TURN YOUR FRUSTRATION TO FRUITFULNESS

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A certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves. So Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” And she said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil”. Then he said, “Go, borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbours empty vessels; do not gather just a few. And when you have come in, you shall shut the door behind you and your sons; then pour it into all those vessels, and set aside the full ones”. So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons, who brought the vessels to her, and she poured it out. Now when it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel”. And he said to her, “There is not another vessel”. So the oil ceased. 2 Kings 4:1-7 (NKJV)

Investment experts estimate if Colonel Harland Sanders had taken shares instead of cash for his business, Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation in 1964, he would have been even richer. Yet Harland Sanders sold his company he had 600 franchisees. No matter what experts think that is still remarkable achievement for a seventy-four year old!

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Born in Indiana in 1890, Harland Sanders left school at ten and for the next 30 years pursued what has been described as “a fine American life” as a farm-land, street-car conductor, soldier in Cuba, railway fireman, lawyer, insurance salesman, ferry-man, tyre salesman and petrol-station operator. When the petrol station, in Corbin, Kentucky, did well, he opened a motel and restaurant, Sanders Café, where he perfected his fried-chicken recipe. The state governor so enjoyed eating there that he named Sanders a Kentucky Colonel in 1935.

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When a new interstate highway crowded the motel out of business in the early 1950s, Sanders started travelling the country frying seasoned chicken for restaurants and offering them his recipes for a royalty. The first to agree, a Utah restaurateur called Leon “Pete” Harmon, suggested the paper ‘bucket’ which soon became part of the brand.

None of the franchisees are told the full recipe of the seasoning used being a trade secret. New restaurant operators attended “KFC University”, a company-owned outlet in Louisville. There they are initiated into the special cooking method, but they are not told what is in the seasoning mix. Franchisees must buy the seasonings premixed from Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation.

In 1964, when Sanders had 600 franchisees, he sold his business for $2 million dollars to private investors (a three-man syndicate headed by Jack C. Massey, a Nashville financier) who resold it in 1971 for $285 million dollars to Heublein Corporation, a drinks company, which in turn was bought in 1982 by R.J. Reynolds. The tobacco company sold Kentucky Fried

Chicken to PepsiCo four years later. In 1997, PepsiCo sold Kentucky Fried Chicken (now KFC) to a company now called “Yum”! (known as Tricon until 2002) which presently has 34,000 (mostly franchised) restaurants, made up of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, around the world.

Did Harland Sanders see his franchisees exceeding 8,000 in the US alone and more than 1,300 in China by 2005?

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John Maxwell wrote about Pleasant T. Rowland and the Pleasant Company in his book The 17 Indispensable Qualities of a Team Player. How did a dissatisfied school teacher pioneer a company that grossed $300 million dollars by 2002?

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HERE IS THE STORY:

Pleasant T. Rowland had been frustrated by the un-creative books she was given, so she began developing her own materials. Late she worked in educational research and publishing. Eventually she began her own company (Pleasant Company) when she and her friend Valerie Tripp came up with a creative idea for girls “The American Girls Collection”.

The main idea: Pleasant Company editors create a proposal for a character (a girl) to be set in a particular time period and location. It includes information on the period of significance to American history and how girls today would relate to it. It examines the culture, including housing, clothing, food, and more. It also identifies possible experts, authors and illustrators who could work on the project.

Once every department has reviewed the potential project, the editors choose an author, and the project development begins researching products that could be created to enrich the learning process for children. In the end, each product would include a group of books set in a different time period in American history. There are also dolls for each book series, period clothes, accessories, and other things. There is even a magazine the girls will be able to get.

Obviously the strategy has worked. The Pleasant Company has been highly successful, both educationally and financially. So far, the company has sold 61 million books and 5 million dolls, and its magazine has 700,000 subscribers. And Pleasant Rowland has received numerous awards and honors, such as recognition by the Institute of American Entrepreneurs (on whose board she now serves).

Since Rowland is an entrepreneur, perhaps her greatest recognition came when her company was acquired by Mattel (one of the world’s biggest toy makers) in 1998 and she became Mattel’s vice chairman. Undoubtedly, Mattel’s decision makers were impressed by her business skill, sense of mission, and ability to turn her vision to reality.

Pleasant T. Rowland had been frustrated by the uncreative books she was given, so she began developing her own materials. Late she worked in educational research and publishing. Eventually she began her own company (Pleasant Company) when she and her friend Valerie Tripp came up with a creative idea for girls “The American Girls Collection”.

The main idea: Pleasant Company editors create a proposal for a character (a girl) to be set in a particular time period and location. It includes information on the period of significance to American history and how girls today would relate to it. It examines the culture, including housing, clothing, food, and more. It also identifies possible experts, authors and illustrators who could work on the project.

Once every department has reviewed the potential project, the editors choose an author, and the project development begins researching products that could be created to enrich the learning process for children. In the end, each product would include a group of books set in a different time period in American history. There are also dolls for each book series, period clothes, accessories, and other things. There is even a magazine the girls will be able to get.

Obviously the strategy has worked. The Pleasant Company has been highly successful, both educationally and financially. So far, the company has sold 61 million books and 5 million dolls, and its magazine has 700,000 subscribers. And Pleasant Rowland has received numerous awards and honors, such as recognition by the Institute of American Entrepreneurs (on whose board she now serves).

Since Rowland is an entrepreneur, perhaps her greatest recognition came when her company was acquired by Mattel (one of the world’s biggest toy makers) in 1998 and she became Mattel’s vice chairman. Undoubtedly, Mattel’s decision makers were impressed by her business skill, sense of mission, and ability to turn her vision to reality.

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