Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. ~Andrew Carnegie
As I write this first Presidents letter I am reflecting upon the 5 years of my chamber membership. The past 5 years have been both the most difficult as well as the most rewarding in my life. I made tons of mistakes and had many failures and some accomplishments The biggest change that has taken place is going from an agent in a local Real Estate office to the owner of my own Real Estate company.
I attribute this major accomplishment firstly to the support of my Mother, Eileen and my 2 daughters, Olivia & Juila, but had it not been for my experiences on both the Chamber Board of Directors and The Co-Chair person of the Shop Putnam Business and Home Expo 2007, 2008 & 2009, I would never have had the opportunity to have learned the lessons (some of them hard lessons!) necessary to run a business.
That being said, the reason for the quote up top is to share with you my new found love & respect for Team Work. If you were at The Expo this year that is exactly what that Day was all about, team work. We all utilized our individual strengths to accomplish something that individually would be impossible. At times it felt like we were the Egyptians building the Pyramids one Brick at time and that it would never come together. But this year's Expo was an amazing success that far exceeded the prior years. All because of the Combined effort of all involved.
The next amazing result of team work is the new series of Television Commercials featuring Chamber businesses that will be airing shortly. Charlie Melchner came up with a CRAZY idea and his ground breaking vision combined with some practical application from Tom O'leary, Kevin Bailey & myself resulted in one of the most beneficial member benefits I have ever seen (next to the directory of course). But that is just my humble opinion.
There are so many benefits to being a member of this Chamber of Commerce and one of our first tasks this year is to make sure you are aware of all of them as well as growing them by leaps and bounds.
Thank you to the members for voting me in again and thank you to the board, whom I consider my dear friends for having enough confidence in making me President. Together let's make this a year of growth & success.
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