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ScottMP

I had a great time and feel privilidged to have met all of you.

Noel was right, much better than last time.

Thanks to Chuck Shaw for Dinner Friday night

Thanks to Wirsbo and Danfoss for Sat. dinner

Now I know why everbody likes Wheels

Now I know why everybody likes Cheese

Best jerky I've ever had

Sat down Sat. morning next to my first Wallie friend
Nice to SEE you Mark W.

Three Cheers for Dan ... Once again I am energized and full of new ideas. watch out Chris.

Heres some deep conversation going on.

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ScottMP

Best installers

On the east coast !!!

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Mad Dog and The Sheriff

Mad Dog was over served. Thats my story and I am sticking to it. No picture of Mark Hunt, I dont think he ever sat down.

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ScottMP

Deep conversations

Talk about a meeting of the minds

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Mark Hunt

Gotta' keep movin'


I stood still at the bar Friday night and you KNOW how that turned out!!!

I'd REALLY like to thank my new bestest buddy WHEELS for the "gift".

It didn't fit so I had to send it back.

It was great to meet everyone(except the "gift").

Thanks to Munchkin Man for dinner Friday night.

I tried to meet everyone but I know I didn't.

Scott, I told that joke about the farmers party to some friends and got a huge laugh. THANKS!!!

Thanks to Dan and family for making it all possible.

Mark H

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ScottMP

No Copper anymore !

"Besides its such a poor conductor of heat"

How'd you like to be in on this conversation.



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ScottMP

Size does matter

The largest in the industry

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ScottMP

Common ground

A cold beer and good conversation.

I could have had this one conversation and made my whole weekend.

ScottMP

John Barba allways draws a crowd

Hey Cheese are you trying to look down Floyds shirt ?

Or maybe checking out ......

Maybe Johns giving directions to the Bar ....

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ScottMP

Ken Fagen and Ellen

Hey HR, if I know Ken Fagen ... I would be worried .


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ScottMP

The bar

This was the place to be....

I don't see her anywhere Mark...

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ScottMP

The rumor

One picture tells a thousand words !!!!

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ScottMP

I got a million of em...

I forgot about the Muchkin man picking up dinner.

I guess He must have thrown my forty on the floor

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J.C.A.

Thanks Boss !

Thanks for the photos. I saw a lot more cameras there ! Still waiting for the photos of (VERY BAD)Mad Dog .

Cris.

Unknown

Another Present Another Time

Hey Mike,

I'll try and get a better fit next time:-)

It was great to meet you.. and everyone else.

Now I have most of the faces to go with the names!!!!

Wheels

Unknown

thanks Scott!

Scott,

This picture really represents the time had by all. The weekend was a giant get together with 200 of your closest friends. You could walk up, sit down, and join anywhere from 1 (having a beer with Ken Secor) to 25 (dinner at "naked fish") and always feel VERY welcome.

Great conversation, great friendship, great fellowship.

Now, where can I take this road again???

wheels

Mark Hunt

uhhhhh.......


"Mike"?

Oh! I get it!!!!!


I had a great time Steve, but no mre persents PLEASE!!!!!!!!


MARK H

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Steve Levine

Now I can see it better

NM

DanHolohan

Yep,

that says it all.

ScottMP

If we had a yearbook

That would be the picture on the last page.

Thanks to all

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Al \"Ace\" Levi

Nice Photos

Hey nice photos except for the bald headed guy sitting at Hot Rod's table. Oh wait a minute...that's me.

Anyway, it was wonderful to put the faces to the internet names. I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to learn and to share with some the best and the brightest our industry has to offer.

My thanks to Dan for setting it all up and to you for taking the time away from your business to be with all of us.

Al "Ace" Levi

PS: I'll make a separate post with some thoughts exchanged at the "company policies" table while I was there

Al \"Ace\" Levi

Some thoughts from the \"Company Policies\" table

Here are some of the notes I took while at the "Company Policies" table:

Unfortunately, people associate "Policies" with "Police"
it's really about getting the housekeeping out of the way so you may be free to focus on the job at hand.

Would you want to fly in an airplane where the pilot felt free to skip the checklist and to follow his own procedures?

Set a goal. Set how to measure objectively. Create a policy [what we do]. Create a procedure [how we do it]. Track what you're measuring. Analyze that.

Progressive discipline can be: a discussion [verbal warning], a write-up, a suspension and a dismissal

The owner's two real jobs are to "Inspire" [share the vision] and to "Implement" [create the repeatable systems that work]

If you were at the "company policies" table, I'd love to hear what you thought was worth sharing.

