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How to Really Care for Employees

Gary Feldmar, president and sole owner of Excello Press, a $25-million printing company in Chicago, built his company on good human relations. Here are some examples of how he shows his people he cares about them: When the son of his sales manager was hurt trying to break up a fight in school, Gary sent the youngster a book on body-building and self-defense. A few weeks after his controller complimented him on a pipe he was smoking, Feldmar had one of his Sasieni Four Dots fitted with a new bit and gave it to him. The morning after Feldmar hired a new manager, the man?s wife received a bouquet of flowers to welcome her to the company. One of his salesmen had been putting in long hours traveling to take care of out-of-town customers, and he was having marital problems. The problem was magnified one morning when the salesman?s wife left her wedding ring in his jacket. When the salesman revealed his problem to Feldmar, he was given a two-week vacation, and Excello picked up the tab. Feldmar?s answer was, ?So it cost the company two weeks ? it was what he needed, and we want to keep our people happy.? (Joe Griffith, Speaker's Library of Business Quotes)

Everyone Fighting Hard Battles

Be kind. Remember everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. (Harry Thompson

Everyone Fighting Hard Battles

Be kind. Remember everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. (Harry Thompson)

Man Naturally is not Compassionate

Compassion is a sign of a truly great and generous heart. Compassion is understanding the troubles of others, coupled with an urgent desire to help. Man naturally is not compassionate. It is an attribute he must learn by living and by his own experiences. It is cultivating an ability to put himself in the other fellow?s shoes, remembering that all facts and circumstances influencing the other fellow cannot be know to him. Megiddo Message

Trip Inside a Broken Heart

Did you ever take a real trip down inside the broken heart of a friend? To feel the sob of the soul ? the raw, red crucible of emotional agony? To have this become almost as much yours as that of your soul-crushed neighbor? Then, to sit down with him ? and silently weep? This is the beginning of compassion. Jess Moody

The Mark of a True Christian

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian ? to help them is. Frank A. Clark

Teachers and Kindness

?It is very difficult to teach anything without kindness?.Pupils should feel that the teacher wants to help them, wants them to improve, is interested in their growth, is sorry for their mistakes, is pleased by their successes, and sympathetic with their inadequacies.? Gilbert Highest

Famine Demands Action

?I saw the horror of the Rwandan famine on TV. It was so unspeakable in its scope and sadness. I knew I, as a human being, had to take action. So I changed channels.? from a cartoon by Tom Gibb that appeared in the Altoona (PA) Mirror, Aug. 6

Faith Can't Lie Dormant

?True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormat. It clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all people.? Menno challenges our temptation to preach a gospel of saving grace short of a gospel if empowering grace. (From Menno, in ?What Christians could learn from Menno Simons and how he rescued the Anabaptist movement.?) (From the collection of Barry St. Clair)

What We Get From Giving

Jesus told us that it's more blessed to give than to receive. Although that seems like a contradiction, science is proving that helping others is good for your health. "A study done at the University of Michigan revealed that persons who regularly volunteer their time heighten their overall zest for living and increase their life expectancy. Studies on aging have reached a similar conclusion...Stress researchers from the University of Illinois found that persons who feel connected with other people are more calm, less tense...Giving can be disguised in many forms, from understanding to empathy, from compassion to acts of service. Whatever it takes, the core is still the same --giving of ourselves is offering love, and love remains the only gift that multiplies when you give it away. (From Halftime p. 142, From the collection of Barry St. Clair)

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