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LEADERSHIP - Easy as HERDING CATS!!!!

This video was introduced in 2006 by EDS with the tag line “Information, ideas, technology; we make ‘em go where you want them to go.”

That’s what leaders do - get ‘em where you want them to go even when they are bent on going where they want to go.

This is the transcript of the commercial a bit doctored up. Watch the video but use this version of the script!

“This man right here is my great grandfather. He’s the first leader of employees  in our family.

Leading employees … don’t let anybody tell you it’s easy.

Anybody can herd cattle. Holdin’ together smart, inquisitive, creative staff, well, that’s another thing altogether.

Being a leader is probably about the toughest thing I think I’ve ever done.

I got this one this morning, right here. And if you look at his face … it’s just ripped to shreds, you know?

You see the movies, you hear the stories. It’s … I’m livin’ a dream. … Not everyone can do what we do.

I wouldn’t do nothin’ else.

It ain’t an easy job. But when you lead the team, and you ain’t lost a one of ‘em, ain’t a feelin’ like it in the world.”

Wagons ho!