Culture Schlock

This is, for all intents and purposes, a method by which I can introduce myself in this forum.

Ever work for corporate?  Yeah.  Answering to “the man” and thinking that you can probably do a better job of running the company than this idiot?  Yeah.  Me, too.

Well, now I am “the man,” (and Diana’s is “the woman,” lest we leave that out of my little missive) but I’m not keen on running the company without help.  The level of decision-making in any company has everything to do with how well the rest of the company both agrees with your decisions and follows policies you set.  But I digress (I do this a lot, but bear with me).

What I have learned in my years of running a business, the business of photography, cannot be summed up in a nutshell or a few terse paragraphs.  It would take a book… at least.  But I’m not in a writing mood.  Instead, I’m kind of a blogger at heart.  I love explaining things, mostly in a classroom environment.

But here’s something you cannot get from a book, classroom or even buy owning a business for a couple of years.  It’s the importance of treating people fairly, openly and honestly.  Don’t pretend you care… you must actually care.  Don’t pretend to want the best possible product and service… you must commit yourself to that goal for each and every client.  And that takes years of work… a true commitment to your own values, even if you have to change those values to match the goal.

The bottom line here is that I am truly committed to my craft, my clients, and my outlook on education.  I’m way beyond the schlock of corporate politics… it doesn’t exist here.  I have the last nine years of this being my only job to thank for that.

More of what I have to say will continue my thoughts on how this blog will evolve.

But know this one thing… you will not be uninformed.

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