A short, informal YouTube monologue by Kenny Chapman (the "blue collar coach") using a baseball stadium and assigned seats as a metaphor for structuring a business or life and choosing who occupies each role. Chapman urges listeners to design their "stadium," pick seat types and assign people intentionally, and to replace mismatched people when roles no longer fit.
Foreign. Can we talk about butts this Friday? Kenny Chapman, the blue collar coach. Okay, don't, don't hang up. Don't cut me off. I'm talking about buts, meaning that. Think about this for a moment. You walk into a baseball stadium. The lovely Christian and I go to a spring training game. My beloved Padres that are terrible. Stay with me. This has to do with your business in life. We walk into the spring training stadium and we have a ticket. You have seat 4, 115, whatever it is. And you go up and there's somebody in your seat. And you're going, wait a minute, you're kind of in the wrong seats. You have this interaction going. Well, wait. And everybody looks at their ticket and you figure out who's supposed to be in that seat. Now, I want you to think about your business. I want you to think about your life. I want you to think about the stadium that you're creating, because you have the ability to create any kind of a stadium that you want. Then from that, you get to decide what type of seats you put in that stadium. Do you want the row seats, the bench seats? No seat assignment, everybody just bunched up, first come, first serve, or do you want to come more comfortable? Maybe there's a cup holder there. Maybe they even elevate or recline a little bit or whatever that might be, right? Depends on different level of comfort. Then once you have the seats decided, now you get to decide the person that goes into each one of those seats. You get to decide who goes into seat row four, 1:15, whatever that looks like. And guess what? Sometimes you hand out the wrong seat when somebody comes through the box office, and that's okay. And you make a change. And sometimes people purchase that seat and they go sit there for a while, a few innings, whatever it is. By the seventh inning stretch, they're not so comfortable anymore. And it's not a seat that fits them any longer. And it's time for a new player person in that seat. What about you? How are you looking at your situation, your business, the rows, the seats, and the buts that you choose? I'm Kenny Chapman, the blue collar coach. Until we talk, choose your butts selectively and make it a better than fantastic weekend. We'll see you soon.
