That 10 second clip sends chills down your spine, reveals their profession, and is clear, emotional and passionate! That’s because the Spartans Lived Their Story. At that time, the Spartans were the most highly trained fighting force in the world. From the age of seven, they lived and trained to be Spartans, to be soldiers – they Lived Their Story every day. When you met a Spartan, you knew in five minutes all the details behind why he was a Spartan and why that mattered. He Lived It, and you knew it.
Like the Spartans, your employees should be living your company’s story each and every day. Your company story must be told with clarity, conviction and passion. Is everyone in your company telling your story this way? Do they believe it? Are they Living Your Story?
How do you know? Start by looking at your messages, your sales and marketing tools, and how your people are being trained to deliver your company story. Is your company’s story clear, unique to you, important to your customers and defensible? Do your employees use your messages and tools every day, and believe what they say? Do they embrace your company’s story, rally around it, and convey it with emotion?
A great story is one that is clear, visual, and told with conviction and passion – one that all of your employees know by heart. You should be able to communicate your story in your marketing programs, a sales conversation, a follow-up email to a customer/prospect, or even in the proverbial elevator. But it’s not enough to know the story – you must Live The Story.
If you want to be the best in the world, this is not optional. You should be so passionate about what you do – your profession – that you’re pissed when people don’t buy from you. Not because you didn’t win, but because they just made a decision, or no decision, that puts their personal and company success at risk. If you don’t believe at this level, if you’re not passionate about what you do, then leave. You’re not Living Your Story. You’re working at the wrong company. Go find something you are passionate about, where you can be a Spartan. Go find a cause worth fighting for. And if you are a leader and you are not providing the leadership around the messages, tools and skills to tell your company story, then your level of commitment to your story does not match that of those you serve. You should leave; this is not your profession.
Is this harsh? Yes. I am not a sculptor, blacksmith or potter, I know my profession and I refuse to let you make the mistake of not Living Your Story.
I can say this with clarity, conviction and passion because, “you see old friend, I brought more soldiers than you did!” We help the best companies in the world Live Their Story by developing messages that matter, deploying tools that get used, and training on skills to deliver conversations that win!
karphead posted:sparta: for faggots
karphead: for fail posts
Superabound posted:the Spartans were successful because they embraced eugenics
Spartan reproductive policy actually resulted in a long population decline that steadily eroded their power
Squalid posted:Spartan reproductive policy actually resulted in a long population decline that steadily eroded their power
thats not what happened in the movie
"... Accordingly, they said they had no wish to be dragged hither and thither to destruction every year, they themselves so many, and the Lacedaemonians, with whom they followed, so few. It was at this time, we are told, that Agesilaus, wishing to refute their argument from numbers, devised the following scheme. He ordered all the allies to sit down by themselves promiscuously, the Lacedaemonians apart by themselves. Then his herald called upon the potters to stand up first, and after them the smiths, next, the carpenters in their turn, and the builders, and so on through all the handicrafts. In response, almost all the allies rose up, but not a man of the Lacedaemonians; for they were forbidden to learn or practise a manual art. Then Agesilaus said with a laugh: "You see, O men, how many more soldiers than you we are sending out.""
Agesilowned.
The article in the op completely misinterprets it all. It is a much deeper issue than simply whether the Spartans were pumped about being soldiers, and it is wrong to try to transfer the Spartan excitement over to other fields of work. The Spartan state took a holistic approach to creating its citizenry; being a Spartan generally meant undergoing the agoge and being accepted to a mess, obedience to a set of regulations and traditions that defined who you were since birth, it was a whole ethos; Spartans were martial gentlemen given to philosophy and discipline. Some grubby american serving chips at mcdonalds is never going to be a Spartan, no matter how excited he gets. HOO-AH.
karphead posted:sparta: for faggots
You're thinking of THEBES.