Al "Ace" Levi

munchkin-man

i had a great time

it was nice to finally see the faces of the many stories told over the time passed. For those of you i was furtuneate enough to have spent time with and you have thanked me your welcome.
My wife was violently ill all night friday and I had to take her home early am Saturday.
Stay in touch and lets keep the lines a comunication open. Hope this happens next year so we can do it agian. Oh and by the way I here scott has a peice of string with sticky stuff on it that laches on to money right in front of your eyes. I bet he will throw a good party.HA! SEE YA

ScottMP

I telling ya

I get no respect, jeesss.

Hey Jeff thanks for your time and the beer. Hope your wife is feeling better. I heard Mad dog got the same bug.

Scott

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Mark Hunt

Mad Dog had


a self induced bug.

Apparently ice cubes make him sick!!!

Hope all is well with Mrs.Munchkin Man!

Mark H

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Online Sheriff \"Murph\"

UHHHH..........

HMMMMMMMMMMMMM .....!!!!

Dale W.

Great Time

Thanks Jeff for the dinner on Friday. Hope your wife's feeling better.
I got in on Friday about 2:00 and met Dave Broome at the bar where we sat and talked heating for about an hour in the peace and quiet. Timmie came in with his wife and again in the quiet of the place we talked about business. Then in came "The Three M's. Mad Dog, Mark and Murph. Boy, the mood kinda changed. I think I now know why Murph's the sheriff. Someone has to keep those two boys in line.
It was great putting faces to names, slamming a few drinks and sharing ideas. Scott, I swear I didn't see that 40.
I guess I was the old guy at the table when Scott and JRH were sharing photos of their little kids and I'm showing pictures of my 20 and 21 year girls. The girls keep on hugging dad, even when they grow up.
I left on Sunday morning, drove to Loon Mountain in NH and skiied for a few hours before driving home to Delaware. Got home about 11PM.
It made for a long day and capped off a fun and educational weekend.
Dan this is something I would do again in a heartbeat.
The day passed too quickly.

Dale W. from Delaware

DanHolohan

It did go by in a flash, didn't it?

Great to have you there, Dale. Thanks.

Unknown

Okay Scott

two pictures at my table and I am not in any of them. Fluffy is very upset that her owner is not on the Wall of Fame.

ScottMP

ooppss

What kind of a suck up am I. Not even smart enough to take a picture of the teacher. Sorry Pal !

Allways a pleasure to be with you and Judy, Tim. I feel I should have sat in one place a little longer, but everytime I sat down, I saw someone else I wanted to say hello to.

It was great to have fluffys master there, you allways add to the mix.

The weekend allways goes by to quickly when your with friends. But, YOU , I KNOW, I will see soon !!!!!

Scott

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Steve Ebels

I think

Scott is going for the longest post record again.

Mark Walnicki

A few of my notes

What a great roundtable! Took most of my notes here.

I too had noted the owner's two jobs. It was also brought up that one is no good without the other.

Other notes:

-Procedures and policies can be applied to any aspect of a business, from how to reprimand, down to how to wash the company vehicles.

-If an employee is having problems outside of work, it should not be allowed to interfere with their professional life. One approach is to let the employee know you understand they are encountering difficulty with their life outside of work, but you refuse to let their professional life slide down with it. If things are bad, they're only going to get a whole lot worse without a job.

Another approach is the analogy of going to see Don Mattingly and the Yankees play. When you show up at that stadium, do you care what he did the night before, or what he does with his free time? No, but you do expect him to show up at his job, and give it 100%. He does not let his personal life interfere with his work performance, and it's no different for anyone else, in any other job.

-Find a niche! Form a partnership with other companies. If you're a fuel oil company that doesn't like to do plumbing, then find a plumbing company that doesn't like to do fuel oil, and agree to recommend each other.

-To achieve our goals of having what we want, we must first:

BE - who are you? What do you want out of life?

then:

DO - Go out and do it. Jumpstart things by "acting as if" and "fake it until you make it". Study successful people, and then emulate them.

-I think this had to do with selling. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

"When you're asking questions, you're right, when you're talking you're wrong."

-for policies and procedures: ANYTHING is better than nothing!

Mark

p.s. the only other note I took of the day was when I found out from Mark Eatherton that painting copper "Flat Elm Leaf Green" gives copper pipe the biggest heat output... man, what a great day!