Tuesday Matinée – Famous Fools
An extra feature this week! A perfect companion piece for our Quick Lists: 10 Business Failures and 10 Famous Fools! All great helps to morale and productivity.
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These business people struck out. Some of them before they even got started. Can you imagine how discouraged they felt? Or even foolish?
But they kept swinging. And eventually “hit it out of the park”.
And then who do you think felt foolish? Ah yes – the joke was on the naysayers.
Read more10 Business Failures
These ten business people struck out – several times. But they kept swinging. And you could say that they “hit it out of the park”.
Read moreStefany Picquet Does Business with Heart at Starbucks
I didn’t get to pick up The Daily Tar Heel(UNC’s campus newspaper) this morning and so thank goodness for Twitter. Because otherwise I might have missed reading about Stefany Picquet, otherwise known as “The Rock” at Starbucks. She totally embodies the spirit that we refer to hear at Business Class as “doing business with heart”.
Read moreMonday Matinée – The Babe & Baby Ruths
If your team is discouraged from a number of setbacks as many teams are these days, we encourage you to put this week’s morale and productivity tools to work, starting with the Quote of the Week featuring Babe Ruth and continuing with this Monday Matinée.
While they most likely know about baseball, some of your team members may not know much about Babe Ruth. So instead of waiting to share this as our Movie of the Week on Friday, we decided to bring you a Monday Matinée. Watch these to help them get in the swing of things. The first is a newsreel from 1947. The second is the trailer from The Babe which gives a glimpse of the boy and the man on and off the field – the good and the bad. Both are just over 2 minutes long.
Read moreQuote of the Week: Keep swinging!
When morale is low and productivity suffering…we can always look to baseball. Just look at these numbers. A great reminder that a strike out is not a failure.
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