-: Work ethic is one of the most important attributes
anybody can have, and so the first question is,
are you willing to work hard, and not everybody is.
That's actually one of the reasons
why I like to hire college athletes, because
they tend to have balanced both sports and academics,
and so they have to work hard
in order to make it through that or you don't survive, but,
I think working hard is really essential.
And that doesn't mean, necessarily, workin' 80 hours a week,
because that is unsustainable.
And so working hard is, when you get there in the morning,
are you to the task and are you really focused
on gettin' through as much as you can get through today?
Or are you just punchin' the clock,
working from eight to five, right?
And so, I'll take somebody
that works really hard, eight to three,
over somebody that's punchin' the clock, seven to five,
because they're gonna produce a lot more,
and then the second part of work ethic is working smarter.
When I see people who look at the problem
that they've been workin' on and they self-correct
by doing something to make it better,
to make their work more efficient,
then that's even the next level up, right,
where not only am I working hard but I'm working smarter,
and those are the folks that generally get
the extra look for promotion, and those are the folks
I want leading my teams, they're the ones
that are both working hard and working smart.