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I am not a fan of PowerPoint, mainly because I feel my intelligence is being insulted when someone stands up and reads a presentation to me because they are either unprepared or need a crutch. I want to be engaged and involved in a presentation, not bored out of my mind.
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So with that disclaimer, today I sat in on a meeting with a woman who has her son’s activity schedule on a PowerPoint slide. No really; I’m not fibbing. She showed it to me…………..With Pride! She has the next three months all done…………….color coded and everything. I wonder if there is a slide show throughout the house?
I’m thinking this person is also a Crackberry Addict!
Disclaimer: I am not a fan of PowerPoint, mainly because I feel my intelligence is being insulted when someone stands up and reads a presentation to me because they are either unprepared or need a crutch. I want to be engaged and involved in a presentation, not bored out of my mind.
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A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy video While You Were Sleeping So with that disclaimer, today I sat in on a meeting with a woman who has her son’s activity schedule on a PowerPoint slide. No really; I’m not fibbing. She showed it to me…………..With Pride! She has the next three months all done…………….color coded and everything. I wonder if there is a slide show throughout the house?
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So with that disclaimer, today I sat in on a meeting with a woman who has her son’s activity schedule on a PowerPoint slide. No really; I’m not fibbing. She showed it to me…………..With Pride! She has the next three months all done…………….color coded and everything. I wonder if there is a slide show throughout the house?
I’m thinking this person is also a Crackberry Addict!
Readers of my newsletter were introduced to a boy named Chris back in July. You will want to take a moment to refresh yourself with his story before continuing.
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So Sunday morning I pull up to my favorite coffee shop on Cape Cod and there is Chris. He remembers my name, where I was from and says he was hoping he was going to see me.
Seems that the summer was good. He is up to 45 papers per day and was able to buy a laptop with his summer earnings. Seems that offering folks reading with their coffee and telling them what was in the paper paid off handsomely for Chris and The Cape Cod Times.
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A couple comes out of the coffee shop. He buys the newspaper from Chris; she hands him his smoothie.
“Not bad” I said. “They’re buying the paper from you and they’re buying you drinks.”
“He is the best paperboy in the whole world” the woman tells me. “Have you heard his spiel
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I just chuckled and said “Yeah, I’m kinda familiar with it. I was there when he came up with it.”
Chris looked at me with a silly red face. It was priceless.
Readers of my newsletter were introduced to a boy named Chris back in July. You will want to take a moment to refresh yourself with his story before continuing. Click here to read Chris’ story A Good Woman download .
So Sunday morning I pull up to my favorite coffee shop on Cape Cod and there is Chris. He remembers my name, where I was from and says he was hoping he was going to see me.
Seems that the summer was good. He is up to 45 papers per day and was able to buy a laptop with his summer earnings. Seems that offering folks reading with their coffee and telling them what was in the paper paid off handsomely for Chris and The Cape Cod Times.
But here was the best part. I offered to buy him something to drink. He declined; someone inside was buying him something.
A couple comes out of the coffee shop. He buys the newspaper from Chris; she hands him his smoothie.
“Not bad” I said. “They’re buying the paper from you and they’re buying you drinks.”
“He is the best paperboy in the whole world” the woman tells me. “Have you heard his spiel.”
I just chuckled and said “Yeah, I’m kinda familiar with it. I was there when he came up with it.”
Chris looked at me with a silly red face. It was priceless.
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So Sunday morning I pull up to my favorite coffee shop on Cape Cod and there is Chris. He remembers my name, where I was from and says he was hoping he was going to see me.
Seems that the summer was good. He is up to 45 papers per day and was able to buy a laptop with his summer earnings. Seems that offering folks reading with their coffee and telling them what was in the paper paid off handsomely for Chris and The Cape Cod Times.
But here was the best part. I offered to buy him something to drink. He declined; someone inside was buying him something.
A couple comes out of the coffee shop. He buys the newspaper from Chris; she hands him his smoothie.
“Not bad” I said. “They’re buying the paper from you and they’re buying you drinks.”
“He is the best paperboy in the whole world” the woman tells me. “Have you heard his spiel.”
I just chuckled and said “Yeah, I’m kinda familiar with it. I was there when he came up with it.”
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So just looking at the consumption piece, here’s what it means………………. We used less oil to get things done. We filled our cars when needed. We stayed closer to home. We did not make unnecessary trips. Our life did not come to an end.
So as you can see we don’t need to drill Alaska, we need to drill the above fact into people’s heads.
A phrase heard in the hallways of many companies today is “do more with less.” Don’t Touch If You Ain’t Prayed 2 rip
How encouraging! The people who have come up with that line should be shot. The people who are reverberating those words throughout the organization need to have their dirt smudged window offices taken away from them. Do More With Less? What kind of stupidity is that? How about “get creativc and do more with what you have?”
