Goingtheextramile
Going the extra mileI was 20 and had just finished my first degree when I aksed my father's advice on how to approach the world of work. He had a long and distinguished career in the Indian Army and...
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Believe what you feelOn this day, Morrie says that he has an exercise for us to try. We are to stand, facing away from our classmates, and fall backward, relying on another student to catch us. Most of...
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Bad by name; bad by nature? During Nelson Mandela's 19 years imprisoned on Robben Island, one particular commanding officer was the most brutal of them all: "A few days before Badenhorst's departure, I...
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Get Credits 4 Cash ! ! ! I love trials, samples. Just like the next guy/gal. So I have multiple ads for viewing for you to try some products/services out. It's a WIN~WIN ! ! ! ! ! How this works is...
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the aunt karen storyA teacher told her young class to ask their parents for a family story with a moral at the end of it, and to return the next day to tell their stories. In the classroom the next...
View Articlethe microsoft story
the microsoft storyA different slant on the human resources tale above...In 2050 A.D. Bill Gates dies in a car accident. He finds himself in the Purgatory waiting room, when God enters... "Well,...
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The Fairy Story A couple were dining out together celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary.After the meal, the husband presented his wife romantically with a beautiful very old gold antique locket...
View ArticleThe Blindman and the Advertising Story
the blind man and the advertising storyAn old blind man was sitting on a busy street corner in the rush-hour begging for money. On a cardboard sign, next to an empty tin cup, he had written: 'Blind -...
View ArticleStranded Car Dilemma Story
Stranded Car Dilemma StoryThis story is adapted from a scenario which featured in a widely circulated email, in which (supposedly) job applicants were given loosely the following question to answer,...
View ArticleThePreacherandtheFarmerStory
The Preacher and the Farmer StoryAn old hill farming crofter trudges several miles through freezing snow to his local and very remote chapel for Sunday service. No-one else is there, aside from the...
View ArticleThe Biscuit Factory Story
The Biscuit Factory Story !This is a true story. Some years ago the following exchange was broadcast on an Open University sociology TV programme. An interviewer was talking to a female...
View ArticleOne Year To Live
One Year To LiveAnthony Burgess war 40 when he learned that he had only one year to live. He had a brain tumor that would kill him within a year. He know he had a battle on his hands. He was completely...
View ArticleHow To Get What I WAnt
How To Get What I WantHow to get what I want? You've heard the expression, "What you see is what you get." My grandfather used to say: "If you look at a tree long enough, it will move." We see what you...
View ArticleThe Last cab ride
The last cab rideTwenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. One time I arrived in the middle of the night for a pick up at a building that was dark except for a single light in a ground floor...
View ArticleDon't Hope .... Decide!
Don't Hope ...Decide! While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I had one of those life-changing experiences that you hear other people talk about — the kind that sneaks up...
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Hospital Windows Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was...
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ChopsticksA woman who had worked all her life to bring about good was granted one wish: "Before I die let me visit both hell and heaven." Her wish was granted. She was whisked off to a great banqueting...
View ArticleThe house with the golden windows!
The house with the golden windowsThe little girl lived in a small, very simple, poor house on a hill and as she grew she would play in the small garden and as she grew she was able to see over the...
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