{"id":2539,"date":"2007-09-13T16:11:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T20:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ewm.com\/2007\/09\/13\/how-my-mba-from-the-xerox-institute-paid-off\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T16:11:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T20:11:36","slug":"how-my-mba-from-the-xerox-institute-paid-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=2539","title":{"rendered":"How my MBA from the Xerox Institute paid off…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"London\"<\/a>As the story begins, I was born amidst the smoke stacked chimneys, one foggy morning in London. As a young child I had always aspired to make something of my life, to escape from the drudgery that lied ahead. Opportunity knocked, and one day, aboard the Queen Mary I made the most arduous trip of my life across the seas to come to a place of magnificence known as America.<\/p>\n

Several years later, good fortune washed ashore to a tropical island known as Miami Beach, to a place where I now call home and landed me job in a prestigious Real Estate Company, by the name of EWM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The interview process was touch and go. Even with 15 years of management behind my belt and a cute accent, I had the fear that I wasn’t going to be able to close this one and then I remembered something, my trump card.<\/p>\n

I was a graduate of the Xerox Institute.\"copier\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I knew how read the error instructions on the display of the copier machine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I could follow those highly technical directions such as:<\/p>\n

Open drawer A and <\/strong><\/em>remove any jammed paper <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

or <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Open the front cover, release lever B and turn the handle 3 times until the paper comes out.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

With hidden skills like this, I was indispensable, I was one of a kind.<\/p>\n

The Broker thought so as well and at that, he jumped up from his chair, shook my hand and welcomed me aboard.<\/p>\n

And that rest is history. I have other responsibilities in my position, but nothing else as prestigious and important<\/strong> as being able to fix the copy machine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Especially to all of my 85 agents<\/strong>, each dear one of them who of course do not have the knowledge and skills to even begin to fathom how to unblock a piece of jammed paper<\/strong>. All their negotiating, prospecting, advertising, marketing, contract writing skills in the world, couldn’t possibly compare to my genius expertise when it comes to a copy machine.<\/p>\n

For without my talent, they are nothing!<\/strong> For I am gifted! Because I graduated from the Xerox Institute.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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