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Lesson #4: Set High Standards So You Can Take Pride In Your Product
“If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.” That was one expression that Sanders was fond of telling his staff at Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets across the country.

Lesson #3: The Boss Can Come Back
If there is one thing Steinbrenner is famous for besides his ability to manage a great baseball team, it is his ability to get himself into trouble. From being banned from baseball for life to feuding with and changing managers 20 times, Steinbrenner is no stranger to controversy. But what is even more remarkable, is his ability to bounce back and reclaim the team he worked so hard to promote.

Kodiak vs Battery: Adventures in VC Culture
Lest anyone think all venture firms are the same, here are some interesting comments from a Kodiak-based venture guy on how the culture there differs from the one at Battery:
Set Your Goals and Hop Back on That Bandwagon
Falling off the bandwagon is difficult on everyone. This is very true when it comes to your business as well. Knowing how to set goals and why you need to set them is an important part to becoming secure on that ever-going journey towards a well established business.
Work-life Balance "Putting on the Brakes"
"Putting on the Brakes", first published in Atlantic Business Magazine, advocates that enjoyment-based decisions are the key to work-life balance and provide coaching questions from business coach Karen Kelloway to help get you there.
Pitch the Story, Not Your Book
Pitch your book and you have a certain number of stories and media hooks. Pitch yourself, your life experiences, your anecdotal stories and your book and you’ve suddenly broadened the bulls eye…
The Sellers Research Group’s take on Apple’s financial
Apple announces its latest financial results today at 2 pm (Pacific). Naturally, we’ll be covering the announcements in-depth. But first I wanted to give you the predictions of what Apple will announce, as determined by the Sellers Research Group.
5 Steps to Organizing Your Business
Women entrepreneurs and solo-preneurs have a tough time focusing on business opportunities when their time and energy is taken up by too much to do! Here are five ways to get more time and energy so you can focus on business profitability.
Never Say It Cant Be Done
In business one must never say or assume that something can't be done. With a little help from ingenuity and creativity any problem can be easily solved.
How to Green a Restaurant, pt. 1: Ike's Quarter Cafe
Are you considering being a green restaurant? Consider the example of Ike’s Quarter Cafe, a New Orleans style restaurant in the gold rush era town of Nevada City, California. When I mentioned to my hair stylist yesterday that I would be writing about it, she said, “Oh really? I had no idea they were a green restaurant. I just thought they had good food.” Exactly.
Being Mindful of Who I Am
There are many things that I forget in the course of a day. The most frequent forgotten fact is my own identity. It's too easy to stockpile only my apparent shortcomings in the catacombs of my memory. Yet it is precisely the awareness of who I am that allows me to move forward in my personal and my professional life.
New Rules
Last week I was working with one of my small business clients, a bright and dynamic woman who’s passionate about positioning her artisan business for growth. We were talking about her financial picture and forecasting robust sales over the next three years.

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Flexing Your Fiscal Muscle
Walt Disney went bankrupt several times, yet he always bounced back-and created Disneyland in the process. Steve L. was the proud and profitable owner of a gold mine in another country. He was sitting on top of the world when the government nationalized his business, taking over his mine and providing no compensation. He lost it all overnight, and yet he picked up the pieces and started all over again. David Butler was raised on an Indian reservation. David's family lived on dirt floors well into his teens in spite of his father being a hard worker. They managed to get by but never seemed to get ahead.
Live at 5 – Handling The TV Interview
Business or personal, everyone seems to love a great scandal, solid news (as long as it's not their own). As flat as organizations are today any executive, manager can be reached for an interview. The most stressful is when you're sitting/standing with a TV camera facing you and the news person wants information, answers. Few professional newspeople (print, radio, TV, web, blog) are out to dig up dirt just to get the information...honest information. We're fortunate. We've had several years of being the interviewer (early in our career) and four confrontational interview courses. Done right the entire news interview experience can be good for the organization and you. The problem is you always have your best responses right after the interview. There's no retake in an interview...any interview.

Hydroponic Growing - No Soil? No Problem!
What makes hydroponic systems different from traditional in-ground gardening is a soil-less growing medium. No dirt! All plants require support, to be held up. This basic requirement is dealt with by soil-less growing mediums which are inert, mostly non-organic materials.

Hydroponic Gardening: What's Different and Mediums to Use
What makes hydroponic gardening different from traditional in-ground gardening is a soilless growing medium. No dirt! All plants require support, to be held up. This basic requirement is dealt with by soilless growing mediums which are inert, mostly non-organic materials. Non-organic refers to the medium not being derived from living organisms, unlike soil, which is. There are a perplexing jumble of growing mediums available for hydroponic gardening. Generally speaking, these mediums are porous, light and coarse, allowing oxygen and nutrients to be easy accessible to the plants roots.

Powerful Coaching Distinction: Working In Vs. Working On Your Life
Having been a professional coach for over 16 years, and having been in over a dozen coaching relationships as a client during that time, I’ve had the opportunity to examine what makes coaching so powerful and effective. It’s my personal view that one of the most beneficial tools that can enhance a client’s life is coaching distinctions. You can think of a coaching distinction like a lens through which you look at life, and in the process life shows up differently. For example, when my mechanic, Dale, looks under the hood of my car he sees a whole different world than I do. I see mostly dirt and oil and maybe the oil dip stick and radiator cap. But because Dale has many more ‘engine distinctions’ he’s the one I’m going to call on if my car won’t start in the morning. In short, the more distinctions we have AND USE, the more powerful...
Nothing and Everything
As a bit of time has passed, hopefully we are able to put the death and destruction from the Oklahoma tornadoes in some type of perspective. Although a tragedy of that nature can never be fully understood, there are lessons to be learned. My most lasting memory is of a young father being interviewed on the radio. As he stood with his wife and two children on the spot of barren dirt that hours before had been his home and everything he owned, he spoke the words I will keep with me always.

Advantages of 5 'S' Lean Manufacturing
The 5 S seem so obviously important, many people make the mistake of concentrating on the individual terms as though these were some kind of good luck charm. But it must be remembered that the 5S are actually a means to achieving specific ends. And the 5S have to be implemented with these objectives in mind. After implementing 5 "S" everything has been changed in Japan for example people have abandoned the old metallic grays that do not show the dirt & adopted new spotless while. White is all over the Japanese factories today.
Reflections of a Lone Sales Wolf
How time flies. I remember back in the mid 1970's when professional selling was easy and a whole lot of fun. We were Lone Wolfs back then. We controlled everything, we were professionals, we owned a patch of dirt. All we had to do to maintain ownership was to produce sales. We had our tools, a company car, trunk files, brochures, samples and a calendar/card file. As time passed, some of us even got car phones. Sure, we did call reports and had sales meetings, but make no mistake, we were pros. We owned that patch of dirt and most of the customers who were on it. If we chose to leave for greener pastures, most of our customers went with us. We had respect. Everything focused on relationships. I mentioned how I even remember my first sales training seminar, "Needs Satisfaction Selling." I was a rookie and having the time of my life.

Sales Management --Unmask the Confusion of Territory Account Assignment
When I carried a bag, sales territories were defined geographically. Of course, that was in the old days. My daughter calls it the days of Black & White Television. In reality, color television came out when I was still only seven years old. But in the days when I was a field sales rep, the 70’s & 80’s, a sales person got a chunk of geography and you were told this is your patch of dirt. You go out and you farm the territory and you build the business. However, for the most part, if you are going to grow your territory it has to grow by taking market share from the competition. Territories today need to go from being geographically defined to being key account assignment defined. So, in other words, when you use the term, ‘territory’ today, you’re not referring to a patch of dirt.

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