Jack Perry's Respect Factor

5 Steps for Increasing Your Perseverance

by Jack Perry

When Winston Churchill was a young boy, many people considered him intellectually challenged. Perhaps because of that perception, he pushed himself to extraordinary heights, going on to become Britain’s Prime Minister and to lead the country through its darkest hours. He delivered a commencement address in which he said  simply, “Never, never, never quit.” And then he sat down.

How to Bounce Back from Any Setback

by Jack Perry

Success isn’t measured by how many times you get knocked down; it’s measured by whether or not you choose to get up. Your life is like a book—but  it’s non-fiction, rather than a fairy tale. Some chapters contain tales of great success and happiness, and some feature failure and sadness. When you experience the inevitable challenging times in life, how do you react? Do you wallow in self-pity and let the experience cripple you, or do you take the challenge head on and remain positive and bounce right back? You can choose.

Don’t Give Up: Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Greater Success

by Jack Perry

Have you ever been working toward a goal and, no matter what you did, something always set you back? Maybe you wanted to leave the office early and every time you thought you had your work finished, you’d get an urgent e-mail from a supplier or a frantic phone call from a client. No matter how hard you tried to smooth everything over, some obstacle would fall in your path and your goal of going home would seem a little more out of reach.

Achieve Greater Success by Eliminating Trash Talk

By Jack Perry

Sadly, trash talk is an inevitable part of life for far too many people. Especially in business, some people always seem to have something negative to say about their competition, their co-workers, or their clients. Regardless of how much trash people talk, it never has a positive outcome. It destroys trust and often comes back to haunt you.

How to Be More Successful by Overcoming Greed

By Jack Perry

Greed is an unfortunate sickness that all too often flourishes in the business world. While a desire to be wealthy and successful can be important to an individual, those desires can go too far and actually cause people severe life-time  pain. Remember Michael Douglas’s character from the movie Wall Street? During his speech to stockholders he said, “Greed is good… it works.” But in the end of the story, greed destroyed him and ruined his successful career.

How to Bring Integrity into Your Workplace

By Jack Perry

In all areas of your life , character goes before the prize. Having a firmly entrenched code of honor and being a person of integrity are much more important than making money, winning fame, or earning any other prize life can offer. With integrity as your compass, you will gain the respect of your clients and prospects. And with respect, you have the foundation to build a relationship.

Change the Whole World with the Incredible Power of One

By Jack Perry

Rosa Parks was a small, seemingly powerless individual who defied a whole culture of domination with a single courageous act and ignited a fire of justice that swept our nation.

Rights vs. Privileges: Building the New American Dream

By Jack Perry

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.” – John Wooden

Remember the American Dream? Americans used to believe that anyone, no matter how humble his or her beginnings, through determination and courage, could attain prosperity. After World War II, in the final heyday of the American Dream, a new generation felt as if they were entitled by birth to many things that their forebears earned by dint of hard work and sacrifice. The Declaration of Independence’s promise of the inalienable rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” came to mean for many a guarantee – without cost – that each individual had a right to whatever pleased him or her,

Compromising Positions: What Is (and Is NOT) For Sale?

by Jack Perry

“Nothing gives so much to a person's life as a set of principles.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes we might perceive that everything and everybody is for sale. We watch TV and see being carted off to jail those people who sold their lives away for a grab at the corporate till. We drive past a high school and see parents trying to buy their kids’ respect with expensive clothes and fancy cars. Everywhere you go you can see the nouveau riche, those who have bought the toys and trapping of success. At work, we might see employees giving lip service to a boss who basically bought their toadyism by making them fearful of losing their jobs.