Stop Managing, Start Leading | Hamza Khan | TEDxRyersonU

my name is Hamza and there's three things that you should know about me one I was born in 1987 two I love hip hop and three I'm a horrible boss I'm a horrible boss because I used to be a horrible employee aside from my time in the Canadian Armed Forces I've never completely cooperated with the rules of my traditional work places the Monday to Friday 9: to5 grind just isn't for me I'll never forget the last time that I was called out for being late at work it was very early in my career and I remember showing up one morning at 9:15 a. m. casually strolled in only to find my boss standing beside my desk arms crossed tapping his watch in disapproval H up this is unacceptable I can't remember the last time you were here before 9: well damn good morning to you too sir did I uh miss anything now of course I knew that I hadn't I've been connected to my work in a dozen different ways checked my calendar the night before I'd been on my email all morning I had my notifications on Facebook Twitter WhatsApp or internal messaging system if my clients or my team wanted to get a hold of me they would have already done so and that's when my boss hit me with this amza stock market opened 15 minutes ago what did my work have to do with the stock market this was a marketing agency I was doing graphic design I saw what was happening I was being sacrificed at the altar of office discipline so I asked a rhetorical question did something happen that I should know about and of course I knew nothing had happened I'd been on Twitter all morning and I looked at the trending topics and the only thing newsworthy was Kanye West and Kim Kardashian attending a Jay-Z concert the night before and that's when my boss hit me with this hza you being late is bad for morale it looks like you aren't pulling your weight around here ooh that one stung that one hurt and that's the moment I decided to quit the insinuation that I wasn't producing because I wasn't physically Tethered to my desk was a bit too much for my pride anyone who knows me knows that I'm highly productive I'm a consumate team player but apparently I didn't look the part so rather than go out with a dramatic bang I left with a little bit of a sneaky whimper for my last two weeks on the job I would show up early show up every morning at 8:55 a.

m. and I would sit at my desk and do one thing and one thing only I'm Marathon movies yeah naturally I started with the Godfather great place to start I made my way over to Star Wars and what Marathon would be complete without the Lord of the Rings extended version of course now every day I would leave at 5:00 p. m.

I pass by his desk at 500 p. m.