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Working in Wicked Way

Guest post by: Enrico Varella

Article Overview: Being wicked may not be a useful personal or professional core value. Instead, be wickedly creative or wickedly funny (when things do not go as you have planned it). Be wickedly friendly when others play stranger, or a wicked leader when a meeting goes nowhere and you take charge of getting the results.

Working in Wicked Way

The first time I heard the word wicked differently was from my friend, Michael’s son. He used the expression on a trick I showed him and his brother. That was when I realized that the word wicked has different meanings, that it need not be negative and nefarious in intent. Let your language serve you, and not just you serving the language. Lead in your language, or languish in despair over its complexities.

Wicked is a Broadway musical that was launched in 2004. Popular TV musical drama, GLEE featured this song as well as the original lead actresses Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth. The two also made cameo appearances in a few episodes of Season 1 of GLEE. Wicked is the precursor story of the two sister witches in The Wizard of Oz. I missed watching this musical on my last trip to New York, but endeavour to do so on my next trip to the Big Apple. If you watch on YouTube, the lead singers of this production were wicked! The range of vocals to achieve the song Defying Gravity requires serious vocal chops to deliver with conviction.

Being wicked may not be a useful personal or professional core value. Instead, be wickedly creative or wickedly funny (when things do not go as you have planned it). Be wickedly friendly when others play stranger, or a wicked leader when a meeting goes nowhere and you take charge of getting the results.

Business Leadership Lessons: What have you done recently at work that was wickedly beneficial to your team? How many wickedly clever ideas have you proposed to your clients that made them pay generous attention? What have you done for your colleagues and clients, that made them sit up, and exclaim: ‘That’s wicked!’

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