"You are all very special and bring tremendous talent and spirit across every client that we take care of across all of our services – so I say thank you to one and all for all you do!!!"
Good Morning Folks, As I write often we have lots to be thankful for and I am sure as a team 2016 will be our best yet. During my holiday vacation time I was catching up on reading and began curating articles for sharing next year on social media. One of the best articles I read this vacation was Creative Leaderships "My Four Rules," New Years Resolutions written for the year 2000:
1. Don’t speak ill of others. It’s human nature to knock the other party down when they aren’t watching as a natural survival instinct. I always admire the people I meet in lifewho never feel they have to speak ill of others to make themselves look good.
2. Avoid passive aggressive behavior. Failing to be forthright with what you really want to say can be hurtful. Being honest and respectful is a good way to deliver a difficult message.
3. Listen broadly, but don’t waffle on decisions. When people depend upon you to make a decision, they’re basically asking you to be responsible for the possible failed outcome. Your decision should be based upon expert opinions culled from your team, but in the end you make the final decision and are the one responsible — you bear the responsibility for the team. If you’re wrong, admit you’re wrong early and things will usually go better that way. If you’re right then consider yourself lucky and pass on the win to your team. Keep moving forward.
4. When in error — admit, apologize, move forward. I am not perfect. The only way that I can guarantee not making any mistakes is if I were to do absolutely nothing. So by doing anything at all, I risk making errors of varying degree of intensity. When, and I will, make a mistake I will admit the
As the end of year approaches it's the perfect time to reflect on how FSO has flourished in such a short year! We have continued to grow exponentially and expand our presence with great new sites and wonderful new staff nationally. Your commitment to service and our clients saw us recognized as the fastest growing onsite outsourcing yet again.
We also created thousands of new jobs, recognizing and rewarding more employees than ever! I launched the "Happiness" team as part of my unbridled commitment to ensure that training and development, recruitment and hospitality were the best in the industry and that FSO will be the happiest place to work.
The one thing that has been unwavering throughout has been the FSO culture.
You are all very special and bring tremendous talent and spirit across every client that we take care of across all of our services – so I say thank you to one and all for all you do!!!
This has been and always will be, our differentiators. Our skip, fire, and twinkle will never be replaced. It is what our clients BOUGHT and what attracted many of you to work for Me and FSO. Our motivation, power of positive energy, fun, spirited and personal approach to business will ever be compromised!
Thanks to everyone for their great efforts this year - we are blessed to have such dedicated and employees.
I want to wish all of you and your families a wonderful Holiday Break and a fantastic New Year. Celebrate happy but safe with friends, colleagues and family.
The countdown has begin and in 2016, FSO only gets better from here. From the Forrests. Catons and Weiners, have a very Happy, Safe, and Fun filled New Year's Eve.
Lose weight, finding love, advancing your career-whatever your 2016 resolutions and goals may be remember: “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." [Dale Carnegie]
While Mitch takes some family time-out for the holidays this week, he's left a few links to some of his most popular recent posts. Enjoy!
Throw Back Thursday: Everybody Leads; Everybody Cares “This Will Always Lift You Up” http://goo.gl/GWdcnc TED Tuesday: Jeff Iliff: One More Reason to Get a Good Night’s Sleep http://goo.gl/64CTn3 #aGoodNightsRest TED Tuesday: Life Is Beautiful (A TED Playlist) Wonderful reminders for the season of gratitude and joy! http://goo.gl/3ZNL8E Inspire ME Friday ==> Letting Go of Keeping Up “The tendency to compare oneself to other people is fundamental” http://goo.gl/d3FTTn Inspire ME: Purpose is eternal, limitless, and absolute. “Do you, everyday, purposefully move towards your goals?” http://goo.gl/8LR8ws Ted Tuesday— “Modern work is about solving brand-new problems every day, flexibly, in brand-new ways.” http://goo.gl/Iy8Pqd TED Tuesday: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Meet the women fighting on the front lines of an American war http://goo.gl/CKBTbO Inspire ME Friday: Appreciate Me What can you celebrate right now? http://goo.gl/8KZmvY #InspireME At FSO, We Are Thankful For You http://goo.gl/4meqKl "Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being positive about what could go right". — zig
Our lives are peppered with mentors, bosses, colleagues and teachers who have helped us with our professions. But I bet you're like me and got your first career lesson from family.
