Rush Limbaugh, Fancy Plants & Disruptive Thinking
What I'm listening to: U2, All That You Can't Leave Behind , 2000 When I Look At The World In 1992 I was hustling office plants from a rusted old Chevy van that barely ran for a fly-by-night business called "Fancy Plants". Every morning I would show up at work where we would get to pick our van and plants to take with us based on when we showed up for work. Basically, we would go from business to business in various areas and try to get them to buy plants from us off of the van. When we returned home at night, we were charged $15 for each plant missing or damaged. Whatever was left over was our pay for the day. Yes, it was just as shady as it sounds - so I didn't stay very long. But I very quickly picked up on something from my co-workers. They were all vying for certain areas/territories that they felt they owned and had "built". In reality, it was nothing but a seniority system. So I very quickly did some math and realized that I could drive up to 90...