| Have You Prayed About That? |
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| Written by Patrick Morley |
| Sunday, February 11 2007 19:00 |
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Norm Miller, principal owner of Interstate Batteries, recalled that in the early 1980s, their competitors were trying to establish independent distributors mimicking the way Interstate had pioneered (e.g., service stations and auto repair garages). Those competitors decided to have a convention. Norm said, “We had never pulled our customers together, so we decided we better have a convention too—and we decided on Hawaii. We started preparing and it sank in, ‘We’ve never had a convention! What if we mess it up? We could get all our distributors to attend, but really blow it.’ So we thought, ‘What do we do?’” “We decided we needed to pray.” Interesting choice. When confronted with an unknown, the first disposition of Norm’s heart was to pray. The full article is available FREE to registered users. Please SIGN UP or LOGIN to view. |





