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The Carrot: Teachers Seeking Oprah
http://fish.blogs.com/thecarrot/2005/12/teachers_desper.html
Church of the Customer. Laquo; Give Us Wings. 61-second minute ». Sometimes people will refer to the Trojan FISH! As a way to describe how the philosophy initially makes its way into one's life or one's organization because of its fun attitude and natural energy. But then one day, at a deeper more heart-felt level, people have this WOW! Moment and there's no turning back. It's a zany story about how a group of teachers one-day decided that they wanted to see Oprah live in Chicago. I say the magic of pers...
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The Carrot:
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Church of the Customer. Laquo; May 2005. July 2005 ». Now that we're in the heart of vacation season and I just returned from own family get-away to Montreal to visit my dad, these stats from a recent MotherJones' feature, The Road to Nowhere. Got me planning my next trip pronto! Last year, Americans forfeited an average of 3 paid vacation days 415 million days total. A 50% increase over 2003. The value of unredeemed frequent-flyer miles is $700 billion,. Middle-aged men who skip vacation for five years.
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The Carrot:
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Church of the Customer. Laquo; November 2005. Maybe you've heard by now: New Year's Day 2006 is going to be delayed by a whole second to make up for changes in the Earth's rotation. The technicalities are explained in a Dec. 26 MSNBC article. But I'm not interested in that. Since I'm always dreaming of having more time, I've started thinking about what I might do with my extra second this year . Squeeze my daughter extra hard during a hug. Just one more scratch behind my dog's ear. Wink at the heavens.
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The Carrot:
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Church of the Customer. Laquo; April 2005. June 2005 ». When Harry met Delwar. So there we were, my colleague Harry and I, getting our bags lugged up to our hotel rooms in Beverly Hills after flying in from Minneapolis. You know the feeling . long flight, tight center-row squeeze, chatty neighbors, nauseous cab ride . once you get to the hotel, it's all you can do to take those few final steps into your hotel room and collapse on the bed. How long have you worked here? Do you live nearby? Bam Right betwe...
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The Carrot:
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Church of the Customer. Laquo; July 2005. September 2005 ». Calling out Human Resource Management. By now, even if you’re remotely related to human resource management like say your third cousin from Croatia is in the business you’ve probably read, been shoved into or have flat-out tried to ignore Keith Hammond’s scathing cover piece in the August issue of Fast Company, Why We Hate HR. Our experience of human resource departments and the passion of the people in them has been a little different. In the a...
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The Carrot: Wallace vs. Kersten
http://fish.blogs.com/thecarrot/2005/12/wallace_vs_kers.html
Church of the Customer. Give Us Wings ». Wallace vs. Kersten. Who isn't deluged with December to-do lists? It can be. I do my best to stay in tune with the real meaning of the holiday season. I even came across a wonderful line from poet Wallace Stevens that puts some wind in my sails for the next two weeks of December:. Beneath every No, lays a passion for Yes that had never been broken. Wow Stopped me dead in my tracks quicker than a half-price sale sign at Sports Authority. But so did this Despair, Inc.
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The Carrot: Blackberry Dip
http://fish.blogs.com/thecarrot/2005/11/blackberry_dip.html
Church of the Customer. Laquo; Empty-handed and Wholehearted. Do Lunch with a Pine Tree ». I admit it, Being There for someone sitting across the table fondling their Blackberry is my personal acid test for living The FISH! I know work’s been tough for you lately Sue, so I wanted to share. I found this book of. It’s filled with great ideas about. I just though it might help you. Ahhh, forget it. Take the damn book and call me later. So how do you get present with a crackberry addict? Thou shalt remember ...
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The Carrot
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Church of the Customer. Maybe you've heard by now: New Year's Day 2006 is going to be delayed by a whole second to make up for changes in the Earth's rotation. The technicalities are explained in a Dec. 26 MSNBC article. But I'm not interested in that. Since I'm always dreaming of having more time, I've started thinking about what I might do with my extra second this year . Squeeze my daughter extra hard during a hug. Just one more scratch behind my dog's ear. Wave to a neighbor I've never met. But of co...
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The Carrot: Archives
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Church of the Customer. Subscribe to this blog's feed. Wallace vs. Kersten. Do Lunch with a Pine Tree. Are We There Yet? Back to School in the Eye of the Storm.
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The Carrot:
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Church of the Customer. Laquo; September 2005. November 2005 ». If you're a parent who likes buying trinkets for your kids on business trips, you know there's nothing worse than pulling into the driveway at home only to realize that you forgot to get them something! It just happened to me. And the first voice I heard? Go back to Chicago now and grab something quick! How crazy is that? I gave it a shot. And a miraculous thing happened . In our September/05 edition of FISH! As for bringing more of my authe...
