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Show Chamber told teamwork is key to success to reach these goals like you would climb a ladder, one rung at a time. Using humor throughout his talk, Marshall pointed out the difference of passing out warm fuzzies compared com-pared to cold prickles. Which would your friends rather have? he asked. I - - Marshall also stressed the need for unity and cooperation in business. busi-ness. Using a pencil, as an example, he showed how one pencil could easily be broken, but that a bunch of pencils held together with a rubber band could not be easily broken. He asked the group for the most important ingredients of a successful suc-cessful business. Many answers were given, but overlooked was the most important ingredient, "you, the employee. ' ' Marshall also urged business leaders to be careful of how they "handle" a situation. After calling two women to the head table, he gave one of them a slice of chocolate cake on a glass plate. For the other, he picked up a wad of cake with his hands and placed it on a paper plate. The one with the glass plate ate her cake. The other just stared at the speaker. "It's all in how it was handled," Marshall concluded with a smile. By GARY R. BLODGETT BOUNTIFUL - In business, like in social life, three words tell the story 'Working together works." This was the emphasis of a talk given last Wednesday by Clyde Marshall, Oquirrh District customer service supervisor for Utah Power and Light Company, to the Bountiful Boun-tiful Area Chamber of Commerce. Marshall encouraged Chamber leaders to be team members and not members of the WIIFM (What's in It for Me) Society. Using a mythical Coach Shepherd Shep-herd as an example, Marshall told the group that they should instill in their employees the need for teamwork team-work - the same type of teamwork that lifted Coach Shepherd's high school football team from a consistent consis-tent loser to a state champion. He told how Coach Shepherd would lead his team members, instead in-stead of driving them; to give them choices, rather than to dictate; to act, not to react; to praise openly, but to criticize privately; to express feelings with a warm touch and emotion; to teach that teamwork works only when the team works; and if you think you are loser, you will be a loser. He also taught that success breeds success. If a program is successful, suc-cessful, don't change it. Marshall encouraged business leaders to set goals and then attempt i Le9endary football Coach Shepherd demonstrates the "Rules to live by" book he followed to teach his team the need for teamwork. |