Holiday metrics thoughts

How far we’ve come in the years since 2001, shortly before 9/11, when we started The Gabriel Institute. It’s all in the metrics, though maybe you’ve never thought of this one: Holiday cards.

The first year, the cards were designed, printed, folded, signed, stamped and mailed – only a handful, really. The next few years there was a steady increase in the length of the list, but we still designed, printed, folded, signed, stamped and mailed. Then last year the printer refused to deal with the slightly heavier card stock (it has to flip them to print both sides) and there was no time so we just did an email version.

This year, the list is so huge, I can’t imagine any other way than either starting the process in January or using email. So we are emailing. But in case you aren’t on our list, here’s our greeting and our wish for you at this time:

If you didn’t receive your own, send me your email (to jpresser@thegabrielinstitute.com) and I’ll add you to the holiday card list for next year and also send you the articles that get published this year on leadership, metrics, etc.  You’ll be contributing to the promotion of the most important metric – how much good will we can create through cyberrelationships!