People say stupid things. People make mistakes. People often don’t follow the advice they give.
To this extent, on occassion, most of us are all lowercase dickheads.
This site is inspired by the uppercase Dickheads.
These Dickheads kind that turn up to work every day, moan about how much they hate their job and do nothing about it. They gossip about other employees, blame others for bad work they’ve done and annoy everyone in their vicinity. This isn’t an exhaustive list of ‘Dickheadery’.
As Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said when defining porn: “I know it when I see it”.
You walk into any factory or office and ask a sample group of staff, “who are the dickheads here?” More often than not, the same names would come back – being a capital D ‘Dickhead’ can be difficult to define, but most people know one when they see one.
Businesses can succeed, fail or flatline and over two decades, my own company bounced backwards and forwards through all three stages. When I was flatlining I didn’t know I had Dickheads. When I was failing I knew they were there, but didn’t know how to deal with them. And it was only once I got rid of them, that I truly succeeded.
So this site is about dealing with the big Dickheads in your life. It’s about recognising when you’re being one yourself. And it’s about small incremental improvements you can make to be a better person and run a better business. A business (and life) with No Dickheads.
Jack OAT
Jack OAT is a pseudonym as the real author of this site doesn’t want his opinions to burn any bridges to the corporate world he still inhabits. Also he feels his tone and general swearyness might upset his Mum.