W. Clement Stone sold papers as a kid. He became a billionaire by selling insurance door-to-door. He documented what he learned in his great book, The Success System That Never Fails. Picture this – you respond to a knock at your door. You open it to see a young man pointing to a list of […]
August 22, 2009
You have undoubtedly heard of the One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson, or The Two Minute Networker by Rhonda L Sher. While the emphasis on time highlights the promise of rapid understanding and confident capability, it is the expertise of the author that ultimately delivers the greatest and most enduring value to […]
August 21, 2009
During my interview with Bob Copacino on today’s PI Window on Business Show, he indicated that with traditional BI methodologies and systems approximately 90% of an organization’s time and resources are spent on the up front gathering, organizing and selecting of data while only 10% of the time is spent on applying the intelligence in […]
August 21, 2009
“The Power of the Wolf is the Pack, and the Power of the Pack is the Wolf.” I thank Rudyard Kipling for this expression; I freely paraphrase this sentiment from “The Jungle Book.” Employee motivation is on one level a very complex process. The most effective organization is one which provides opportunity for each individual […]
August 20, 2009
Today’s show dealt with a term that while descriptive may not be readily understood by many – which by the way proves a point of which I will explain a little later in this post. Visual Requirement Definition (VRD) can at first glance mean anything from being the test results from an eye exam to […]
August 17, 2009
I can recall reading about Christopher Reeve’s unfortunate accident shortly after it happened, and no longer thinking of him as an actor or a celebrity but instead as someone’s son, husband and father. It made me think of when my own father had passed away, and friends and relatives came from far and wide to […]
August 17, 2009
Albert Camus said that we should “live to the point of tears.” Napoleon Hill said “we all come into life with the equivalent of two envelopes: one envelope is marked “Riches” and contains all the material possessions and wealth we could ever desire. The second envelope is marked “Penalties” which contains the penalties we will […]
August 25, 2009
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