Comments on: Choose Challenge and Create Value http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:09:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/comment-page-1/#comment-53924 Anonymous Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:19:17 +0000 http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/#comment-53924 You are so right on that I thought you were walking around in my brain!! We need to look around and realize that we are seeking leaders who are Change Agents. The status quo has got to go! Don't get stuck on where we have been. Let's focus on where we are going! Sure! We have all been screwed by the current state of affairs. Me included! We have been sucking it up for months! It is now time for us to get over ourselves and get back to doing what we can all do best. MAKING AMERICA GREAT!! The Blame game doesn't work! We are sick of it! Let's just put pur noses to the grindstone and start doing something about it. The TIP Lady You are so right on that I thought you were walking around in my brain!! We need to look around and realize that we are seeking leaders who are Change Agents.

The status quo has got to go! Don’t get stuck on where we have been. Let’s focus on where we are going! Sure! We have all been screwed by the current state of affairs. Me included! We have been sucking it up for months!

It is now time for us to get over ourselves and get back to doing what we can all do best. MAKING AMERICA GREAT!! The Blame game doesn’t work! We are sick of it!

Let’s just put pur noses to the grindstone and start doing something about it.

The TIP Lady

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]]> By: Anonymous http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/comment-page-1/#comment-53922 Anonymous Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:53:10 +0000 http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/#comment-53922 You haven't given him a chance.....You sound like you want to keep poor people on the field (Republican).... We need a change..... You haven’t given him a chance…..You sound like you want to keep poor people on the field (Republican)….
We need a change…..

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]]> By: Marti Ayres White http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/comment-page-1/#comment-53896 Marti Ayres White Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:56:59 +0000 http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/#comment-53896 Some of us will remember Janis Joplin's line: "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose." Maybe we can turn that on it's head and say that nothing left to lose could lead to a freedom we've never imagined. What are we going to do with all these unemployed auto workers? Are they suddenly going to became bio tech experts? I think not -- but if they are savvy, like your pajama folks, they could well become successful entrepreneurs. And it may just be us self-employed folks who ultimately save the economy. Some of us will remember Janis Joplin’s line: “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” Maybe we can turn that on it’s head and say that nothing left to lose could lead to a freedom we’ve never imagined.

What are we going to do with all these unemployed auto workers? Are they suddenly going to became bio tech experts? I think not — but if they are savvy, like your pajama folks, they could well become successful entrepreneurs. And it may just be us self-employed folks who ultimately save the economy.

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]]> By: anonymous http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/comment-page-1/#comment-53892 anonymous Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:02:31 +0000 http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/#comment-53892 I'm afraid the biggest LOSER will be Obama - followed closely by Carter. I’m afraid the biggest LOSER will be Obama – followed closely by Carter.

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]]> By: Jim Dreyer http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/comment-page-1/#comment-53891 Jim Dreyer Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:42:33 +0000 http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/#comment-53891 This may be one of your best RFL's ever, Dan ... and that's saying a lot. What America needs now more than ever is that old pioneering spirit ... and simply put, those who are willing to be a pioneer will blaze their own trail through this mess. Jim Dreyer Adventures In Mentoring This may be one of your best RFL’s ever, Dan … and that’s saying a lot. What America needs now more than ever is that old pioneering spirit … and simply put, those who are willing to be a pioneer will blaze their own trail through this mess.

Jim Dreyer
Adventures In Mentoring

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]]> By: Bill Yagerlener http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/comment-page-1/#comment-53887 Bill Yagerlener Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:56:31 +0000 http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/#comment-53887 I wonder if Obama-Jamas are American-made ... That would make them much more even more marketable! These days it's nearly impossible to find clothing that's not made in some low-wage country. I wonder if Obama-Jamas are American-made … That would make them much more even more marketable!

These days it’s nearly impossible to find clothing that’s not made in some low-wage country.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/comment-page-1/#comment-53885 Anonymous Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:36:48 +0000 http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/#comment-53885 Just finished watching GWB's last press conference on the boob tube......what a self centered, defensive jerk, who will undoubtedly go down in history with a legacy of LOSER written all over him. More borrowed money, and taxpayer supported bond money given to his insider group than any president in history. Just finished watching GWB’s last press conference on the boob tube……what a self centered, defensive jerk, who will undoubtedly go down in history with a legacy of LOSER written all over him. More borrowed money, and taxpayer supported bond money given to his insider group than any president in history.

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]]> By: John Agno http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/comment-page-1/#comment-53884 John Agno Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:28:56 +0000 http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/#comment-53884 Right on, Dan. We get what we tolerate. In medicine you look at how "well tolerated" a drug will be related to its side effects. At work and home, many people evaluate new opportunities related to what can be well tolerated. Yet after life, most people don't want their tombstone to read, "He tolerated stuff for other people because they paid him." Especially, when we realize that we can make more money and have more fun doing work that engages our passions. Life is too short for doing work you don't enjoy for people you don't respect. In this tough economy, the tough get going in delivering value in a timely manner. Tough times are an excellent time to build market share because prospective customers are ready, willing and able to listen to those who can provide excellent value, faster, cheaper and better than their current suppliers. Right on, Dan. We get what we tolerate. In medicine you look at how “well tolerated” a drug will be related to its side effects. At work and home, many people evaluate new opportunities related to what can be well tolerated.

Yet after life, most people don’t want their tombstone to read, “He tolerated stuff for other people because they paid him.” Especially, when we realize that we can make more money and have more fun doing work that engages our passions.

Life is too short for doing work you don’t enjoy for people you don’t respect.

In this tough economy, the tough get going in delivering value in a timely manner. Tough times are an excellent time to build market share because prospective customers are ready, willing and able to listen to those who can provide excellent value, faster, cheaper and better than their current suppliers.

