“For the times they are a-changin.”
Short-term quarterly profit results have driven the executive decisions of publicly traded companies forever. Some how I think that focus will change. Perhaps slowly from a government regulation perspective but not slowly from an investor perspective (and that counts even more).
Investor trust and opinion counts way more than government [...]
Archive for September, 2009
27 Sep
Wall Street
26 Sep
Value is Vision
One person’s junk is another person’s treasure.
The very astute business person Lynda Resnick, in her book Rubies in the Orchard, writes about buying the $25.00 string of fake pearls worn by Jackie Kennedy (Jackie wore them everywhere).
“At $211,000, the pearls turned out to be a phenomenal bargain. We sold more that 130,000 copies at $200 [...]
25 Sep
Caring and Compassion
Are we paying attention to people or just ignoring them?
Buzz McCoy says this in his book Living Into Leadership: “As scientific research was applied to the study of work, with time and motion studies and the famous Westinghouse studies, investigators found that their mere presence on the jobsite, no matter how they altered work conditions, [...]
18 Sep
People Business
Many don’t understand what business they are in.
While we have wonderful nutrition and wellness products we are truly in the people business. Sometimes companies understand that their employees and their people count.
C. Britt Beemer and Robert L. Shook, The Customer Rules, wrote in their book regarding a real estate sales agent being recruited to RE/MAX [...]
17 Sep
Team Calls
Conference Calls can be “Listen Only” or “Interactive” so what is your objective for the call?
A Network Marketing team, like any team, can die due to lack of communication. Some people think that having new people on a conference call is the most important thing and have closed calls (listen only) almost exclusively. Professionally done [...]
16 Sep
Servants Wanted
What type of person will always be in demand–servants or bosses?
Do you like people that tell you what to do, and/or how it is, or do you like people asking you: “What would you like me to do for you?”
Unfortunately, many people have their ego trained too well as a boss and feel others are [...]
15 Sep
Are You Having Fun Yet?
A major reason for leaving your job is that it becomes tedious and is no longer fun.
Most of us understand what it is like to get up on a set schedule and go to work every day. Sometimes we look out at rush hour traffic and wonder how people ever got to the cattle stage [...]
11 Sep
Double Your Trouble
We often quote people experienced in failure:
“I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated ten thousand materials and combinations that didn’t work.” Thomas Edison
“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” Tom Watson, Sr. (IBM)
Unfortunately, we never take these comments to heart. We hardly ever look at failure as a [...]
10 Sep
Unlocking the MLM Door
Stephen M. R. Covey in his book (chapter on Demonstrate Respect), The Speed of Trust:
“I particularly like the story of the business student who did well on her final exam until she came to the last question: ‘What is the name of the person who cleans your dorm?’ She was incredulous. How could she be [...]
8 Sep
MLM Company Bonus
Creative Bonuses for MLM Start-up companies.
I am sure there are many creative compensation plans in Network Marketing (MLM) companies that I am not familiar with but there is one bonus I’m surprised not to see paid in most plans. Of course, that’s a company incentive bonus that all Distributors would earn if the company is [...]