I'll never forget mine. I think of it almost daily around the holidays.
Holidays are a time for family and good memories. And for saying thanks.
At FSO, we have a lot to be thankful for. We had another record year, advancing rapidly from a blank canvas to the fastest growing privately-owned outsourcing company on the planet. But, the best is yet to come (more about that in my 'kickoff" message back here on Jan 7).
Saying "thank you" — sincerely and with heart — feels good. Not just to the person receiving it, but also to the person offering it. And that's part of work too. It's hard to remember, as we process our 580th post, that behind each message being read is a person..
So, as we celebrate the end of one year and usher in another, I want to say "thanks" to you. The support I feel from you, my readers, our customers, employees and clients, is an unending source of encouragement to keep at it.
It is a huge gift to me that you are interested in what I have to say and spend your valuable time reading and sharing it. It touches me and I am so thankful for it. Remember...
Zig's New Years Resolution:
"Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being positive about what could go right"
We'll be pausing the blog until Monday so our ever-growing FSO family can spend quality time with their own.
"The moral of the story is never give up hope. Hope that you will find meaningful work and success in life."
Good Morning Folks, Five years ago, Brian Acton was looking for a job. His job at Yahoo, where he'd filled many engineering roles over 11 years, had come to an end. He was networking with recruiters. He met with Twitter. Twitter said no. He met with Facebook. Facebook said no. So he and Jan Koum, a colleague from Yahoo, set out to do their own thing. Last year they sold that thing to Facebook for 19 billion dollars. What'sApp was bought with Facebook stock at near its all-time high. So, from a financial point of view, Zuckerberg's "funny money" really has little relative meaning to begin with. However, the whole public mania with Social Media in general does illustrate what a misallocation of capital can be and the consequences of the FED's cheap money (low interest rates) have been. Imagine if instead, a group of investors had raised $ 19 Billion dollars in California during the current 3 year drought ( which actually began in 2000 ) for water resource projects? I mean really, what is more important, basic, and essential than water and food? In doing so, tens of thousands of jobs would be created. The market says no, social media and mobile instant messaging is much more important. This worries some much more than how much Facebook paid for this acquisition. Life is crazy. The moral of the story is never give up hope. Hope that you will find meaningful work and success in life. Hope that where money is available to capitalize new ideas and innovative talent, we direct some of that towards solving the world's most pressing problems. And hope that company's like Yahoo who had all the talent and innovative brain power to become Facebook rather than be trumped by them, will never stop being receptive to new ideas and change.
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FSO is having an OPEN HOUSE on Thursday, July 16th from 11am-3pm in our HQ office in NY. IMMEDIATE HIRES for all service lines: Informationalists, mail associates, copy associates, messengers, records associates, security associates, office service/hospitality service associates. We are also hiring site managers, leads and many HR positions including National Recruiting Manager, trainers, HR generalists, Director HRIS/Benefits…come and meet us…GREAT opportunity to join an AMAZING company. We are located at: 19 W 44th Street NY, NY, 9th floor.
Good Morning Folks, Today we are having an Open House at our headquarters looking to add hundreds of exceptionally talented folks to support our national expansion. The main thing we look for is "skip, fire and twinkle." People who exude so much passion and self-confidence, they can't help but to get others excited too. We look for people who take the initiative to always look for new and different and more efficient ways of doing things. People whose smile will always brighten our client's day. How can we demonstrate such an attitude, a spirit? Well you've probably seen an amazing talent on the Internet who has probably dazzled and amazed you with his sparkling entertainment.
