential for some reason.


109 posted on 05/11/2017 3:05:57 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: jch10
I did. I knew of him, just not his face.

Thanks. If you ever get spare time jch10, watch some of his other short clips. He is a staunch supporter of our U.S. Military!!

110 posted on 05/11/2017 6:30:18 PM PDT by houeto
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To: Yaelle

Maybe that kind of poor management instinct is the reason why he has a problem in the first place.

There’s a reason executives never do this - it doesn’t solve the root causes of the problem. As is, it will simply cause his organization to become dysfunctional in other ways to compensate.


111 posted on 05/11/2017 6:52:34 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: ican'tbelieveit

Some mornings are kind of like this.

https://youtu.be/RBnMt9iUwI0?t=27m13s


112 posted on 05/13/2017 5:25:20 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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