It’s been a serious week… outsourcing, layoffs, and even a comparison of accounting standards. I don’t know about you, but I need a break. Something different… sort of like when we told you about the heavy heads of consultants.
I’ll keep it gender neutral [yeah, right… ]. I’m sure all of us have experienced the joy of looking forward to a night on the town with our significant other [wife] when we were halted before even leaving the front door. Where is [she]? What is taking [her] so long? Hey don’t we all know about the waste of waiting? We could be inhaling some sushi by now!
It’s usually the hair. A quick glance in the hallway mirror apparently indicated the need for some additional primping. I rapidly learned that removing the mirror was a band-aid, and not the root cause. The root cause is hair style.
I don’t have the patience to spend hours, or even minutes, getting ready in the morning. Aside from the joy of the hot shower, everything else can’t happen fast enough. Throw on a pair of jeans, sneakers, and the next Tommy 
Bahama shirt in line in the closet and I’m outta there. As an aside, my wife likes to joke that I’m "all Tommy, all the time." Perhaps every day is a bit much, but in the middle of a hectic day it is rather recalibrating to look down and see that tag that says "Relax."
My own hair style began as a rather shaggy look in school. That didn’t tak
e much time in the mornings, but it wasn’t exactly professional once I entered the workforce. So eventually it morphed into a more refined, but longer look. No, those obviously aren’t photos of me. The new look worked, but it still took some time in the mornings. So over the last couple years it has changed again to the very short look. Very short. Jump out of the shower and it’s dry in about three seconds. 
Every [little] hair perfectly aligned. I like to call it my lean look. No waste of overprocessing going on. Contrast that to Fabio… he must have some extra time on his hands.
Women could do something similar. Imagine the time it must have taken for the old
Britney Spears to do her hair. Hours? Of course I’m sure she didn’t do it herself, so she was probably figuring out what wild party to go to while "her people" did her up. But still. So I wonder if she accidentally read Lean Thinking and that did get her to thinking… with the result being her new look. And 
the big question… will she go back? Once you experience the joy of having a chunk of extra time in the morning, time to sip a cup of joe while reading blogs of course, it is hard to give it up.
But I guess I’m glad my wife’s ‘do doesn’t look like the new Britney, so I’ve learned to be more patient. And that gets me wondering… from the perspective of my customer [wife?], does my hair style create value? Does Fabio’s? Should I be worried?
Bill McMann says
I hear you brother! Give it another couple years and you’ll go full-blown bald. Hopefully by choice. Too much damn testosterone in my case.
Rock on.
Diana McCalister says
Kevin you have nothing to worry about with Fabio. Neither does an ugly toad for that matter. I’ll take short over long any day. Well… perhaps I should rephrase that…
Diana
Richard S. says
Oh, boy………I just spit all over my coffee this morning reading Diana’s post. Thank God we can still poke (no pun intended)a little fun at ourseleves!
Just for the record I used to have Ted Nugent type hair; Wild, long, and curly-frizzy. Thirty years later and I look more like Yule Brenner. I least I do get my head rubbed from time to time. :)
Jane says
Hair doesn’t have to take that long, it depends on how your hair is styled. Obviously, if you have longer hair, it’ll take a little more time trying to pin it up or trying to straighten it, yet if you have shorter hair, it wouldn’t take as long ’cause you wouldn’t have nearly as many styles to choose from. It also depends on the stylist you go to for your hair.
Whenever I go out, the hair is the easiest to take care of aside from putting on my shoes. I think you can get easy hair tips from watching “Shear Genius”. Has anyone seen or heard of that show that airs on Bravo every Wednesday at 10pm where the stylists had to style their client’s hair so it’s easily transfered from morning/work hair to evening hair.
Right now, they’re giving away a trip to NYC for an ultimate make-over. I know this because I work with them. Check out http://condenast.eprize.net/alluresheargenius/?affiliate_id=1d and Good Luck!!!