“…what is that to you? As for you, follow me.”

Yesterday I wrote of looking right and left and how we compare ourselves to others.  It’s easy to write and talk about it. It’s hard to stop doing. I found myself in a Board meeting yesterday trying to bring a point home and the only way I could do it was to make a comparison to another company. I watched as a number of people were writing down what I had to say.  I hope I didn’t create another false competition.  There is nothing wrong with competition, or even comparing, unless we become obsessed so much on others and how they are doing that we forget who we are ourselves and how well we are doing, how we can get better internally, and never full of bragging or arrogance when we actually do exceed those in our peer set. It’s about attitude and how we carry ourselves.  One of Major League Baseballs greatest of all time, Derek Jeter, announced his retirement yesterday. It was not lost on me, or many others who I read, that Jeter made his announcement without comparison, fanfare, or any hubris. Imagine if our companies and CEOs were more like Derek Jeter.

In church a few weeks ago at Reality LA the pastor said that there were the four things to do to stop comparing: