The Hardest Sale
Over time, I have come to expect that the hardest sale to make is a sale to my own group of trusted friends, associates, and clients.
Driving by the Numbers
Are you driving your company by the numbers? Sales, profitability, productivity, overhead, cost of sales, cost of goods, and on and on and on. There are certainly no lack for areas of measurement in any business.
Can You Write and Talk at the Same Time?
Recently, multitasking has had a run of bad luck in the popular press. The Wikipedia entry on multitasking notes, “Multitasking can result in time wasted due to human context switching and apparently causing more errors due to insufficient attention.”
The World is a Highly Capricious Place
The World – Capricious? Yes, the world has a degree of capriciousness to it that can make life seem impulsive, fickle, unpredictable, even volatile.
About 50% of What I Do Doesn’t Work
A young woman, enrolled in one of the nation’s top medical schools, was told 50% of what she would be taught over the next four years would later be found to be inaccurate. The school just didn’t know which half of the training would be inaccurate.
Letting Go of “Precious”
Yes, you are precious – rare, valuable, and highly esteemed. Is precious holding you back? Is precious an excuse for not letting go, for not showing up?
Care? Suck it Up!
It’s all an excuse to say, “I don’t care.” I don’t care about you and I don’t care about your problems. I have enough of my own.
Building Trust
Trust is an elusive characteristic that builds over time and experience. It is easy to lose and difficult to develop.
Dispensable Assets: You’re Fired
If employees are an organization’s most important assets, then why do I feel like a commodity? Maybe you do too.
When Boredom is Good
Boring can be an indication that everything is running smoothly. There are no fires to put out; no dragons to slay.