Jul
29
2010

Use your Best Thinking for your Life

Read this amazing article:
http://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life/ar/1
Thanks to my friend Tom who forwarded to me this great article about how you plan your life instead of just your career. This book illustrates how to use our principles for even the smallest decisions. There is so much pressure to tip toe across those lines and daily living [...]

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Jun
15
2010

How many Jams do you need?

Too many choices; too many reasons to put off the idea of buying.

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May
05
2010

Favorite Peter Drucker Quotes – What are yours?

Alas, I mostly fail doing things this way. Yet as Joan Baez sings in her song, I Believe in God, “Every day is a chance to get it right.” so, I do keep trying.

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Apr
12
2010

Undercover with Carrotts and the Problem with Superstars

 How many of you like the new show, Undercover Boss?  I kind of like it.  First because it shows business owners and executives who really do care and are human beings.  CEO bashing has become a bit of a blood sport.  The goofballs get all the press. 
My experience is that folks who own and run businesses [...]

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Feb
02
2010

Stealing as Moral?

The link below is the interview of author Lisa Dobson who is selling a new book unbelievably named, The Underground Morality. There is nothing moral about this book.

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Jan
22
2010

Customer Service @ Costco?

At the pump a fully parka inflated gentleman with the kindest smile and bearded face, monitoring the gas lanes, came up to me and said, “Let me pump that for you and let me clean the salt off your windows.”

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Jan
08
2010

Company Store Fashion Show

Well one of the things our team did was have a blast putting on a Company Store fashion show.

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Dec
01
2009

Holiday HQ @ St. Croix

Give your customers a price point that works for them with great value and they will buy.

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Nov
16
2009

“Wow” Customer Service Execution – Tria

You would never think finding amazing, knock you over customer service would be at a doctors office. But that is where I found it. Tria Orthopaedic Center in Bloomington Minnesota. It was a WOW experience from the minute I finally found the parking lot until an hour and twenty minutes later when I walked out of there all patched up and cured.

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Nov
10
2009

This is it- Creativity, execution, clouds vs earth

Glenn Karwoski, is billed as an “Idea Man” teaching the capturing of the creative process to companies. I think he is right when he says “one of the enemies of creativity and innovation is success. ..complacency There is nothing like fear and panic to make someone get creative real fast.

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