When I first met Joel… |
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August 26th, 2007 -- by Jenny Floren
I know that when you read the title of this post, you **immediately** drew to your mind YOUR first introduction to Joel - which is just one more sign of the impact Joel has on each of us, and the industry in which we all participate.
Although I’ve been a fan for years, my first in-person meeting with Joel was at the ERE conference in San Diego earlier this year… immediately following his on-stage interview of Jobster’s CEO. After watching what I believed was a complete, have-no-mercy, like-watching-a-car-wrech-in-slow-motion, so-painful-you-almost-(and I do mean “almost”)-feel-sorry-for-Goldberg thrashing (with questions like: “Ok, Jobster has had about 17,389 different business models since inception - what do you really want to be when you grow up?” Ouch…), I almost choked on my conference-supplied peppermint when Joel posed his first question to me: “Do you think I went too easy on him?”
Joel loves to stir things up - and that’s why I adore him. He is creative, insightful - and has started a fresh, new conversation in our world that’s otherwise filled with the language of jobs, work, career, employment, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..
IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP!!!
I hold the honor of being the first of Joel’s interview subjects to take the camera, and turn it back on Joel… and, just as I suspected, he is a living model of the advice he shared with his audience: “Get out there, follow your passion, and don’t be afraid to shake it up.”
Love it.
And by the way, Joel - I’m still waiting for you to send me that video clip so I can share it with the Experience network….!
September 18th, 2007 at 6:40 am
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