Thursday, February 5, 2015

Link UP Thursday: Connect With The Hand Selected, Carefully Curated Valuable Tools and Information I've Discovered For You

"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,

 In between posts here, you'll find me curating articles and sharing informative articles I stumble upon on social media.

 You may need to be logged into LinkedIn to view some of these. If we are not connected there yet, hit me up for an invite. 

And to keep up on my shares between blogposts, follow my PERSONAL twitter account where you can scroll back through nearly 5,000 of no BS, hand-selected articles discovered by me, and passed on to you— to help improve your life and career. 

 Leading to all the love, happiness and success you deserve.


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 - we are blessed to have such dedicated and employees.

 Life is too short, so why wait?
Have a GREAT weekend,










Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer

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"Forget yesterday--it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow--you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift--today." ~~Steve Maraboli
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Ted Tuesday: Brené Brown: The Power of Vulnerability

“You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” Brené Brown studies vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame.




Good Morning Folks.

 Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame.

 Her 2010 TEDx Houston talk on the power of vulnerability is one of the most watched talks on TED.com, with over 18 million views. She gave the closing talk, Listening to Shame,  at the 2012 TED Conference in Long Beach.

 Brené is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (2012). She is also the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Gifts of Imperfection (2010), and I Thought It Was Just Me (2007).

 Brené is also the founder and CEO of The Daring Way – a teaching and certification program for helping professionals who want to facilitate her work on vulnerability, courage, shame, and worthiness.

 Brené Brown studies human connection — our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.

 Here’s the thing: Brown: A few years ago she had a nervous breakdown and started to see a therapist. 'The therapist said to me, “You have to embrace your vulnerability,” and I was like, “Screw that.”’

 In her new book she writes, 'We are hardwired to connect with others, it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives… Before I knew it, I had been hijacked by my research participants who, when asked to talk about their most important relationships and experiences of connection, kept telling me about heartbreak, betrayal and shame – the fear of not being worthy of real connection.’

 As part of her work she tried first to understand why a handful of people believe in their own worthiness; she calls these people 'Wholehearted’. She loses me a bit here. Is Wholehearted another word for happy, I ask her? 'No,’ she says adamantly. 'In fact I think our capacity for Wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness. It’s about being all in, saying, “I’m here and I’m going to love you fully and if you cheat on me you’re going to devastate me and break my heart, but I’m not holding back because this is short.”’

 Tears spring to her eyes as she says this. In fact, it was her realization that she herself fell far short of Wholehearted that tipped her over the edge.

 Have a look at Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability:

 Brené Brown is an absolute legend. This is groundbreaking - not in terms of peoples awareness of these subjects and what they mean... But in these messages enhanced communication made accessible to a wider audience on this level. Really awesome stuff.

 Thanks to The Telegraph for inspiring me to watch this talk, and to you for listening.

 Have a GREAT Day,



Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer  

Ideas are not set in stone. When exposed to thoughtful people, they morph and adapt into their most potent form. TED Tuesdays on MitchWeiner.com highlights some of today's most intriguing ideas. Look for more talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more— HERE.  


About FSO Onsite Outsourcing
Recognized on the Inc. 5000 list of the nation's fastest growing companies for the third consecutive year, and lead by industry pioneer, Mitch Weiner, FSO's growth and success can be attributed to making a positive and powerful impact on their clients' bottom lines, as well as their employees' careers and lives.

About TEDx 
x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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Monday, February 2, 2015

New Challenges- Strong People- Abundance of Ideas: Change Is In The Air

"It's no secret that people are excited and motivated to join a company with passion and excitement." (Photo via Zack Kanter)





Good Morning Folks, 

 I read this weekend in Zack Kanter's blog that like Google, Uber, one of the world's biggest job creators who no one saw coming, is working towards a 2025 goal of all autonomous cars which would slash the entire workforce they JUST created. 

Autonomous cars will be commonplace by 2025 and have a near monopoly by 2030, and the sweeping change they bring will eclipse every other innovation our society has experienced. They will cause unprecedented job loss and a fundamental restructuring of our economy, solve large portions of our environmental problems, prevent tens of thousands of deaths per year, save millions of hours with increased productivity, and create entire new industries that we cannot even imagine from our current vantage point.

 I think the huge disruptions of the last couple of decades will start looking pretty trivial pretty soon. And "gradual" is a relative term -- the pace of change is accelerating exponentially too. No doubt the economic impacts will be as great or greater than Zack describes in his article about Uber, whether precisely on this schedule or not.

