Wear Clean Underwear

In her book, Wear Clean Underwear: Business Wisdom from Mom, Rhonda Abrams makes that case for businesses to get back in touch with the timely wisdom expressed by Mom. The chapters and brief explanations of each follow.

1) Wear clean underwear. What if you get into an accident and someone sees it?

Do the right thing, even if no one can see it.

2) How do you know you don’t like it if you’ve never tried it?

You can’t grow if you don’t try new things.

3) If you keep making that face, some day it will freeze that way.

We become what we do. How we act determines what we are

4) I don’t care who made this mess. Just clean it up!

Don’t pass the buck. Take action instead of placing blame

5) If all your friends jumped off a bridge would you jump off one too?

Don’t be a lemming. Think for yourself. Avoid the management fads.

6) Don’t get too big for your britches.

Bigger is not always better.

7) Say you’re sorry.

Apologize when you make a mistake and try to fix things

8) Don’t judge a book by its cover

Jumping to conclusions can cost you.

9) Share.

Share financial rewards with employees. Share management decisions.

10) It’s not the end of the world.

Failure isn’t necessarily bad.

11) Remember where you came from.

Don’t act like a big shot.

12) Quit picking on each other.

Business should not be a series of adversarial relationships.

13) Eat your vegetables or you won’t get desert.

Focus the things that make our business healthy first. Don’t get distracted by the glitz.

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