*High-fives Xenophon and walks out*
karphead posted:sparta: for faggots
It might sound far-fetched that a quirky collection of teapots would draw 60,000 tourists each year to Sparta, N.C., population 18,000. But the plan is being financed by your tax dollars.
The Sparta Teapot Museum is the brainchild of avid teapot collectors Sonny and Gloria Kamm and North Carolina philanthropist Philip Hanes — as in Hanes underwear.
"Why can't there be a teapot hall of fame?" asked Sonny Kamm. "And we said, 'why not!'"
Sparta Town Manager Bryan Edwards admits it's something of a gamble.
When asked whether he thinks this teapot museum would really make a difference to the economy here, the mayor said, "That's hard to say. Clearly it's speculative; there are risks involved. We don't have a track record."
But with the help of a few good Washington lobbyists, the Sparta Teapot Museum has gotten $400,000 in state funds and $500,000 from Congress.
It's nothing against teapots or the dream. Maybe tens of thousands of teapot-seeking tourists will flock into Sparta and spend millions of dollars. But the question is this: Why should your federal tax dollars be used for this local project?
Attkisson asked Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., who, with Sen. Richard Burr, got the Teapot Museum its money. They also received several thousand dollars in campaign contributions from the project's lobbyists.
Foxx told us she's simply claiming a share of the money Congress sets aside each year for such purposes, called "earmarks."
"The money's gonna be spent, and it's up to us to again be advocates for our areas to try to help with those areas," Foxx said.
They say the money is there, why shouldn't we have a piece of it — so what's wrong with that?
"That is exactly the kind of attitude that got us $29 billion in pork in 2006," said Leslie Paige of Citizens Against Government Waste.
That's right, $29 billion worth of race-car research, something called the Cattle Congress — and teapot museums.
"I don't see how a teapot museum is a national priority, under any circumstances," Paige said.
Some of the teapots are on display downtown until the museum is built next year. An hour and a half from the nearest airport, it's a bit of a trip, but the folks in Sparta hope it's your next vacation destination.
They sure would appreciate your continued support.
Giving humans simple, direct and ignorant poses and slogans are always going to win out over handwringing, 'people's microphones' and other fetishes of the egghead/malcontent classes.
gyrofry posted:Spartans, what is your profession?!! Are you a Warrior? Killer? Slicin' shit like a samurah? Ol' dirty clan of terrorists? Comin' at your ass like a sorceress? Shootin' that piss?
your takin the piss, mate De4zd0utB_s
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Lykourgos posted:This misattribution to King Leonidas started by 300 is downright offensive; it was King AGESILAUS who humiliated all the inferior people. God damn it America.
"... Accordingly, they said they had no wish to be dragged hither and thither to destruction every year, they themselves so many, and the Lacedaemonians, with whom they followed, so few. It was at this time, we are told, that Agesilaus, wishing to refute their argument from numbers, devised the following scheme. He ordered all the allies to sit down by themselves promiscuously, the Lacedaemonians apart by themselves. Then his herald called upon the potters to stand up first, and after them the smiths, next, the carpenters in their turn, and the builders, and so on through all the handicrafts. In response, almost all the allies rose up, but not a man of the Lacedaemonians; for they were forbidden to learn or practise a manual art. Then Agesilaus said with a laugh: "You see, O men, how many more soldiers than you we are sending out.""
Agesilowned.
The article in the op completely misinterprets it all. It is a much deeper issue than simply whether the Spartans were pumped about being soldiers, and it is wrong to try to transfer the Spartan excitement over to other fields of work. The Spartan state took a holistic approach to creating its citizenry; being a Spartan generally meant undergoing the agoge and being accepted to a mess, obedience to a set of regulations and traditions that defined who you were since birth, it was a whole ethos; Spartans were martial gentlemen given to philosophy and discipline. Some grubby american serving chips at mcdonalds is never going to be a Spartan, no matter how excited he gets. HOO-AH.
karphead posted:sparta: for faggots
You're thinking of THEBES.