Zach King is a filmmaker, born and raised in Portland. He started his film journey at age seven when his parents gave him a camera at a wedding. After being rejected from film school, he started the YouTube channel "FinalCutKing," where he posted video editing tutorials. Zach has garnered more than 400,000 subscribers to his channel. In September 2013, he launched a Vine account based around his "magic" editing and has grown an audience of nearly 1 million fans. What is most fascinating about his story is can you believe he was rejected from Film School but snuck in any way to observe classes while his Chinese dad insisted he be a piano major as is the native custom, he claims? He interned as a camera man on a Rhino shoot in thee wild which gave him great perspective as an editor. Even though some of his own movies have been viewed over twenty million times (a lot more than some $300 million Hollywood films) he still wants to be a Hollywood movie director and I'm sure we're going to be seeing him get an Oscar some day soon. Like Zach, some people who come to our Open Houses at FSO have faced insurmountable odds in life, tons of rejection and glass ceilings in their previous careers. But if they bring the skip, fire and twinkle and show ambition and work really hard, we are willing to invest in training and development and they can advance rapidly and their dreams can be realized. Just ask any of the managers you meet during our interview process. It wasn't long ago that they walked in our door, as you will today. Now Zack's story from his presentation at TEDx followed by a video he made to tell it and links to his Online Channels which you can bookmark to be entertained and entertain your friends at your summer parties this weekend.
His Vines guaranteed to entertain you: www.zachkingvine.com We'll look for Zack at the Oscars. And look forward to honoring today's new hires at ome day at our very own monthly, annual and on-the-spot awards celebrations. Coming soon to an opportunity near you. Love Life! I am looking forward to seeing you soon.
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“Everyone leads” means that every person, from the bottom to the top, is empowered to do what’s right for the customer, and encouraged to think and act like an owner. "
Good Morning Folks, To cap off an exciting week-long celebration looking back at some of our inspirational growth on MitchWeiner.com during the past 24 months, I have chosen to end with an inspirational message called "Everybody Leads." It's one I shared last summer on my LinkedIn Influencer series that's gotten widespread attention and accolades. No wonder, it was penned by one of FSO's star Manager, Alex V who runs the consistently number one Chicago performing operation at PwC, who also shared FSO's 2014 Stanley Cup Award with PwC Florham Park as FSO's top performing operations nationwide. Alex... over to you....
Everybody Leads
"We live and work in difficult times. Today, change is everywhere, competition is fierce, and windows of opportunity slam shut before they’re even fully open.
In times like these, the burden of leadership feels heavier every day – but it doesn’t have to be that way. No burden is heavy if everyone lifts. Imagine if, regardless if it’s a small 2-3 person FSO team, a large FSO site, an FSO region or FSO as a whole where everyone not only lifts as one, but also leads, learns, grows, wins and celebrates as one.
In FSO, there is no such thing as an unimportant person, role, task or idea. When we roll out of bed each morning, we go to work knowing that, regardless of our title, we are not only needed, but appreciated.
“Everyone leads” means that every person, from the bottom to the top, is empowered to do what’s right for the customer, and encouraged to think and act like an owner. Here, leadership is action not position. Mitch’s mission is everyone’s mission, and any obstacle is considered everyone’s obstacles. “It’s not my job” is one phrase that is seldom heard. Everyone ensures that his or her team is charged up, in touch with the big picture, and willing and able to lead.
In FSO, no one is to blame, but everyone is accountable. No one points fingers, but everyone lends a hand. No one takes credit, but everyone freely gives it away.
If all this sounds like a smart way to run an organization, it is.
As Robert Townsend once wrote, “If people are coming to work excited… if they know they’re making a difference… if they’re making mistakes freely and fearlessly… if they’re having fun… if they’re concentrating on getting things done rather than just preparing reports – then somewhere (perhaps everywhere) you have leaders.”
YOU are a leader! Lead!
In Chicago, to keep our team motivated, we always end our daily huddle with a motivational quote. Today’s quote is..
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
In yesterday's post I cited another employee who put promise to practice acting on Alex's explanation of what true leadership is (“Everyone leads” means that every person, from the bottom to the top, is empowered to do what’s right for the customer, and encouraged to think and act like an owner.). That's exacty what our employee did that we discussed in yesterday's post, taking initiative to find new, better and less expensive ways of doing things for the customer to win.
You don't "manage" people, Alex. You Lead and Inspire! We're so proud of the FSO Chicago Team and their Leader, Alex!
Have a GREAT WEEKEND as I look forward to seeing all of you soon.
“Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.” ..............................................................
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