I’m Babu. Will You be My Jerry Seinfeld?

By Michelle Malay Carter on October 2, 2007 

I’m endlessly enthralled with managerial leadership and organization design.? I love to write. “You should be blogging,” I’ve been told.?? “If you write it, they will come!”

So here it is, after some study and coaching, I’ve soft-launched Mission Minded Management.? I’ve got a decent-sized mailing list in my back pocket for the official launch, but who wants to visit an empty space?? It’s a bloggers catch-22.? How to attract beginning readership and comments to?gain experience?and work out the technical bugs before I invite all my friends to the party?so they don’t show up to?discover I have spinach in my teeth?

Have you ever entered a restaurant only to find it empty??? You get that sinking feeling that you’ve made a mistake.? It doesn’t matter how good the food is if no one stays to taste it.? It reminds me of a Seinfeld episode?where an inexperienced, enthusiastic but clunky?restaurateur, Babu, has just opened the Dream Cafe. ?He built it, but they did not come.? Jerry Seinfeld takPotential - Calling All Readerses pity upon him, eats there, and offers Babu advice.

Will you be my Jerry?? Make a comment.? Offer some feedback?? You could be creating a legacy for yourself.? Imagine telling your colleagues, “Yea, I subscribed to Mission Minded Management before Mission Minded was cool.”? Time is short.? This is your opportunity to be leading-edge.

I guess I need to get my RSS feed link posted.? Babu and me – enthusiastic but a little clunky.

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4 Responses to “I’m Babu. Will You be My Jerry Seinfeld?”

  1. Adam Schultz on October 2nd, 2007 1:56 pm

    If I remember correctly, Jerry’s advice led to Babu’s deportation. :)

    I love the blog so far and think it is going to be a big hit. I only have a small 3 person company but the concepts you write about effect the way I manage my company on a daily basis.

    Keep up the great work and be careful which Jerry’s you decide to listen to.

  2. Michelle Malay Carter on October 3rd, 2007 6:39 am

    Adam,

    Thanks for the kind words and the advice. It’s wise to ask for advice, but it takes wisdom to know when to follow it.

    Michelle

  3. Rose Malay on October 3rd, 2007 8:33 am

    Great blog, witty, unique and insightful. You must have good genes.

  4. Michelle Malay Carter on October 3rd, 2007 9:17 am

    Thanks Mom,

    I can always depend on you.

    Michelle