Maintaining Good Performance
“The responsibility for maintaining good performance is the employee’s, not the manager’s. The manager’s job is to point out the discrepancy – the employee’s job is to fix it.” – Paul Sims
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We’re All Pretty Lame
“You sit around watching all this stuff happen on TV and the TV sits and watches us do nothing! The TV must think we’re all pretty lame.” – Shannon Wheeler
Continue reading →The Peacemaker’s Promise
“Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.”
Continue reading →Looking for What You Have
“Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.” – Louise Hay
Continue reading →Everything is a Risk
“Everything is a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you.”
Continue reading →Unusual Job Applicants
We’ve all been interviewed for jobs. And, we’ve all spent most of those interviews thinking about what not to do. A survey of top personnel executives of 100 major American corporations asked for stories of unusual behavior by job applicants. … Continue reading →
Go Out and Happen to Things
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Elinor Smith
Continue reading →Take a Step
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Continue reading →Criticism of the President
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Continue reading →Faults are Inevitable So Keep Going
“The inner struggle is extremely difficult for all of us, because we all have faults, severe ones, that we will struggle with forever… It’s wise to accept that faults are inevitable. Factor that in and keep going.” – Alice Walker
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