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]]> By: Todd Anson http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/comment-page-1/#comment-53882 Todd Anson Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:43:11 +0000 http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/#comment-53882 Dan- I enjoy your newsletters as a Michigander who moved on to California 28 years ago to start a professional career, but find the tone of this one very short sighted as under the guise of telling folks to suck it up there is plenty of blame being leveled at others ("misled on a mortgage", "had job sold out", "pawn in a poliotical struggle"). Michigan has much more to offer than the wolrd currently credits it for- smart, hard working and earnest people valued by the 49 other states, great univesrities, etc., but it has noit been "smart" as a state. It completely blew any opportunity in the tech boom by remaing a high tax, low to no economic incentives state. It needs to use the current conditions to once and for all reposition iteslf. It can't let top talent it educates constantly leave the sate, but people need opportunity to stay. So far, Michigan has lacked the political will to morph into a successful New Age economy. All the necessary pieces are there but that will. Dan-
I enjoy your newsletters as a Michigander who moved on to California 28 years ago to start a professional career, but find the tone of this one very short sighted as under the guise of telling folks to suck it up there is plenty of blame being leveled at others (”misled on a mortgage”, “had job sold out”, “pawn in a poliotical struggle”). Michigan has much more to offer than the wolrd currently credits it for- smart, hard working and earnest people valued by the 49 other states, great univesrities, etc., but it has noit been “smart” as a state. It completely blew any opportunity in the tech boom by remaing a high tax, low to no economic incentives state. It needs to use the current conditions to once and for all reposition iteslf. It can’t let top talent it educates constantly leave the sate, but people need opportunity to stay. So far, Michigan has lacked the political will to morph into a successful New Age economy. All the necessary pieces are there but that will.

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]]> By: Mark http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/comment-page-1/#comment-53881 Mark Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:42:36 +0000 http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/#comment-53881 Dan wrote: Or, you can hunker down and hope somebody takes care of you, hope you can outlast the changes that are coming . . . faster and faster. Your choice. Devil's Advocate (me) says: What an idealistic statement! Yet, you didn't find that mantra exerted by the automotive Big 3, or the banking/insurance/big boys on Wall St. These entities looked to the BIG gov't to bail them out, with taxpayers dollars, without any oversight for that paultry $350 BILLION dollars (50% of allotment)!! It looks like in the face of failure, GWB and all of his complicit cronies, Democrat and Republican alike, voted to have the taxpayers take care of them, a real slap in our faces.....especially once the smoke clears and we get to see (IF we ever actually will see the truth) just how much of this bailout money went to end of year (2008) excutive bonuses (rewarded for failure; the new American way, but reserved only for those in a certain hierarchy position!!), travel junkets, acquisitions that do not benefit mainstream Americana, etc..... When there is TRANSPARENCY in government (spending), and a GENUINE FISCAL CONSERVATISM, then there will be a larger alliance to get down into the trenches, or in the current scenario, try to lift one's self out of the mire of a mudhole. Dan wrote:
Or, you can hunker down and hope somebody takes care of you, hope you can outlast the changes that are coming . . . faster and faster. Your choice.

Devil’s Advocate (me) says:
What an idealistic statement! Yet, you didn’t find that mantra exerted by the automotive Big 3, or the banking/insurance/big boys on Wall St.

These entities looked to the BIG gov’t to bail them out, with taxpayers dollars, without any oversight for that paultry $350 BILLION dollars (50% of allotment)!!

It looks like in the face of failure, GWB and all of his complicit cronies, Democrat and Republican alike, voted to have the taxpayers take care of them, a real slap in our faces…..especially once the smoke clears and we get to see (IF we ever actually will see the truth) just how much of this bailout money went to end of year (2008) excutive bonuses (rewarded for failure; the new American way, but reserved only for those in a certain hierarchy position!!), travel junkets, acquisitions that do not benefit mainstream Americana, etc…..

When there is TRANSPARENCY in government (spending), and a GENUINE FISCAL CONSERVATISM, then there will be a larger alliance to get down into the trenches, or in the current scenario, try to lift one’s self out of the mire of a mudhole.

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]]> By: sherry coady http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/comment-page-1/#comment-53880 sherry coady Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:37:14 +0000 http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2009/01/choose-challenge-and-create-value/#comment-53880 Dan, You have hit the nail on the head for me today.....I am now one of the unemployed, from an under employed job to say the least. About a year ago I realized that the only way to get ahead was to start a business.....because of the lending mess I am still trying. We decided to buy an existing business, (a successful business, that with my vision will be even more much of my vision is you what I can do quicker, personally, and less expensively and yet add to the bottom line), but I need a little help with the loan. NO ONE will lend to me. They are willing to take money and say that they can help, but then don't. I am now at the last lending institution that I know of, and have done the pitch one last time with a twist, which was "WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ME?" They seemed receptive to that statement, and hopefully I can move forward with my dream of owning my own business. Wish me luck, and I hope that your words help others get out of the despair that has become this state, country...... Dan,

You have hit the nail on the head for me today…..I am now one of the unemployed, from an under employed job to say the least.

About a year ago I realized that the only way to get ahead was to start a business…..because of the lending mess I am still trying. We decided to buy an existing business, (a successful business, that with my vision will be even more much of my vision is you what I can do quicker, personally, and less expensively and yet add to the bottom line), but I need a little help with the loan. NO ONE will lend to me. They are willing to take money and say that they can help, but then don’t.

I am now at the last lending institution that I know of, and have done the pitch one last time with a twist, which was “WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ME?” They seemed receptive to that statement, and hopefully I can move forward with my dream of owning my own business.

Wish me luck, and I hope that your words help others get out of the despair that has become this state, country……

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