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Foot on the pedal – never ever false metal
Engine running hotter than a boiling kettle
My job’s ain’t a job – it’s a damn good time
Beastie Boys ♦ No Sleep till Booklyn
Are you a 9 to 5 slave? Do you hold down the widget segment of the industry, and make parts for the sexier product? If you feel that way about your position or status, you need to rethink what you do or why you are doing it. This can’t be drudgery, it must be a love. No one or entity has true success without passion.
The reality is that it is impossible to convince others to buy your product or service without selling them on the enthusiasm that you have for it. Investors and executives gravitate to the positive momentum of those who are convinced of the love affair that they have found the elixir of life and corporate success. I hope you are sending out that message . . . because I bet you dollars-to-donuts that the market leader in your game is having a damn good time!
BPM TAKEAWAY#12:
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PASSION SELLS
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YOUR VOCATION MUST BE YOUR AVOCATION – work as hobby
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The Beats Per Management collective (“The BPM”) is curator for C.O.D.E Mizell and supports the repurposing of hip hop content for professional success. BPM consists of former Hip Hop junkies now living in the corporate world. BPM members carried milk crates of 12” records when “bpm” used to mean beats-per-minute for mixing music, now BPM members focus on Excel spreadsheets, legal briefs, power points, whiteboard-scribbling and business plans.
BPM cannot shake the instant recall of Hip Hop lyrics. The good news is that BPM realized that these lyrics had application to its daily management concerns.
BPM does not claim to have captured the true artist intent in its lyrical analysis, BPM seeks only to celebrate the role that hype-lyrics can play in the daily grind to get business done in the corporate world. This is not a glorification of urban pop-culture or a debate on the poetic merits of rap, we leave that to the literary critics and socio-political commentators.
If you disagree with BPM send us your spin on the lyrics. We have an open mind, and hope you do.
The “BPM Takeaways” dispense reminders for your business day. Hopefully, the next time a referenced-cut is heard on the radio, it will trigger your “Takeaway” and not just flashbacks to the music video.
A quote-a-day will make you a better executive. BPM hopes to keep all advice short and to the point – Executive Summary Style.
Technically the lyrics are “raps” and the culture of the genre is “hip hop” but lets not get overly technical -- substance not form that controls here. The point is you are putting that untapped knowledge to use.
And to think they said that Hip-Hop would get you nowhere…puhhleasse.
-Roscoe Waxx for BPM
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