Practice Makes Perfect
Practice being nice until being mean is repulsive. Practice being patient until you are not bothered by waiting. Practice acts of kindness until offering help is no longer a chore. […]
Monthly Archives: June 2006
News Flash: The Apprentice is No More
I hope that title got your attention! It’s not true, at least not in the way you think. I hate starting something and not finishing, but I’m just not getting […]
Door-to-Door Sales… Unsolicited and in Your Face at Your WorkPlace!
You’re working diligently, when someone abruptly enters your office, introduces themselves, and asks you questions in order to give information that you rather not give. Ahhhh, it’s another unsolicited sales […]
Leading Your Team: Be Open and Honest
People want their leaders confident and fearless. They want super-men that can overcome any obstacle in their path, rise to any challenge and defeat it, and set impossible goals which […]
21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader
The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow Authors: John C. Maxwell Hardcover: 160 pages, $11.69 Published: June, 1999 I like most of […]
If You Could Be…
Today I turn 34. I probably would have taken the day off except I have to be in court tomorrow for a traffic ticket and I’ll be going on vacation […]
Lessons From the Apprentice (1.2): Sex, Lies and Altitude
The Task The teams are to create (at minimum) a TV commercial and magazine ad to market the Marquis Jet card. While Amy goes to meet with company execs, the […]
The AMA's Definition of Marketing… True or a Bunch of Wordy Bull?
marketing: Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization […]
Linking Matters
Linking Matters How to Create an Effective Linking Strategy to Promote Your Web Site Authors: Ken McGaffin and Archie Binnie Paperback: 33pages, Free Published: February, 2003 While several years old, […]
The Power of a Single Letter
In my post yesterday I had misspelled a single word throughout the entire post. “loose” was spelled “lose”. It’s amazing at how one single letter can completely change the meaning […]
Leading Your Team: Cut the Dreamers Loose
If you have a good team… I mean a real good team, they will dreamers not just workers. While there is nothing wrong with having a team of workers, we […]
Lessons From the Apprentice (1.1): Meet the Billionaire
Just for fun I felt like going back and re-watching past seasons of the apprentice. I’ve seen all the episodes but since the show is on such a long hiatus […]
Getting Caught Up and Falling Behind
For most things I’m very good at getting things done on schedule, but I find that when it comes to my online reading, such as blogs and forums, I’m forever […]
Backseat Driver's Manual: Got My Attention!
Just when I start to think that there are no more possible ways to uniquely market something to consumers, I become proven wrong. Yesterday I was thumbing through my new […]
Leading Your Team: Make them Feel Important
Why should you go out of your way to make your team feel important? Because they are important! Too many managers in too many companies don’t look at their team […]