Edition 391 Monday 07/08/17
Hi,crikey where to start?...after birthday celebrations
spanning four full days culminating in the longest,laziest Italian lunch 48 and
Muriwai have seen!Yes it truly had it all from the Head Chef and Maitre D to
the live music from the recent debut album headliners ‘The Milltones’ to the
superb ‘one out of the box’ West Coast day!A special day for a special person
that provided an extra special occasion to mark my beautiful wifes 50th
birthday!
Fletcher
reckons,Mums birthday celebrations were exciting and fun but without
wanting to take anything away from his favourite person in the whole Universe
they were afterall only the curtain raiser to the main event this
week/weekend….yes his 5th birthday, bring it on!!
Something
funny happened as we accompanied Fletcher to his first official
real school exploratory ‘drop and go’ half day. It just so happened it was also
‘Grandparents Day’ and I am sure from the looks we were getting that other
parents and Grandparents were not sure if we were either older looking parents
or younger looking Grandparents J.We decided to keep them all guessing for as long as possible which was a
bit of fun!
In breaking ‘save our tree’ news the tree is still standing
however our relationship with our neighbours is no longer as they incur the
wrath of the neighbourhood and the Community!
We live in hope but believe the situation is symtematic of
bigger problems at City Hall.
Our problems are minor compared to many people we know so we
resolve to live each day to the fullest and hope you get to as well, have a
good one……Cheers Jonesey.
Kate Henderson reckons the moolah saved on Oscar and Harrys rego
should be reinvested in keeping her to the Labrador manor born! !ZZZzzzzzzzz
“It takes 20 years to
build a relationship and 5 minutes to ruin it”. Warren Buffett
Great
feedback from the ‘Momentum’ piece last week…thanks for that!
The
early start to the week on a positive mission ended in success which continued
to fuel other wins during the week resulting in one of my better ones in the
Green Gorilla suit!
Speaking
of the Gorilla suit I will never forget when I did dress up as a Gorilla for a
presentation and equipped with 2kg of bananas headed to a Boardroom showdown.
The
idea was to lighten up proceedings whilst providing a key point of difference!
To
say it failed epicly is being kind because it crashed,burned and disintegrated
to dust!
Yes
it was a bad misread of what I felt would surely project us in front of our
competitors.
We
lost badly and have never been invited back and are unlikely to ever be….hmmmmm
So
what did we learn and how has that helped us position ourselves more
favourably?
We
learned that the Ports of Auckland procurement Board members liked bananas but
didn’t like our attempt to lighten their attempt to make a key strategic
purchasing decision!
From
that day we have also learned that we need to get closer to our existing and
prospective customers to understand their business from top to toe. This
includes researching their industry trends so we can assist them to position
themselves to take advantage of those trends.I know I have said it before in
this column but our customers need us to be more than just a recycling and
waste transporter from A to B.
They need us to be a solutions provider who is
aligned to their business so closely that we work as intimately with them as
one of their own trusted team members.
That folks is what we learned a Gorilla suit and a
bunch of bananas was never going to do!!
“Wise people place
trust in ideas and not in circumstances”.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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