The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

Chapter 6

The Rules

George arrived even earlier the next day at the bus stop. He sat on the bench and thought about work yesterday and how he had wanted to make an impact and get things moving in the right direction but as usual one crisis had led to another, and he and his team had spent most of the day dealing with conflict and putting out fires rather than getting something done. George thought about each member of his team and how each one contributed to his growing problems. I should fire every one of them. The thought made him smile but then reality set in and he knew there was no way he could do that. If anything he was the one who would be leaving the company before any of them. Besides, they weren’t bad people. He had even hired a few of them. They had just lost their way somehow, he thought. Like a bad marriage, he figured, where you can’t finger any one thing as the cause, yet you know it just isn’t right. George was in such deep thought that he didn’t hear Bus #11 pull up. When he looked up he saw Joy once again at the wheel and her smile made him smile.

“Weeellllll look aheeeeeerr. Look who we have here today. How you doing, Sugar? I didn’t think I would see you again.”

“Me neither,” answered George. “I was on the bus yesterday, too, but you weren’t here. Where were you?” he asked.

“Tuesday’s my day off, Sugar. It’s the day I take care of my sick father. He can’t remember ...