Are You Still Not Making Pancakes?
My brother graduated college, moved into his first apartment, and decided to make pancakes. What came out of that pan was burnt on the outside and raw in the middle. A culinary disaster by any measure.
His response? “I will never make pancakes again. If you can’t do it right, don’t do it at all.”
And he didn’t. For years, he simply went without pancakes — unless someone else made them — rather than turn down the heat, try again, and figure it out.
I tell this story because it always gets a laugh. But I also tell it because every leader I have ever worked with has a version of it. Not about pancakes. About something that matters.
