Are You MAD?

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A 2013 Gallup poll found that 70 percent of American workers are disengaged from their jobs.

MAD | Motivated- Aware - Disciplined

I'm guilty as charged, employing the services of a probing headline, but I did so only to shed a smidgen of satire on an otherwise meaningful message. Having dispensed with the formalities; let us rise from what comfortable seats we currently occupy, brew a fresh cup of our finest, slowly steep some tea, and dutifully prepare our motivational beverages of choice. For today, we embrace greatness and meaning in our lives. Paycheck collectors we are not.

We're going to get so MAD, comfortable colleagues will feverishly draft High priority emails to HR bearing the subject line: "Uncomfortable." New rules and expectations will form in our wake. Managers will scramble to issue raises, deliver promotions and rightfully so. We are the visionaries, the master executors, architects for social good, and the moral lighthouses for wayward vessels. Adequate and fair compensation we do deserve. For our ranks serve a higher cause.

Truth be told, sometimes our journey is a lonely and thankless one. We struggle to survive under visionless and superficial cultures.The truly MAD become the menaces to mediocrity, the banes of banal and the archenemies of average. The proverbial “Go Getters”. But, fear not my compatriots. Erase the idea of the lone wolf or further concern yourself with alienating coworkers in your noble fits of madness. Circumstance will change with our rising swells. When executed properly, the madness spreads as easy as Philly cream cheese over a freshly toasted New York bagel. So go ahead. Get MAD as Hades. Make your employees kettle popping MAD. Get the whole office building MAD for that matter.

Kindle the purposeful and virtuous flame. Burn it bright. For the abrupt sounds of franticly closing conference room doors will abound as vestiges of convention desperately seek shelter from responsibilities beyond their pay grades. "Dare not meddle with the Sands of Time. Change not what is broken," they whisper beyond hollowed doors.The noble pursuit of fulfillment and meaning in our lives demands a certain level of stubbornness, sangfroid, and a collective madness that would make Henry the VIII look like a choirboy. In the end a bit overly dramatic perhaps, but you get the idea.

So join me ...or not. The fact remains. I was born legally MAD ( Middle Name is Allen), and I wouldn't have it any other way. The future is ours to sculpt if we so choose to get MAD enough.

MAD Yet?