Bill Gates said, "the worse thing about hiring an average employee is not about his average performance. The worse thing is that he is taking up space that could be occupied by someone phenomenal." It is the same with speakers and trainers.
During this time of budget cuts, to get people to want to do more with fewer resources? Your seminar was perfect."
Margaret Steiner, COO, California State University
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"Over the last eighteen years we have brought in top speakers from all over the country, one every year. Utilizing a very creative and very stimulating experiential learning model as you did, I would rate your day-long training presentation at the top one or two, especially for this uncertain time and at this moment."
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Business Careers - A Learning Tree Company
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ABOUT THE BOOK.. This from Viet Nam War survivor Steve Tice
The world would be so much better off if books such as "Lighting Your own Fuse" were required reading for all citizens. If so we would have better insight into ourselves as well as those close to us, then logically expand that respect and understanding onward up the human chain to our communities and beyond.
There is no need for the mean-spiritedness that prevails in our society and in some peoples' hearts. As a young soldier fighting, then severely injured on Viet Nam's Hamburger Hill, I witnessed man's inhumanity to man. I have spent my lifetime treading a path out of that mind-numbing body-wounding experience. "Lighting Your Own Fuse" is a guidebook for living with passion and courage rather than with a mindset of anger, defeat, or lowered self-expectations. Mr. Macdonald is a person who has seen much in his life and has set inspiration and insight to type to give us concrete choices towards living each day with a renewed faith in ourselves, hope, and most importantly the skills to do it with.
I have great appreciation for this book, and for this author putting his heart on the line to help us all gain a leg up in these difficult days." Steve Tice, Gig Harbor, WA
