Rob Jolles http://jolles.com/blarticle Innovative Training Solutions Fri, 18 May 2012 10:00:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 A Most Unusual Nickname http://jolles.com/blarticle/2012/05/a-most-unusual-nickname/ http://jolles.com/blarticle/2012/05/a-most-unusual-nickname/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 10:00:26 +0000 Rob Jolles http://jolles.com/blarticle/?p=828 Through our lives, we may be called a nickname or two.  I had plenty of them.  When I was five years old, my hair was very short, and my Dad called me “bur head.”  If it came from my Dad, it was alright by me.  I was called “Broadway” in high school, “Peppy” in college, and “The Rocket” in business.  But at a financial conference in San Antonio, in front of an audience of almost 1,000 people,  I was called a nickname that threw me, but only for a moment or two.

 

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