Fact-A-Day from Harry K. Harry K. Jones on 24 May 2007 11:00 am
Fact-A-Day Update
Today I received an e-mail from a perfect stranger. Apparently this person had received copies of our “Fact-A-Day from Harry K.” for the past six weeks … forwarded to her from a fellow employee. She said she found our “Facts” humorous, interesting, and educational and is now taking them home to share with her family. In fact, her children, 5 and 7 years old, are now asking her for more “Facts” each week.
She sent the e-mail to inquire about the origin of this blog feature. She shared the fact that she was now passing our column on to several other friends and family members and was recently asked how it originated. She evidently didn’t check out our earlier entries, which are all available on the blog. The first installment explained why we decided to share a fact-a-day with our readers. In fact, since that time we have shared well over 200 “Facts” and have received great responses and support for our efforts.
This afternoon I replied to her e-mail explaining that this popular blog feature actually came about as a result of a mutual challenge that was issued following a keynote presentation to the leadership council of a major midwest university several years ago. After the program, I had the opportunity to chat with several of the students who were very interested in C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement). Long story short, we challenged one another to put forth an effort to learn one single new fact every day from that day on. To this day, I still communicate with several of those unique students.
I’ve mentioned this challenge to many audiences since that day and have received numerous requests to share my “Fact-A-Day” findings. Therefore, in early December of last year, we began sharing our “Facts” via our blog. In fact, many of the facts we’ve shared thus far have been provided to us by some of those audience members. If you’d like to contribute some of your own interesting facts, please send them to us, and we’ll be happy to share them with our readers.
If you’d like to review earlier “Facts,” you can find them all available on our blog. We hope you enjoy these tidbits of information and will pass them on to others as we all continue our quest for Continuous And Never-ending Improvement!
Harry K. Jones is a professional speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed keynote presentations, seminars, and consulting services. Harry has appeared all over North America addressing topics such as change, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork and time management for a number of industries, including education, financial, government, healthcare, hospitality, and manufacturing. For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.