*High-fives Xenophon and walks out*
Meursault posted:Lykourgos posted:This misattribution to King Leonidas started by 300 is downright offensive; it was King AGESILAUS who humiliated all the inferior people. God damn it America.
"... Accordingly, they said they had no wish to be dragged hither and thither to destruction every year, they themselves so many, and the Lacedaemonians, with whom they followed, so few. It was at this time, we are told, that Agesilaus, wishing to refute their argument from numbers, devised the following scheme. He ordered all the allies to sit down by themselves promiscuously, the Lacedaemonians apart by themselves. Then his herald called upon the potters to stand up first, and after them the smiths, next, the carpenters in their turn, and the builders, and so on through all the handicrafts. In response, almost all the allies rose up, but not a man of the Lacedaemonians; for they were forbidden to learn or practise a manual art. Then Agesilaus said with a laugh: "You see, O men, how many more soldiers than you we are sending out.""
Agesilowned.
The article in the op completely misinterprets it all. It is a much deeper issue than simply whether the Spartans were pumped about being soldiers, and it is wrong to try to transfer the Spartan excitement over to other fields of work. The Spartan state took a holistic approach to creating its citizenry; being a Spartan generally meant undergoing the agoge and being accepted to a mess, obedience to a set of regulations and traditions that defined who you were since birth, it was a whole ethos; Spartans were martial gentlemen given to philosophy and discipline. Some grubby american serving chips at mcdonalds is never going to be a Spartan, no matter how excited he gets. HOO-AH.
karphead posted:sparta: for faggots
You're thinking of THEBES.
*High-fives Xenophon and walks out*
jeffery posted:Meursault posted:Lykourgos posted:This misattribution to King Leonidas started by 300 is downright offensive; it was King AGESILAUS who humiliated all the inferior people. God damn it America.
"... Accordingly, they said they had no wish to be dragged hither and thither to destruction every year, they themselves so many, and the Lacedaemonians, with whom they followed, so few. It was at this time, we are told, that Agesilaus, wishing to refute their argument from numbers, devised the following scheme. He ordered all the allies to sit down by themselves promiscuously, the Lacedaemonians apart by themselves. Then his herald called upon the potters to stand up first, and after them the smiths, next, the carpenters in their turn, and the builders, and so on through all the handicrafts. In response, almost all the allies rose up, but not a man of the Lacedaemonians; for they were forbidden to learn or practise a manual art. Then Agesilaus said with a laugh: "You see, O men, how many more soldiers than you we are sending out.""
Agesilowned.
The article in the op completely misinterprets it all. It is a much deeper issue than simply whether the Spartans were pumped about being soldiers, and it is wrong to try to transfer the Spartan excitement over to other fields of work. The Spartan state took a holistic approach to creating its citizenry; being a Spartan generally meant undergoing the agoge and being accepted to a mess, obedience to a set of regulations and traditions that defined who you were since birth, it was a whole ethos; Spartans were martial gentlemen given to philosophy and discipline. Some grubby american serving chips at mcdonalds is never going to be a Spartan, no matter how excited he gets. HOO-AH.
karphead posted:sparta: for faggots
You're thinking of THEBES.
*High-fives Xenophon and walks out*
gyrofry posted:is that a toothbrush on top of th ebeer
p sure it's a slim jim
Ironicwarcriminal posted:if you wonder why Reactionaries always win while the left flounders then look no further than the OP.
Giving humans simple, direct and ignorant poses and slogans are always going to win out
ISO
roseweird posted:lykourgos would you say you are a warrior and honor the spartan ethic in your life
AHHOO AHHOO AHHOO I am a true internet warrior on the forum of battle!
tpaine is the cripple who betrays sparta for a wizard's hat.
roseweird posted:recent archaeology suggests spartans were actually big gay babies
wait... am i a spartan?
getfiscal posted:i wouldn't want to lay with that cold fish... the seafood looks bad too!
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