2011 FEB - Neff Rental, Waste Management, Accordent Technologies

America's Team Builders Since 1983

VENTURE UP Client News

February 2011

QUOTES

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

~ Pericles

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

~ Jim Rohn

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

~ Jean Vanier

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
~ Richard Moss

It is what a woman thinks of herself that really determines her fate.

~ Henry David Thoreau (revised).

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

~ Oscar Wilde

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

~ Bernice Johnson Reagon

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

~ David Russell

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

~ Marcel Pagnol

We are all on this earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

~ W.H. Auden

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CORPORATE

Social
Responsibility

Did you know

Venture Up can help reinforce your CSR program and increase

employee engagement?

Here are just a few ways:

Bike Building

4 kids in need

World Bank

Can Creations

for local food banks

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Paint Fest

for shelters & hospitals

Nestle

Word Power

VOCABULARY

from the GRE

blandishment

n. speech or action intended to coax someone into doing something.

caprice

n. a sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior; impulse

corporeal

adj. of or having to do with material, as opposed to spritual; tangible.

diffident

adj. lacking self confidence, modest.

disabuse

adj. to free a person from falsehood or error.

diatribe

n. a bitter abusive denunciation.

efficacy

n. effectiveness; capability to produce a desired effect.

Team Building

Meetings & Events

NEFF RENTAL

Las Vegas, NV

Neff Rental celebrates a successful takeover in Las Vegas. Wayzata Investment Partners of Minnesota recently acquired the firm, and plans to expand the company's services, creating hundreds of new jobs.

WASTE MANAGEMENT

Scottdale, AZ

Waste Management staff celebrate in Scottsdale at their annual meeting, with team building activities indoors and outside.

ACCORDENT TECHNOLOGIES

Tempe, AZ

Accordent Technologies made the Inc. 5000 List of the Fastest Growing Businesses, and also scored high in the Amazing Race in Old Town Tempe.

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ESSENTIAL TRIVIA

Jump start your meeting !

1. Who is the Barber of Seville?

Figaro

2. What does a scruple measure in the U.S.? Weight

3. What Nepalese City means "wooden temples"? Kathmandu

4. What currency must a foreigner use to pay the $20 airport tax to fly out of Zimbabwe? U.S. dollars (!)

5. What ball sport features legalized betting for its U.S. spectators? Jai alai

Venture Up provides uplifting experiences
to enrich your team

at work and in life.

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