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Jim Jackson – Midwest Speakers Bureau Showcase Speaker
Jim Jackson – Midwest Speakers Bureau Showcase Speaker
Leadership is in fashion as a focus for business. Across America businesses invest time and energy in different leadership programs. There are as many different opinions as to what leadership is as there are cars. There are as many different and effective leadership styles as there are people to lead. With all the emphasis put on…
From now on, I want you to call me by my new title: Ref (short for referee). That’s right; I’m going to start calling the balls and strikes, and then count you out. I alone will determine when you’re out of bounds or your time has run out. If, in my opinion, you fail to…
A while back, I had a rare opportunity to visit New Iberia LA. I met the most impressive business man I have ever seen or heard in the last quarter century of working closely with successful business people. He was as profound in his thinking as he was in his execution. He was so focused…
Sometimes, when I tell people, “You always have a choice,” they look at me kind of funny. There’s this kind of gulp! Then their eyes get a little wider. And finally, they choke out the words, “Yeah … I guess that’s right, isn’t it?” Not like they like it. They realize it puts the burden…
Respect is one of the values that is a gift to yourself and a gift to other people. We often say that we need more forgiveness, more patience, more understanding in our culture, in our society, in our schools or in our workplace. But the first thing you have to do, in order to make…
The 27 / 37 Plan So let me give you some real life examples of how this stuff works. My own story, I call The 27 / 37 Plan. By the time I was twenty-seven, I’d had thirty-seven different jobs. So my truth was, I don’t last very long on any given job. TweetShareShare