Monkeying around

         

 

 

Edition 192 Monday July 1st 2013

 

Hi, I try to swim 1 km at the public pool close to work every day if I can. It is great exercise and it is a welcome break from the office or the field if it can be worked into the day. Sometimes the pool is busy and I have to share a lane with a local or like minded athlete! This can test the patience at times but it goes with the territory so best to live with it. Sometimes I get grumpy with slow traffic in my lane like the other day when a female gold card holder was wasting space in lane 2! I got annoyed and was just about to be rude when this delightful lady introduced herself to me. Her name was Cathy and she and her husband of 55 years are regulars. She told me she stays to the left in her lane in the pool (just like on the road in her car!) and she knows how to handle Gen Y would be triathletes like me, with charm and class. She tells me she is affectionately known at the pool by all staff and regulars as “Cathy lane 2” for obvious reasons so get used to it fit and faster guy.

Moral;don’t be grumpy or too quick to judge a book by its cover,thankfully the world is full of Cathys.

We are all walking around like zombies with sleep deprivation at the moment as Fletcher continues to battle bronchialitis combined cruelly with the arrival of more teeth L. Thank goodness for panadol, red wine, crock pot comfort food, the log burner and the ruggers on telly and his bullet proof Mum!!

I hope you are all looking after yourselves, relaxing, and spending time with family and friends when you can.

Have an eventful and happy week ahead  ………Cheers Jonesey!!!!!

 

Harry and the Hendersons, Dogs 101; We bark, its what we do,OK?, so get over yourself!!

 

 

“At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different.” Dave Franco

 

We have been talking to a prospective customer for a long time trying to secure their business. As a result of this there is nothing they don’t know about our business and vice versa.

Unbelieveably last week we were invited to do yet another presentation to their procurement committee. Apparently our competitors had insisted on this and been invited to do the same.

Well,I was over it and decided it was time to show them something they hadn’t seen, rather than have them keep guessing, yes ,it was time to remove all doubt!!

Time to be a bit goofy, certainly different and leftfield but also something that would make us stand out from the rest !!!

Yes folks,time to dress up as a Gorilla and present our team like never before.

I hired a Gorilla suit, stocked up on bananas and drove across town in the Gorilla car much to the amusement of my fellow motorists and pedestrians who noticed…it was hilarious fun.

Picture a boardroom full of dryish analytical accountant/procurement types waiting to grill us and dissect yet another meaningless power point presentation and then…. in bounds a man in a Gorilla suit handing out bananas to all present before presenting our bold new start up environmental solutions company who is now playing hard ball in the big kids sandpit!

I think we struck a chord by presenting a unique approach consistent with some exciting new info further demonstrating our commitment to recycling, sustainablility and innovation.

Will it be good enough to win the business?, who knows,only time will tell but one thing is for sure, it was certainly different!!.....see attached photos. Why not have some fun doing something similar!!

 

“I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.”

Lee Ann Womack