Jettexcellence Blog http://www.jettexcellence.com/blog Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:38:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Anti-Entrepreneurial Bent http://www.jettexcellence.com/blog/index.php/anti-entrepreneurial-bent/ http://www.jettexcellence.com/blog/index.php/anti-entrepreneurial-bent/#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:05:21 +0000 admin http://www.jettexcellence.com/blog/?p=5 When I was a child, my parents owned their own flower shop. From the time I was around 6, I remember going to the shop with my parents, hanging out in the Montgomeryville Mart, and playing under the displays. By the time I was 10, I had convinced my Mom that it was a good idea to let me run the cash register.

Along with the happy memories, I have even more distinct memories that were not so pleasant.

  • Mom coming home on Mother’s Day so tired from making and delivering arrangements for other people that she had no energy to enjoy the day herself.
  • Getting a call in the middle of Thanksgiving dinner that the storage van was on fire.
  • Overhearing conversations about employees who stole, didn’t show up, or caused other stress.
  • Periodically seeing the financial situation at home change.

As a result, I grew up knowing that there was absolutely no way that I ever wanted to run my own business. It was my goal to work for someone else and have a steady and reliable pay check each and every week. So I became a management accountant. (One that works inside a company, keeping the books.)

My husband spoke to me wistfully at times about farming full-time; about having a produce stand that would provide his income. I told him he was nuts…but he kept dreaming.

And then, one day just before I turned 40, I woke up and realized that I didn’t want to do this anymore. I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do, but I needed a change.

I quit my job, and to make a long story extremely brief, after 9 months of soul searching, I decided to start my own business. And so, Jett Excellence was born. Not too long afterwards, my husband left his job also and started farming full-time. Today, I am where I never, ever envisioned being – an entrepreneurial family!

What is your story?

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To me, business values are about a company placing a stake in the ground and declaring what the company stands for: Customer Service, Fun, Superior Quality, People First, etc. They are the rules by which business is transacted 100% of the time. They are the measuring stick by which employees are measured. And they are the guiding principles that employees can look to when they are faced with a situation that is new to them.

And I believe that when these ‘business values’ are disseminated across an organization they begin to raise awareness. They make people question how they are currently doing business. They help leadership develop appropriate strategy. And they become a daily part of how business is done.

Some believe that raising awareness is a way to effect change on a large scale. I can only hope that the awareness raised by many organizations adopting ‘business values’ will effect similar change in the business and economic environment!

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June 6, 2010
IMA’s 91st Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, MD
Visit http://www.imaconference.org/ for more information.

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March 25, 2010
Moravian Bookshop, Bethlehem, PA
Visit http://www.moravianbookshop.com/ for more information.

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March 4, 2010
Montgomery County Community College
Visit MCCC Website for more information.

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February 17, 2010
Consumer Solutions Seminar – Unlocking the Mystery of Consumers
Leesport, PA
Telephone 610-391-9840 for more information.

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North Penn Chapter of IMA
Visit http://www.northpenn.imanet.org/htmls/meetings.htm for more information.

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