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I’m reading a book about called “Mojo: How To Get It, How To Keep It, How To Get It Back If You Lose It” by Marshall Goldsmith. It’s a pretty good read. It talks a lot about motivational fit and making sure the job or situation you have is one that you’re skilled for and that brings you personal satisfaction.
There’s also a very interesting quote in the book that deals with handling troubling situations. There’s the manly way to do it, to meet it head on and “handle your business.”
Or there’s the Toyota way…
The quote is “You can’t diffuse a bomb once it’s gone off.”
Toyota had a chance to diffuse their bomb recently but instead chose to point the finger. When multitudes of people are telling you that there’s a problem with your product, you can either address it or you can point the finger back and say it’s “user error” (hate that term). Toyota did the latter, saying their customers imagined it. Now the bomb has gone off and it’s too late.
From here on out, Toyota will always be met with skepticism. They can put out the best cars in the world, but the public will always be leery. They might not be able to recover from this in the court of public opinion. Instead of handling their business, they wimped out, and now, they have a sh*tstorm on their hands.
This applies to you too. As a man, handle your business, or you may never be able to regain the trust you’ve lost. It’s always better to get in front of something and try to diffuse it early than to hid and deal with it later. Whether it be from a bill collector, a disappointed kid, or a spouse whose birthday you forgot, grow a set, man up and get in front of it…
…because once the bomb goes off, it’s too late.
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I can mos def dig this!! I like the way you compared the two. If you ever notice a bomb starts ticking real loud once it almost about to blow. It applies to when ppl try to avoid a problem the refuse to solve asap.
Glad to see your back babe!!!!
I need some advice for my blog….I like your layout. Can you help me?
I tend to agree with what you post here, but in this case I must say that I do not share your views.
Thanks, Sunny. Like EPMD, I “took a break for a while, but now I’m back again.”
Did I just show my age with the EPMD reference?
Be glad to help. I’ve had people help me and I’m more than willing to pass it on. What in particular were you looking for? Hit me up at trueman@manamongboys.com.
First, welcome to Man Among Boys.
We don’t always have to agree. Love me or hate me, I just want to make you think a little bit. I agree, disagree, argue with, and debate people all the time. If we all agreed on the time, there would never be any new ideas and we’d never make any progress.
I hope you’ll come back.
“I tend to agree… but this time I don’t” WTF is that about? LMBAO grow a pair and tell us why. LMBAO
It’s the Tiger issue if he would have manned up and said it early no one could’ve made up all kinds of crap and continue to sh*t on him in the media.
Hi there! I found your blog via Google while searching about SEO.And your post looks very interesting and informative to me.
Thanks, Stephen. Make sure to come back to Man Among Boys. We’re going to get into a lot of interesting stuff…manly stuff.
Interesting article. Where did you got all the information from.Great article,nice site!
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And want to ask you: is this blog your hobby?
P.S. Sorry for my bad english
Thanks, Piter, and welcome. It’s a hobby and a way of reaching out. It will expand to other, but the minute it stops being fun, it’s a wrap. Come back again!
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I work with the same web theme on mine though for whatever explanation it seems to reload speedier on this site eventhough yours seems to have a whole lot more content. Are you implementing any kind of plugins or widgets that speed it up? If you could quite possibly show the plug ins so I can use them on my own resource site so twilight new moon supporters could watch twilight eclipse online trailers and films swifter I’d personally be happy – kudos in advance 
I really like when people are expressing their opinion and thought. So I like the way you are writing
Thank you. You’ll get a lot of opinions here, trust me. Make sure that you come back. We’re going to tackle a lot more stuff.
Thanks for coming through, Robert. You give me far too much credit on the site; I wish I was that tech savvy. I’ve probably broken this site more times from downloading something stupid than anything else. I don’t have any special plugins to speed up the site. I have some basic ones for the tag cloud and you tube, but other than that nothing special. I downloaded it from http://www.web2feel.com so maybe they have something special on there.
Wonderful insight
lol ok so this is precisely how brainless I am, midway through reading your post I dropped my mouse and shut down the site by accident and I could not find your page once again right up until 4 days afterwards to finish reading from the spot i had left off because I forgot how I linked to your blog to begin with ahaha anyhow it was worth the hold out..many thanks