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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: IassaFTots on March 16, 2012, 09:18:40 PM
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Ok, so I am going to this "group hug" workshop, to be a "High Performing Leader" next week. Sponsored by my VP, I work in HR. It is all hush-hush, as far as what training we are going through, but I know enough to know that it is a bunch of huggy feely crap. I glimpsed the cover of the binder, and we have quotes from JFK. :loser:
I KNOW that my leadership in my dept is self-proclaimed dem. I don't care to lose my job at the moment, because I like it, and I need it. Apparently, I am going to be asked what popular individual influences me and why. I can't say Breitburt, Cain, Reagan, Palin, etc for a myriad of reasons, but I don't want to say some goober. Right now, I have three, Netanyahu, Thatcher, and Nugent.
Anyone have any better suggestion????
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You got to know when to hold them, and know when to fold them.
Know when to walk away, know when to run.
:wink: :-)
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You got to know when to hold them, and know when to fold them.
Know when to walk away, know when to run.
:wink: :-)
I am NOT naming Kenny Rogers. C'mon man. I have a secondary, thought I might name Jeremy Clarkson. :-)
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Say Jesus. O-)
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I am NOT naming Kenny Rogers. C'mon man. I have a secondary, thought I might name Jeremy Clarkson. :-)
I vote for this one. :rofl:
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-- I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
--- It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson
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How about someone apolitical so that you can't be criticized by your dem boss? Ooooh, how 'bout the Rocket Man, Homer Hickam, the dude who did alot to advance space exploration?
Something along those lines? Whatever inspires you, non-politically?
http://www.homerhickam.com/coalwood/
Some touchy feely feel good b.s. seminar isn't worth falling on your sword for, even IF you job were lousy and not needed.
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--This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.
--The Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite.
--I would buy that car if I was the sort of person who looked at their sister and though, 'mmmmmm'.
--(on cyclists) Trespassers in the motorcar's domain, they do not pay road tax, and therefore have no right to be on the road. Some of them even believe they are going fast enough to not be an obstruction. Run them down to prove them wrong.
- Jeremy Clarkson
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-- I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
--- It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson
erm. My dem boss is also descendent of slaves. :whatever: Jeremy Clarkson or Ted Nugent.
BH, I just read your quotes, and I feel exactly the same about cyclists. Clarkson it is! At least for tonight. :-)
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Anyone have any better suggestion????
Price Pritchett, Zig Zigler, Steven Covey, Captain D. Michael Abrashoff. These are dated but you could argue that successful management approaches never go out of style. :-)
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Ok, so I am going to this "group hug" workshop, to be a "High Performing Leader" next week. Sponsored by my VP, I work in HR. It is all hush-hush, as far as what training we are going through, but I know enough to know that it is a bunch of huggy feely crap. I glimpsed the cover of the binder, and we have quotes from JFK. :loser:
I KNOW that my leadership in my dept is self-proclaimed dem. I don't care to lose my job at the moment, because I like it, and I need it. Apparently, I am going to be asked what popular individual influences me and why. I can't say Breitburt, Cain, Reagan, Palin, etc for a myriad of reasons, but I don't want to say some goober. Right now, I have three, Netanyahu, Thatcher, and Nugent.
Anyone have any better suggestion????
Instead of Netanyahu, go with Ariel Sharon. He was loud, arrogant, opinionated and when ordered to do something, he did whatever the **** he thought was best. He even almost took a swing at Haim Bar Lev, a government minister and retired general who was called back to duty during the Yom Kippur War. He had a bit of a temper... :-)
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No. No. No.
If you want to play it safe, say Captain Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. Star Trek taught you everything you need to know about life.
You don't need to say when kirk met an enemy, he blew the enemy up. Just bring up vague platitudes like camaraderie and teamwork. (and FIREPOWER! Oh, right. Shhhhh)
Its nice PC, and no one will suspect a conservative mole in their midst.
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Bazinga.
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The former WH Communications Director Anita Dunn. If pressed elaborate that you admire the same people she admired. You might have no trouble with Mother Teresa, but before you mention Mao you might want to swallow hard first.
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Since you live in Texas, what about Sam Houston?
Ann Richards? (Yeah, I know, she was a Dem, but she's dead now. It's safe.)
:-)
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Probably wouldn't want to use Ted Nugent.
George Clooney? Seriously, he goes to the mat - and today to jail - for Darfur, the Sudan, in trying to bring attention how those people are being killed, starved, raped. He's using his popularity as an actor, to try to get the world to see what's going on there.
If the powers that be in your dept are Dem, I'd either pick someone who was apolitical, or whose politics are center enough to not be offensive to them but you can also agree with.
Mother Teresa. Margaret Thatcher, and Golda Meir might be safe.
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Hell this is easy......................... Lemmy :cheersmate:
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Hell this is easy......................... Lemmy :cheersmate:
I didn't mention him, but we DO share the same birthday. Just many years apart. :-)
I am fortunate that I got a heads up on this. If I was asked on the spot, my responses would be lame, because I know my audience and quite frankly we don't agree on anything. I anticipate hearing a whole bunch of Obama and Oprah and Steve Jobs. :whatever:
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After seeing all that have been proposed . . . I'm kinda leaning towards Anakin Skywalker's alter ego, as he was portrayed in "A New Hope." Barring that one, Jeremy Clarkson seems to be a good one. :tongue:
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If I get to pick a historical figure, I am going with Juliette Low. Founder of the GS. Don't get all crazy, the GS of yesteryear is NOT the GS of today. The quote she is famous for? "Right is right even if no one else does it." O-)
If I have to pick current, it's Clarkson all the way. :-)
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Yep Jeremy Clarkson it is.
"This car sounds like a dog sitting on an electric meat slicer".
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I got to say my Grandmother!!!!! :-)
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I got to say my Grandmother!!!!! :-)
Yay !