The Red Days of October...
When will the RedBirds see a pennant? Will it be this month? This year? Will the next 2 weeks be the showcase for the Cardinals Red Day? Your guess is as good as mine, but what I have noticed as the years have gone by is that my insatiable desire to watch good baseball grows as the season goes by, and that trend continues into this season.
While my beloved Cardinal-ass-kickin' Red Sox have been eliminated this year (no doubt because the pummeling of last years' World Series apparently rubbed off), the excitement, the terror and the knuckle-riding days of October continue at a feverish pace and there's no end to the fervor in sight.
"Mike: What does your ridiculous wide-eyed love affair with baseball have to do with the newsletter?" some might ask. The answer is simple.
Everyone has passion for something that they participate in. Whether it be your interest in your wife or girlfriend, for your son or daughter's sporting team, for the arrival of Friday's at the end of each work week - the spectrum is long and never ending. What I'd like to ask each of you to do is to take just two ounces of that passion, and put it toward two things here at EPC.
The first is that you put passion to your job, whatever it may be. From driving a very bold forklift truck, to leading us into business-battle in the upper Exec echelons, show us just a taste of that passion in everything that you do to help customers directly. It is one of Dan's prime directives and should be on the top of everyone's list at EPC as well.
The second ounce's donation is, in my opinion, even more important. Take that second helping of passion and put it toward making sure that you offer your best effort to your fellow employees. While some of you may think that you've been stepped on too many times with/by someone that you work with, one thing always holds true:
You may think that because someone has done you wrong that they don't deserve your attention or hard work. But imagine the surprise and the overall irony and eventual self-satisfaction you'll receive, if what your "most hated enemy" gets - is YOUR BEST EFFORT.
You win, you've offered your best possible effort, and it can never be said that you didn't give your all toward completing a task that, while initially will help "the one that's done you wrong", it will eventually help to solidify a customer relationship with EPC.
I've always held to the fact that you should always be willing to work with anyone, anywhere. You don't have to like the people that you work with, but you do have goals to complete, and skills to offer. So offer them up and keep the standard high.
While my beloved Cardinal-ass-kickin' Red Sox have been eliminated this year (no doubt because the pummeling of last years' World Series apparently rubbed off), the excitement, the terror and the knuckle-riding days of October continue at a feverish pace and there's no end to the fervor in sight.
"Mike: What does your ridiculous wide-eyed love affair with baseball have to do with the newsletter?" some might ask. The answer is simple.
Everyone has passion for something that they participate in. Whether it be your interest in your wife or girlfriend, for your son or daughter's sporting team, for the arrival of Friday's at the end of each work week - the spectrum is long and never ending. What I'd like to ask each of you to do is to take just two ounces of that passion, and put it toward two things here at EPC.
The first is that you put passion to your job, whatever it may be. From driving a very bold forklift truck, to leading us into business-battle in the upper Exec echelons, show us just a taste of that passion in everything that you do to help customers directly. It is one of Dan's prime directives and should be on the top of everyone's list at EPC as well.
The second ounce's donation is, in my opinion, even more important. Take that second helping of passion and put it toward making sure that you offer your best effort to your fellow employees. While some of you may think that you've been stepped on too many times with/by someone that you work with, one thing always holds true:
You may think that because someone has done you wrong that they don't deserve your attention or hard work. But imagine the surprise and the overall irony and eventual self-satisfaction you'll receive, if what your "most hated enemy" gets - is YOUR BEST EFFORT.
You win, you've offered your best possible effort, and it can never be said that you didn't give your all toward completing a task that, while initially will help "the one that's done you wrong", it will eventually help to solidify a customer relationship with EPC.
I've always held to the fact that you should always be willing to work with anyone, anywhere. You don't have to like the people that you work with, but you do have goals to complete, and skills to offer. So offer them up and keep the standard high.
posted by Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking at 2:37 PM
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