The Fred Factor : How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary

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Summary: Very Helpful
Review: This book was extremely helpful for me in identifying the importance of passion in my life. Also wonderful was a dvd I found here on amazn called "New Free Sex" which helped me to bring more passion into my most intimate areas of life, without being offensive or pornographic in ANY way.

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Summary: Fred shows us the way
Review: This real life story has the potential to change our lives. I loved every word in this short book especially after a very recent Fred experience. I can confirm that Freds exist and we need to learn a lot from such great souls, though they may be employed in very ordinary jobs.

Last fortnight, while on a short vacation with my family on the west coast of India we had engaged a taxi for four days for sight seeing. Suddenly there was a local strike on a sensitive political issue and all roads were blocked. While we were feeling very insecure and afraid of being caught in mob fury in the middle of our tour, the taxi driver made sure that he took us to our hotel safely, talking his way through small groups of miscreants who tried stopping vehicles from plying. We had to stay overnight at a hotel to continue the journey the next day when normalcy was restored. To my surprise, the taxi driver would not charge us anything for the extra time he had spent for us and on the other hand was feeling sorry that we were inconvenienced during our vacation. He invited us to visit the place once again so that he could take us to some more interesting places nearby. While he dropped us off at the airport, I just couldn't resist hugging him with a big THANK YOU from our family. I promptly rewarded him with a fat tip for taking such good care of us. Exceptional service from a very ordinary taxi driver.

This book teaches us to become Freds, locate Freds and create Freds. Mark, I am grateful to you for this extraordinary book. I also salute the real Fred who works for the U.S. Postal service in Denver who inspired you to write the book.

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Summary: The HEART of business.
Review: What I love about The Fred Factor is that it counters the notion that to succeed in business means somehow abandoning your values. Mark Sanborn makes a case that success in business, or life, for that matter, is a matter of embracing the values of service, caring, and doing the right thing. This is a book that should be standard issue for every employee of every company. Outstanding!