You don’t want to be perfect.<\/p>\n
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I knew a lady who did not speak English ‘properly’. <\/p>\n The head of the Company, upon reviewing this newsletter, said she’d help ‘improve’ her bad English. <\/p>\n “Absolutely not!” I countered, “That also<\/span> takes away the individuality that’s uniquely her.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Several years later we had a problem with this lady. <\/p>\n You don’t want to be perfect. <\/p>\n ————————–<\/p>\n These are related:<\/strong><\/p>\n 22<\/strong> Attitude<\/a> – 27<\/strong> Responses<\/a> –\u00a0\u00a0 37<\/strong> Or Its Equivalent<\/a> –\u00a0\u00a0 40<\/strong> So What!<\/a> – 59<\/strong> Hesitation<\/a> –\u00a0 60<\/strong> Patterns<\/a> – 64<\/strong> Natural Talents<\/a><\/p>\n 65<\/strong> Wealth<\/a> – 69<\/strong> Labels<\/a> –\u00a0 81<\/strong> Second Impressions<\/a> – 89<\/strong> Initiating<\/a> –\u00a0 95<\/strong> Ring\/Knock<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You don’t want to be perfect. I knew a lady who did not speak English ‘properly’. She would say “Hi, youse guys” when greeting her friends. And, as her sales organization grew, she wrote a monthly newsletter (before email!). Guess what her greeting in every newsletter was. Yep. “Hi, youse guys” The head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,30,41,43,44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-communications","7":"category-direct-sales","8":"category-leadership","9":"category-relationships","10":"category-self-image","11":"category-success","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nShe would say “Hi, youse<\/strong> guys” when greeting her friends.
\nAnd, as her sales organization grew, she wrote a monthly newsletter (before e<\/strong>mail!).
\n<\/em>Guess what her greeting in every newsletter was.
\nYep.
\n“Hi, youse guys”<\/p>\n
\n“Why,” I asked, “would you want to change such a distinctive style.”
\nWell so that she can improve her English and become even more understandable by others.<\/p>\n
\nShe won our highest award in two<\/strong> countries in the same<\/em> year.
\nWe had to invent a reward above and beyond what we normally give our top people.
\nAnd when we told her what it was, she answered
\n“Thanks youse guys.”<\/p>\n
\nYou want to be yourself.<\/p>\n