Embrace Your Constraints
Everyone has one in 2020, something that changed your plans or kept you from doing what you expected to do this year. So what is the...
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rick13714
- Apr 25, 2013
- 2 min
Too Big To CARE
What I see is the opposite of Too Big To Fail. It’s Too Big To Care. The two largest institutions I deal with brought this home to me...
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rick13714
- Jan 5, 2013
- 2 min
Your Bibliography?
Having added daily writing to my action plan this year, I sat down this chilly Saturday morning to write. What hit me (like walking...
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rick13714
- Mar 27, 2012
- 1 min
Feedback and Continuous Improvement
http://todaysleanmanufacturing.com/tlm-005-guest-interview-with-rick-miller-discussing-continuous-improvement-lean-and-kaizen/ Boy, was...
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rick13714
- Mar 21, 2012
- 2 min
Becoming Patient Zero
Yet having a keen interest in leadership and motivation, I wonder about spreading to without what is not first spread within....
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rick13714
- Mar 19, 2012
- 2 min
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 TV and telephone have been replaced by texting and apps.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...
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rick13714
- Mar 15, 2012
- 2 min
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...
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rick13714
- Mar 12, 2012
- 3 min
Connecting
Ever hear someone described as, “He/She’s got connections”? This statement usually implied the person has more connections than ability....
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rick13714
- Mar 4, 2012
- 2 min
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...
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rick13714
- Mar 1, 2012
- 2 min
Teaching the Teacher
The course offered through a community college failed to attract enough students to “make” its March schedule. Unlike businesses, schools...
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rick13714
- Feb 19, 2012
- 2 min
A Balanced Life and Steve Jobs
I just finished reading Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography. Having lived in California is the 70’s and 80’s I found his covering of...
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rick13714
- Feb 17, 2012
- 2 min
Why Blog Daily?
During the market plan discussion in our entrepreneurship class, Calvin asked me, “Why do you blog daily?” Good question and I sought of...
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rick13714
- Feb 16, 2012
- 2 min
Size Matters
I learned a valuable lesson today that reinforced Seth Godin’s premise that mass and size matters. Promoting a customer service event I...
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rick13714
- Feb 8, 2012
- 3 min
Seeing what you hear appear
Today was a great day for so many reasons. Our events are getting booked, my associate gave a great presentation to the Optimists, an...
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rick13714
- Feb 7, 2012
- 2 min
Marketing in the Bazaar World
Thinking about Godin’s “Weird” analogy and Friedman’s earlier book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, I had another weird thought. In comes the...
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rick13714
- Jan 25, 2012
- 1 min
Creating Your Future in a Weird World
Seth Godin believes Weird, as in individualism is cool, has replaced Mass, which is fitting in. Mass is based on selling average...
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rick13714
- Jan 24, 2012
- 2 min
Abundance
The counseling appointment this morning allowed me to put the practice of abundance to work today. The entrepreneur had located to our...
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