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It was a typical “networking” evening; some people willing to give information and others hoping to get lots of information while not contributing a whole lot. At points, some people were tuning themselves out; some were tuning others out.
Well I never saw such chaos when the bill came. Should we ask for separate checks? Who should pay for what? Should this one pay more? He didn’t drink? She drank like a fish! I drank too much, let me pay for more.
Just split the damn thing 8 ways!
We’re professionals; business owners. If I pay more than I should, so what. I was not there for dinner, I was there for the advice, friendship, guidance, sharing and idea generation that this dinner event was offering – which I did receive. Thanks Jerry, Bonnie, Ronnie, Robin, Noreen, Juan and Alice! So I probably paid double my meal value; it was my choice not to drink. (I can’t stand wine anyway) I walked away with a great idea, an idea that could be a lot of fun, offer a needed solution to my market and most likely earn me a “few” bucks more than dinner cost. Is that worth an extra $10, $20, $50, $100?
But it reminded me of a dinner event years ago with 9 women – it was a salad bar. When the check came the chatter about who drank what (coffee/soda was not included) was getting insane. I was seated next to a woman named Phyllis. Phyllis was a feisty sixty-something who was a no-nonsense type of woman – I loved her. Phyllis turns to me and she says “this is why I don’t go to dinner with a group of women.” I just laughed as I have seen men do the same thing, but felt it was my obligation to protect the male species. Phyllis takes $20 from me and $20 from Lori, who was seated on her other side. She tosses $60 down the end of the table and tells the group to have a ball fighting over the bill. The three of us got up and left. Twenty minutes later we were in the parking lot talking and laughing – we think the bill was still being discussed inside, or perhaps their disgust with us.
Why do you gather with people? For friendship? networking? information? camaraderie? ideas? Or to fight over a few bucks?
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Okay, this is kinda cool…………. Last week I finally offered myself to the world on Facebook. I’ve had a presence on LinkedIn, but after a short time there I realize it is not social networking; business networking yes, but not social networking; and I still do not know of many people who can trace business back to LinkedIn. Do you?
So I post my Facebook Diamond Dogs download page. I allow Facebook to read my personal database to find people already Facebooked. Not many. Or maybe I know the wrong people? Maybe I’m not connected to the “in” crowd; only the LinkedIn crowd?
But it seems that Vinny was Facebooked and he found me. I received a message from Vinny almost immediately after signing up. Now the question becomes does Vinny spend way too much time on Facebook or was it meant to be????
Vinny and I went to high school together; he was one year ahead of me; sat near each other in calculus. He still looks the same. Sucks when some people don’t age. Although maybe he is posting a picture from high school like people do on dating sites; not that I would know. That night Vinny sees Kenny at his photography exhibit; (you can check out Vinny’s stuff here: http://vrod62.blogspot.com/.) Kenny was a great friend in high school, an usher in my wedding, my FBLA partner; but we all know how things go; people lose touch over time.
So now Kenny contacts me – the bastard still has his hair; although it is graying. Bald or gray? Which would you rather be? Let me know.
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In the matter of three days I am back in touch with three people who I actually liked; and will hopefully see in the near future.
But what does this have to do with anything? I think at times we forget not only how the past shaped us, but who in our past shaped us.
Pluto’s Party move So today I blame Vinny, Kenny and Dave for being a part of my refreshing sarcasm, playful attitude, and irreverence. Thanks boys. My audiences thank you too.
And for the rest of you…………go get a presence on Facebook. I’ll be your friend, but it is very cool to see who in your past might come back to haunt you.
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Third Shift. Most avoid it. Many spend years working their way off of it. Yet there is one person who loves third shift…………………………………
The other day I met Steve. Steve is a third shift worker. He works with the handicapped. And has he put it to me the other day, he spends his night changing diapers.
Now while some reading this might think his comment is horrible, let me offer some perspective. I have had the opportunity to speak to Fortune 10 Corporations, small businesses of 20 employees, and everything in between. If you ever need some perspective, live a day in the life of a health care or health and human services provider. Now I am in no way denouncing what employees of Fortune 10 companies do, but I would like to see them roll over a handicapped developmentally disabled person at 2:00 AM and change their diaper – yes literally change the diaper. So many people think they’ve got it tough. I don’t know.
But here was my favorite part of the conversation. I asked Steve to come clean and really tell me why he stays on third shift all these years later when opportunities have been plentiful to work a more traditional workday. He said, “Rich, on third shift I don’t have to worry about my handicapped co-workers, and making sure I am not part of the trouble they are forever getting themselves and others into.”
Yikes! But perhaps true? Maybe third shift has its benefits?
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