The Dickhead

 

 

 

 

                                                                                       Edition 414 Monday 12/02/18

 

Hi,if your neighbour nearly killed your wife,husband,partner or a dearly loved one by driving dangerously ,what would you do?This was a situation I found myself faced with in the last week as one of our neighbours overtook dangerously nearly colliding head on with Christine!

I didn’t hesitate to remind him of his heritage and the need to pull his head in before he did kill somebody.The worrying thing is it is not the first and sadly it wont be the last time he acts so irresponsibly.The Police have yet again been advised however near misses and dick heads like our neighbour don’t rate highly in the scheme of things these days.Interestingly if he had punched me in the face like he threatened to do on numerous occasions for defending my wife and family the Police would have been there within an hour!

Fletcher reckons we should be able to officially rename our neighbour ‘The Dickhead’.

Something funny about our retired racing driver wannabe neighbour is his sense of entitlement to be able to do what he pleases in his retirement.In his words “he hasn’t worked for 40 years to be harrassed by his neighbours!” in more of his words “he hasn’t had a moving violation(yes he is American!) in 5 years “ nor “has he had an accident in all his years of driving “(but how many has he caused?) I was quick to add as I ducked and weaved around his ‘old guy’ punches. Yes my ‘Upbeat’ friends this has affected me a little!

So between our neighbours next door who want to end the life of a grand old Pohutukawa and our retiree neighbour opposite us who wants to end our lives driving like an absolute dick we are taking a stand on behalf of the Community and proud of it.

I hope you are also quick to stand up for your rights…have a good one…Cheers Jonesey.

 

Kate Henderson reckons she always knew ‘the dickhead’ was a bad egg!

 

 

“Positive mind,positive vibes, positive life.”

 

I attended a ‘Mood of the Sales Leader’ event last week.

The invite came as a result of being asked to complete a recent survey of the same name.

The event was to present the survey outcome to participants and other invitees.

I was one of 138 Sales leaders, CEO’s, GM’s or Account Managers to complete the survey.

Interesting results with high %’s reporting watershed growth in 2017 and more for 2018.

The result being increased recruitment, training and prices to achieve that revenue lift.

Also interesting that over 50% of those surveyed listed competitors and pricing as threats.

I guess these results are not that suprising given the so called ‘rockstar economy’.

Was the ‘Upbeat’ (a word actually used a lot) current and future ‘mood of sales leaders’ a bit artificially inflated to be expected from sales types or a true reflection?

Are we headed for a correction or do we back the opinion of this enthusiastic,buoyant band of men and women and ‘just do it’ anyway?......I reckon (of course I would say that).

Something I found intriqing was the move away from CV’s,references and interviews as a means of assessing the suitability of new candidates?

There is an emerging use and trend toward presenting prospective employers with video introductions and candidate history done in person by the candidate.

The other thing companies are being urged to do is make role plays a compulsory component of candidate selection criteria and ongoing sales training!!

Makes perfect sense when anyone can (and a lot do) fudge a CV or structured interview but wouldn’t have a clue how to project in a video or roleplay….bit of a worry really though!!

 

“Don’t be afraid to do something BIG.”