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The Direct Connection Between Values And Success

January 30, 2012 By Jeff Turner 4 Comments

Your values are your true brand. I believe this without reservation. There is real power in clearly identifying and articulating your core mission and values, and making them a prominent behavior driver, both in your business and in your personal life. Two stories caught my eye this past week and they each take a different approach to […]

Kenya Exposed More Than Just My Emotions

January 27, 2012 By Jeff Turner 42 Comments

I didn’t write a single word while I was in Kenya. I snapped over 3000 photos and videos. I updated Twitter and Facebook and Path in the morning or the evening when I had access. But I did not sit down to write like this at all during my 21 days outside of the United […]

Of Netbooks, Kenya And Perspective

December 27, 2011 By Jeff Turner 18 Comments

“Can I help you?” “Yes,” I said. “I’d like to buy this Gateway netbook” If you know me, that’s not a sentence I thought would ever come out of my mouth. But that’s the whole point of this story. I wasn’t buying it for me, I was buying it for Mary, the first of the […]

I’m Going To Kenya To Meet My Daughters

December 26, 2011 By Jeff Turner 29 Comments

“I’ve found two more daughters.” Those are the words I was greeted with when my wife, Rocky, returned from what we thought was going to be her “once in a lifetime” volunteer trip to Kenya with Global Volunteer Network in October of 2007. She had fallen in love with the girls at St. Monica’s Children’s […]