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Reflections on a great day
I hope at the end of each day you take time to reflect on what was great about today, what you learned from it, and what you will pass...

rick13714
May 18, 20121 min read


SteelCrazy and Patriotic After All These Years
If you like what they came up with, email Paul Proctor and let him know. ebironart@aol.com. He’d appreciate it I know. #911 #Patriotism

rick13714
May 17, 20121 min read


Trust and speed
The speed of my progress or success has a direct correlation to the depth of my trustability. Trustability is an inside-out quality that...

rick13714
Apr 26, 20122 min read


Learning to not Compete
As a former racing sailor, the analogy made sense. My first race in San Francisco Bay, in a competitive Soling fleet, found us tacking to...

rick13714
Apr 17, 20122 min read


Flip thinking and groups
Human nature pushes most of us to let someone who wants to do more than their share do just that. That’s why 20% of the people produce...

rick13714
Apr 2, 20121 min read


April First and Employee Trust
The same is true in organizations as best I can tell. How many stories have you heard or participated in where lack of trust was the main...

rick13714
Apr 1, 20122 min read


The Year For Your Customer
What if you decided to make sure your customers forever remember how much you appreciated their business? I am not talking about an...

rick13714
Apr 1, 20121 min read


Feedback and Continuous Improvement
http://todaysleanmanufacturing.com/tlm-005-guest-interview-with-rick-miller-discussing-continuous-improvement-lean-and-kaizen/ Boy, was...

rick13714
Mar 27, 20121 min read


Spare Change? Absolutely Not
Everyone gives lip service to wanting to change. Yet most people display attitudes similar to real estate zoning law. NIMBY is the...

rick13714
Mar 26, 20122 min read


Becoming Patient Zero
Yet having a keen interest in leadership and motivation, I wonder about spreading to without what is not first spread within....

rick13714
Mar 21, 20122 min read


Connecting with Your Customer
The way people look for, and receive, information is dramatically changing. TV and telephone have been replaced by texting and apps. Look...

rick13714
Mar 19, 20122 min read


Find something good to say about everyone. Everyone
Benjamin Franklin was our first great diplomat. He was renowned for his ability to converse and relate with friends and adversaries...

rick13714
Mar 18, 20123 min read


Free Agency and Job Security
The Ready to Work(“RTW”) program was designed to insure Alabama workers were “ready to work” when they started at the new high-tech...

rick13714
Mar 15, 20122 min read


Connecting
Ever hear someone described as, “He/She’s got connections”? This statement usually implied the person has more connections than ability....

rick13714
Mar 12, 20123 min read


Remarkable Confluence on Leadership
Driving home last night John Maxwell in his latest Success Magazine CD interview explained how his real joy comes from bringing out the...

rick13714
Mar 10, 20122 min read
If a new product falls in the forest….
Launching a new business, product, or service is both easier today and harder today for the same reason. In our tribe driven, niche...

rick13714
Mar 8, 20123 min read


Metric Failures
KPI taught me a lesson I still apply today. The less you understand about a problem the more information you request. The more you know...

rick13714
Mar 4, 20122 min read


Moving the past forward- A Masterpiece Day
It’s Friday night and I am growing excited about the Disney Institute event we are producing Tuesday. I hope the facilitators have a line...

rick13714
Mar 2, 20123 min read
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