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By: John

John — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 22:17:42 +0000

Bre,

Thanks for the great post!

It sounds like you have a great CEO…

By: Bre Grubbs

Bre Grubbs — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:16:16 +0000

Hi Dad – I was reading your posting about employee evangelism and it made me think about the way that we do things in our office. The CEO himself has really made it a priority to make sure that he hires people that enjoy what they are doing, have high standards, and are eager to succeed and excel. He has a story that he told us that I think is extremely relevant not only in business but in life as well. It is the CRAB story and I will try my best to tell it the way he did:

If you put one crab into a box and leave the lid off of it, the crab will climb out of the box and wander away. This is not much of a surprise. If you put two crabs in the same box, however, you could walk away for days and when you came back both crabs would still be there. Why? Because whenever one tries to climb the side of the box to escape, the other will pull it down and then begin to try to climb out itself. The other crab will then pull it down. Together the crabs ensure that neither will ever be successful.

Some people are crabs. This doesn’t mean that they are bad people, it just means they are crabs. Some people are always crabs, and others are only crabs sometimes. A person can become a crab because they are in a job that they don’t like. Others become crabs because of family or personal situations. And at one time or another everyone has been a crab.

A person becomes a crab any time they pull another person down. Anytime someone has told you that something is impossible, they are being a crab. Anytime someone has encouraged you not to do something because it is better for them that you didn’t, they were being a crab. Crabs are all around us, and often we are influenced by their attitudes, suggestions and actions, sometimes without even realizing it.

At Leisure Care we have a “No Crab” policy. We work hard to keep morale high and to have a great working environment – and our executives are very good at it.

Just wanted to share the story, because we all have very much enjoyed it at the office.

By: John

John — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:08:32 +0000

Thank you Rosa, Phil, & Patrick for your comments. When you work for a company or organization that truly has a team of employee evangelists… watch out… things will change and the buzz will attract great people from the outside who will want to come to work there. Great companies attract great people… This can be the “tipping point” in developing a truly remarkable organization!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:02:20 +0000

Thanks for posting this article. I am a small business owner. Currently it’s my wife and myself but thinking about how we can “evengelize” our business is helping us refocus our efforts from the point of how we organize our marketing efforts to the point of spliting up things we do into different divisions or “companies”. I’m also a deacon at my church and yesterday we had a leadership meeting with the pastor and elders of the church and I mentioned this article as we were setting goals for the future of our church. Of course in a church you think of evangelism in the terms of an evangelist like Billy Graham leading large crusades but I made a point that we should all be evangelists internally and externally sharing our enthusiasm for the mission of the church. Thanks for posting this. Would should all be evangelists in all that we are involved in if not then we have to ask if we are in the right place.

By: Phil Gerbyshak

Phil Gerbyshak — Tue, 30 May 2006 01:55:28 +0000

Great article John. You inspired me to write about this today, and I agree with all you’ve shared. Thanks for starting the conversation!

By: Rosa Say

Rosa Say — Sat, 27 May 2006 21:07:49 +0000

John thank you for the good words on Managing with Aloha and on the Daily Five Minutes.

However I want to shine a bright light of encouragement on your magnificent thought with this post, I LOVE your notion of reinvention to create Employee Evangelists within every company. It is a win-win-WIN all around: I can see no reason whatsoever why any employer, business owner, or manager would disagree!

I truly think that awareness of your idea is all it takes: work gets routine for everyone, and they simply need to look at it – and at all of it – through fresh eyes sometimes. That is what your post can provide, and I commend you for writing this coaching for us.
Much aloha,
Rosa

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Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching — Fri, 26 May 2006 17:45:09 +0000

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By: John

John — Fri, 26 May 2006 07:17:17 +0000

Thanks for the reply Mike. One of the best ways to spread the fire is to pass out Rosa’s book, “Managing with Aloha”. Rosa has taken the art of management and applied soulful Hawaiian values to it. The result is magic. Hawaiian values such as Aloha – unconditional love; Ho’ohana – working with intent and purpose; Ho’okipa – the hospitality of complete giving are just a few of the 18 values she expouses in the book.

I’ve ordered a couple of new copies and when they come in I’ll pass one along to you. Rosa’s ideas and values have changed the lives of many managers and leaders. A great read with many practical applications!

John