Monday, February 02, 2009

What sparked the rereading of "The Greatest Salesman in the World"

I have not, per se, had any direct mentoring relationships in life, but I have had many wonderful opportunities to learn from some outstanding people.  As mentioned in my post "The Scroll Marked 1", one such opportunity was with Mr. Potts.  In recalling his advice, I passed along the recommendation to read "The Greatest Salesman in the World" to a fine young man that works with me.  As recommended, he went out and bought the book and came back with inspiration in his eyes and told me about the impact of reading it.  I was excited to see and hear how it had affected him.  Job accomplished!  I felt I had taken something good and passed it along.

A few weeks later, the advice was reciprocated by him, and I followed it.  I dug up the book out of a box it had found as home since the initial reading three years previous.  What followed was the inspiration discussed in "The Scroll Marked 1" post.

A motto that was ingrained in memory from a past job's list of five values seems fitting... 

"Timing is everything"

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