Archive for February, 2006
Friday, February 24th, 2006
Taking Responsibility
Have you observed that almost everyone is willing to accept recognition for the achievements in their life, but few ever consider that they are ones responsible for their failures?
Most underachievers tend to blame the events or other people for things in their lives that they do not like. There are plenty of over crowded [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Principles of Good Business by Tom Fairbanks
Monday, February 13th, 2006
Power in the Response
In the days when ice cream sundaes cost much less than they do today, a young boy entered a coffee shop and sat at a table. As the waitress put a glass of water in front of him, he asked: “How much is an ice cream sundae?â€
“Fifty cents,†replied the waitress. The little boy [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Doing Good Business by Tom Fairbanks
Thursday, February 9th, 2006
Assumptions
Throughout my life I have come to recognize some inexplicable truths about life and human nature:
There is supremacy greater than man, and I am not it.
People are more interested in themselves than they are others.
A prophet is without honor in his own land.
We suspect that which we do not understand.
The only perfect person I have [...]
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
Common Unity - Trust
The atrocities of September 11, 2001 were a deliberate attack on the fundamental trust that holds a civilization together. It was an assault on people and on the solvency of an economic structure, and it was an assault on the stability, freedom and protection a global community of trading nations provides.
However American Business, sensing the [...]
