Heroic Dips***

"Don't talk to Pete. He is a dipshit." In another era of my professional life, I read this love-note on an e-mail from a disgruntled client to her boss. I am unsure whether I was copied intentionally – but I am sure it gave her a certain amount of pleasure that I got to read what she thought of me. At that time of my life, I was part of an international sales-force of a company that did business on 5 continents. And a month before I am called a dipshit – I was celebrated as the highest performing sales-person Among hundreds of sales people around the globe. In fact, they give me a bunch of money and big, fat prize for being so great. The Divine likes to remind me: The distance between hero and dipshit is the length of time it takes to read a two-sentence e-mail.