Recently, a large corporation hired several cannibals to increase their diversity, You are all part of our team now,” said the Human Resources rep during the welcoming briefing. “You get all the usual benefits and you can go to the cafeteria for something to eat, but please don’t eat any employees”.

The cannibals promised they would not.

Four weeks later their boss remarked, “You’re all working very hard and I’m satisfied with your work. We have noticed a marked increase in the whole company’s performance. However, one of our secretaries has disappeared. Do any of you know what happened to her?”
The cannibals all shook their heads, “No.”

After the boss had left, the leader of the cannibals said to the others, “Which one of you idiots ate the secretary?”

A hand rose hesitantly. “You fool!” the leader continued. “For four weeks we’ve been eating managers and no one noticed anything. But Nooooo, you had to go and eat someone who actually does something!!!”

This is a lesson I have learned the hard way: The higher you are in your career, the less work you can get away with doing.

You wouldn’t believe how many CEOs spend their days in posh restaurants, or how many marketing gurus work only 4 hours per week.

Recently I started reading the world famous “Rich Dad Poor Dad” and the books main message is that in order to become rich, you need to think like a rich person.

Many people believe that a good education and hard work are required to become rich, but the truth is that your way of thinking is key.

I haven’t completed the book yet, and I have also been told to read “The 4 hour work week” by Tim Ferriss.

Listen, nobody likes being eaten by a cannibal, so make sure you are the CEO and not the secretary. Read these two books, and send me an email to : admin@streetlessons.com and I will add you to the exclusive notification list for the blogs that I am a writer at.

Dean

PS: Anyone who read the title of this post and thought they were going to read about porn, is a dirty little rascal.