SHOW UP: Sometimes, you just got to show up. In the flesh. Even if — especially if — you don’t want to. Who postulated, “Eighty percent of success is just showing up”?
Sadly, it was Woody Allen. Some say Allen “stole” that line from Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Harvard Business School leadership guru. She boiled successful leadership down to six rules. Number One: “Just show up.” Mark Twain — as always — took a dimmer view, concluding that the keys to success on Planet America were “ignorance and confidence.”
I mention this because Twain, Moss Kanter,and Allen would all be rolling over in their, graves — even though Kanter and Allen are still very much alive — because of who did not show up at last Wednesday’s California Coastal Commission showdown over Sable Oil’s shenanigans, specifically for doing major pipeline repair work without the necessary permits. Those hijinks — seen by the commission as a combination of open defiance coupled with bald-faced disrespect — got Sable hit upside the head with an $18 million fine…