Step into your own personal power.

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Product Description

Whatever your role within an organization, "The 100 Percent Factor" will give you fresh perspectives on ordinary concepts and ideas to help create a new attitude about the world of work, and the world outside of work. By supporting employees in bringing 100 percent of themselves to work, employers can expect at least 100 percent return on their investment. By examining and then producing their own 100 percent with each task or project, employees will step into their personal responsibility. This book guarantees no answers, but provides stories, analogies, and new perspectives - and new questions - that will inspire the reader to action in making a difference both inside and outside the workplace.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1507018 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-22
• Binding: Paperback
• 150 pages

Review
"Jodee Bock's message is an important one. She reminds us that we get to decide how good our lives will be. That we're here, not to shrink back and wait for a more convenient time, but to put ourselves and our egos on the line and step forward into the next great segment of our lives." --Gail Blanke, Author of "Between Trapezes: Flying Into A New Life With The Greatest Of Ease"

"The 100 Percent Factor gives us a simple, inspiring method for turning conventional wisdom into effective practice. It doesn't matter if you 'know' this stuff; the question is are you doing it? Jodee Bock will show you how." --Steve Farber, Author of "The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership" and "The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World"

"The hunger to experience Spirit in the workplace is gaining the force of a movement. The old story of leadership will no longer satisfy this hunger. Followers - employees - are coming to work with a new set of expectations. The 100 Percent Factor provides a place where today's untapped capacity as well as tomorrow's potential can become the basis for those new conversations." --Dr. Lance Secretan, Author of "Inspire! What Great Leaders Do" and "ONE: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership"

About the Author
Jodee Bock is owner of Bock's Office Transformational Consulting where she supports individuals and teams in succeeding at whatever they are committed to accomplishing. Through customized workshops, seminars and keynotes, she offers fresh perspectives on traditional concepts which inspire audiences to go beyond "wishful thinking" to practice "riskful thinking" in order to do something with what they know. She is co-author of the book "Don't Miss Your Boat" (Aloha Publishing, 2004).

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Mama said there’d be days like this. But how often do we let what Mama said – years and years ago – hold us back today?

Dr. Phil calls these defining moments – the episodes in our past that make us who we are today. They served us very well - at the time. Consider the age you were and the life stage you were in when you made those decisions that have now formed your current reality.

I learned to read at age 3. My mother was tutoring a 6-year-old boy, in our home, who had been involved in an accident and couldn’t go to school for a period of time. While learning to read was part of what he had to do as a first-grade student, from my pesty 3-year-old perspective, it was just fun.

So I learned to read and my entire world opened up. I read everything I could get my hands on. I’m certain I was even more of a challenge to my parents with this new skill than I had been as a precocious kid who couldn’t read.

By the time I got to first grade, all of what we were learning was old hat to me. In fact, I remember the very day the teacher pulled out the reading books thinking to myself "today they get to learn to read."

By this time my mother had returned to her fourth-grade teaching position, and one day I overheard my first-grade teacher talking to my mom about how she thought I should skip first grade and go directly to second grade. I remember my mom said no. I’m sure there was much more to that conversation, but that’s all I remember, and in my 6-year-old head, that meant I wasn’t good enough. From then on I can remember trying to do everything I could to be good enough. No, not just good enough, but better than everyone else.

This new-found competitive spirit served me very well – for a while. I excelled in school, and eventually in sports - in the activities that rewarded external behaviors. But I didn’t have many friends because I was the kid other mothers wanted their kids to be like. In fact, I had one friend whose mother would drop her off at my house to play and then she would leave my house and go hang out with her other friends, sneaking back to my house in time for her mom to pick her up.

I thought everyone was driven to making everything they did better, so I never understood why my classmates weren’t spending as much time as I was on school projects and homework and were spending their time playing.

Things got a bit out of hand when I threw a book at one of my friends in seventh grade and hit him in the head because he got a better grade on a paper than I did. But even that realization didn’t change my nature. It carried over to my college experience and even into my career. I was always looking to make things better and I was driven to enter contests so I could win awards and prove to everyone that I was good at what I did. I read books and magazine and articles so I could quote other people’s ideas. This would allow me to seem well-read and intelligent, but if you didn’t like what I had to say, I could hide behind someone else’s thoughts. If you rejected me, it was only because you didn’t really know me – you knew who you thought I was because it was who I let you know.

Only when I realized that this ultra-competitive attitude was created by 6-year-old me was I able to see from a new perspective how perhaps the adult me might make new choices about living free from those characteristics that had served me well at very different times in my life.

The past really does have a lot to do with who we are today, but it doesn’t have to hold us to something we chose in very different times or circumstances. If we don’t begin to recognize our own opportunities to alter the things that frustrate us the most in our lives, we’ll be destined to see our future through the eyes of our past.

What is holding you back? What served you well at the time, but is no longer working for you?

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Customer Reviews

GREAT book - Must Read
This is a wonderful book and it is written extremely well. If you ever want to understand how to get more out of what you already doing or take on a new challenge with greater ease, this book will help. Besides that the author is from Fargo, ND., how great is that!

Get inspired to live FULL OUT in your own life.
Jodee Bock is a master at moving people forward and this book clearly shows you why. By synthesizing the simple truths at the core of who you are and how you show up in the world, she demonstrates step by step how to transform the life you're living now into one of YOUR choosing.

I've known Jodee for several years and have found her to be a passionate, dynamic treasure trove of motivation and personal strength. I would tell anyone to pick up a copy of The 100% Factor and connect with this woman. She's going places, and she'll gladly take you with her.

Genuine and insightful
The author hits the mark with her genuine approach to living at your full capacity. Jodee is able to relate her own experiences and the writing is like you are talking to a friend. She uses analogies and her personal experiences to explain some concepts that have been around for a long time but that we have somehow forgotten how to apply.

Jodee gathers insightful commentary from a wide variety of sources and weaves them into her themes. I especially liked the story about the "questioning machine." This really made me stop and ask "What do I want?" and "Who am I." Two questions I have asked myself many times but until now never really allowed myself to fully explore and answer.

I read this book twice and the first time it did not hit me the same way, but I wanted to look again and when I did I really saw it in a different way- and good thing I did! They say that when the student is ready the teacher will appear and I think I was ready for this the second time around!