17/11/2008
During a recent speech on the changing face of marketing and brand, one of the attendees relayed a story about his wife. He said she'd taken their BMW in for a service and while she waited for it to be completed, she sat on a leather couch and received coffee and chocolates. She relayed the story to him and described it as a wonderful experience. He asked how much the service cost, and she said 'I don't know but the chocolates and coffee were lovely.'
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10/11/2008
Recently I was invited to meet with the Director of a large FMCG company. The guy had heard about some work that I was doing in Vidcasting and was keen to chat. He prefaced our discussion by saying it was an 'informal' discussion. He then went about giving me an indication of what he wanted to do and then naturally we started our discussion.
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13/10/2008
On the way back from Perth recently I was reading the newest book from former Australian cricket star Justin Langer called 'Seeing the Sun Rise'. I've always admired Justin Langer, being a fellow left hander. His mental capacity, concentration and ability to bounce back when he was dropped have always captured my attention. Anyway, during his book I came across a paragraph at the end of a chapter that I thought would be nice to share with you and invite your comment:
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16/09/2008
I was
proud to close the 2008 Day of Inspiration. What a cracking day with some of
Australia's best key note speakers and some incredibly inspirational special
guests. Olympic Gold medalist's like Duncan Armstrong and Suzy Balogh joined
some of Australia's finest corporate speakers in Peter Baines, Avril Henry and
Andrew May. We thought it would be hard to top the 2007 Day of Inspiration but
as is the case with our team, we raised the bar yet again. There were so many
great take outs from the day, I defy anybody not to have left with pages and
pages of thoughts, quotes and new ideas to inspire them for bigger and better
things.
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12/08/2008
We all know people who are inspiring, but just how does one inspire others? Here are ten simple ways you can inspire people to be their best:
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