A Key Competitive Advantage
For profit or not-for-profit, many organizations do not properly utilize meetings as a tool for communication. Many times meetings are not effective because the three simple rules of meetings are forgotten.
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The Next Step
Recently I wrote about how an unexpected departure can dramatically affect your career and your life.
If this has happened to you or someone you know, like it did to me, know the sun will come up the next morning, the job is over, but you are not.
This post is about reinvention, resilience, and rediscovery. It will not be easy and there are no guarantees; but it is a guide to the road ahead.
A Merchant’s Day
Being a successful merchant means doing many small things better than everyone else. If success were the result of doing one or two things well, everyone would be successful. Success though comes from everyone pulling and working together.
Risk, Innovation, and Failure
How does your organization approach failure?
Silly question?
Okay, let’s ask another … How does your organization approach innovation?
It is rare for any new idea or concept to be fully formed and perfect the day it is suggested. Most fresh ideas and products go through much trial and error before they reach their final form. This leads us back to the initial question …
A place to start over …
It can happen for any number of reasons: the how and why doesn’t really matter.
One day you are a senior level executive, manager or associate with many successful years with the same company behind you, and then the next day you are gone.
STARTING A NEW JOB
A new job and new co-workers represent a clean slate and a fresh start. It is chance to build or re-establish reputations and a professional network.
For some, it can also be a period of anxiety and discomfort as they attempt to carve out a comfort zone from the new and unknown.
The following are some helpful hints that can help you or someone you know navigate the first few days with a new organization.
The Twenty
“The Twenty” is a guide for excellence.
Originally designed for sales excellence, to limit these 20 Competitive Advantages to only sales associates would be an injustice. These powerful, but very simple and easy to apply lessons can be used in virtually any career and by any organization.
A Baker’s Dozen
What knowledge or advice would you have liked to know at the start of your career that you know now?
If you could make a list of a dozen of the most important truths for your younger self, what would you include?
Once you have written this list, your challenge is to share it with as many people as possible. This is my list.
It starts with one …
Many people will say that small and medium-sized businesses and organizations are the economic engine for our country; in many ways, they are also the socio-economic conscience.
For a Good Leader, everything is about people.
Being a good leader doesn’t have anything to do with titles.
Being a good leader is about respect.
Respect is earned.