Which Christmas will be our last as a full-time employee?
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101 days later
Christmas evening 2012, 9:50pm…
A promise is a promise.
Overcoming adversity is overcoming adversity.
Ridiculous is the new remarkable.
Remarkable is when people make remarks, like I have been – since opening Seth Godin’s new 800+ page behemoth book, “This Might Work”.
It arrived from China a few weeks ago via Amazon. Didn’t open the box until three days ago.
Chapin and I gave it to Cheryl as a “fun-gift”, for no real reason than simply because it is such a ridiculous book.
Gigantic, 19+ pounds. Not for sale in stores nor online. Months ago I pre-ordered it, expecting it to arrive in March 3013.
Ha!
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Merry Christmas From Mid Life Celebration, Santa, And A Very Special Little Boy
Merry Christmas to you and yours. If you don’t celebrate Christmas, may this day be filled with all the things you hold near and dear to your heart. And may the gifts of faith, hope and love unite us all in a peace and comfort that surpasses all understanding.
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Most Organizations Don’t Capitalize On The Power Of Signs To Capture Their Employees Hearts
Great civilizations, iconic legendary corporate giants, long standing religions, they all share their genius, purposefully using icons and phrases to win the hearts of their employees. Every small business entrepreneur, every manager, every leader, ought to be taking note. It’s common sense, but not common.
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Tough Love
Yesterday’s Christmas gift from jungle jeff to you was probably not what you expected, was it?
Tough love is what our son’s Kindergarten teacher called it.
A college roommate that became a US Marshal, handling some exceptionally criminal minds, told me that he would sometimes have to tell the people he was “guarding”, “Don’t mistake kindness for weakness.”
Our US Marshal friend is a Dad, a husband, and a really nice person. But he knows some quick moves that’ll bring the biggest brute to his knees in seconds.
The world is full of very competitive people and very competitive businesses. And there’s a phrase, survival of the fittest, that works in nature, and it works in business.
People forget this. Or, they ignore it or deny it.
I can’t. You can’t. No one who wants to be excellent can be unclear of this natural law.
This is why I’m upping the ante at jungle jeff. Not by an unbearable amount, but more than 2009.
Almost forgot, if you trek on over to jeffnoel.org , and read just a few entries, you’ll see a much softer side of tough love.