A Coaching Session with Zeus

Another "fly-on-the-wall" encounter, this time with the OG mover and shaker, the Greek God Zeus.

ZEUS: Coach! Where have you been?!

COACH: I’m here now.

ZEUS: Any trouble with security? They really don’t Iike mortals using the executive elevator.

COACH: All fine. I was in the manifest and they shot me up lightning fast. How are you?

ZEUS: Busy! I have so many projects all over the planet, most recently in your neck of the woods.

COACH: Ah, so you were behind this latest election?

ZEUS: I did my thing.

COACH: And how would you define your “thing?”

ZEUS: I give the people what they want, you know. Unless it’s what I want and I just take it.

COACH: Fascinating. And how did you give the people what they wanted?

ZEUS: Tactically, I helped them fill in their ovals on their election ballots. The ones who were questioning their conscience, I just guided their hand to where their greed was. Politics is about pocketbooks. “It’s the economy, stupid!” (I workshopped that one back in the day with Carville!)

COACH: Sounds like you were micromanaging again.

ZEUS: ‘Zounds! ‘Twas not. You always paint me as some kind of “chaos broker.”

COACH: I’m just bringing back a value we were working on.

ZEUS: Control?

COACH: Not that one. Remember, we were working on “Harmony?” You were interested in more workplace stability.

ZEUS: Right! Well this situation crossed my desk and I had little self-control. Fie! I should have txted you for a pop-up session!

COACH: What’s done is done. What can you do now?

ZEUS: I’m not sure.

COACH: Are there ways to de-escalate?

ZEUS: Maybe.

COACH: Perhaps you can demonstrate a more measured style of leading.

ZEUS: I see. Keep my lightning bolts in their basket and let the mortals work it out without me?

COACH: It’s a suggestion.

ZEUS: Civilized. Dare I say, “professional.”

COACH: Sometimes the best move for a leader is to observe without reacting.

ZEUS: Forsooth, you speaketh the truth!

COACH: I do my best.

ZEUS: So let this administration play out with little to no involvement?

COACH: I would say observe and see where there are opportunities to do some good. These folks won’t need any help fomenting chaos.

ZEUS: True dat. And besides, I have a lot on my plate with Hera and what-not.

COACH: Now that’s work for your marriage counselor!

ZEUS: Indeed, Coach! By the by, I think I owe you a few drachmas. What’s your Venmo?

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