Bottom line: The face of business is changing all around us and and the pressure is on to innovate or perish. Employment in America is increasingly operating in a new reality. The constancy of change requires today's career employee to think and act differently, because the path to the American Dream is no longer a guaranteed right of passage. 

Young Americans are being crushed by college debt. And even with college degrees, many of them can't find jobs. Older candidates faced an even harder time regaining employment during and after the Great Recession. 

Most of the gen x and younger Americans no longer have long work histories at any one particular company. It's a nomadic life of constantly on the look out for greener pastures.

The career escalator is jammed at every level. Unemployment rates are sky-high. Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Global competition for jobs is fierce. The employer-employee pact is over and traditional job security is a thing of the past.

That's why managers MUST navigate a brave new world in which companies must manage four different generations from millennials to boomers — each with different needs and motivations. 

That's why all business, law firms too, must run as better businesses.

In order to run better as businesses, law firms need true "Strategic Partners" (not just "vendors") to help them (re)IMAGINE....possibilities. To provide the ability to do what they would want to do if only they knew it was possible.                                  

 It's no secret that people are excited and motivated to join a company with passion and excitement. In order to represent FSO with the “confidence, knowledge, professionalism, smiles and spark!” that we’ve pledged to in our 2015 Corporate Goals, we continue to make strategic adjustments and investments to support our foundation.

 Steven Di Venuta joins us in New York City as our newest Director of Business Development. First and foremost, Steven’s power of focus will be dedicated to hunting new business and getting FSO new and amazing logos from around the country. In particular, Steven will be focusing on hunting and closing national legal accounts, particularly AmLaw 100 – 200 accounts to help expand our legal footprint. Steven will also own the growth of over 20 current FSO clients and help to further drive our national presence and revenue growth. Steven has built a reputation for sales and operational excellence, innovative strategic thinking and a deep and passionate commitment to his clients- each of which will help him drive FSO’s success around the country.

 As FSO continues to sell across the United States, spotting and hiring great talent is and will continue to be our priority. That being said, I am pleased to announce the hiring of Ron Kelly, Senior Account Executive for Chicago. Ron is a very passionate individual who hates to lose! Ron is a “sales guru” (so he says, but the proof will be in the sound of ringing bells!), with 20 years of experience under his belt and still salivates over the art of the deal.

 Amelia Ramos will be joining the Office of the Chief of Staff. Reporting into Denise Ngeow (SVP Corporate Strategy and Chief of Staff) and with a dotted line to Aida Hibbert (Experience Director for Field/Operations), Amelia will be focusing on strategy, learning the business end-to-end, including marketing, research and process planning.

 Amelia’s responsibilities will include working with the front of house at headquarters to understand and evaluate our approach to the business and clients’ needs and to simultaneously develop a strong understanding of our hospitality model. She will help manage and deliver a solid people management program at the sites and will provide administrative support, as needed, for onsite processes and best practices at HQ. Finally, Amelia will be working with the People Solutions Team to support and deliver the FSO initiative “the happiest place to work”.

 In presentation after presentation we hear that the back office folks are being forgotten about. That they are unhappy with their the outsourcing vendor, who has failed its people by neglecting focus on motivation AND training.

 Seriously, every account we've won and in growing the business so rapidly in just 48 months was a client of someone else who let them down. In this economy, bigger conglomerates look to cut costs, but make a big mistake when they skimp on training. By neglecting to properly and consistently train their folks, our competitors have opened the door for others to eat their lunch.

 Training is OUR competitive difference, and folks from all walks of the company are taking advantage of it.

 That's where Onsite Outsourcing with Future State Outsourcing (FSO) shines. We excel at attracting and retaining inspired and passionate people with performance-based rewards and opportunities for advancement.

 By partnering with FSO, outsourcing can become a leverage that can help use new resources for new projects and help drive revenue growth. 

 We are on fire and we are going to LIGHT UP the ON SITE OUTSOURCING BUSINESS. We are not playing in this space. We are here to own it, and will be adding resources proactively and strategically to support our budding infrastructure."

 Why? Because we CARE, we laugh, we love and we have fun! And we keep commitments many companies have strayed away from. J

 Have a great week and thanks for being a part of our amazing journey.









Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer

   
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"Give your customers the ability to do what they would want to do if only they knew it was possible.” 
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