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8 STEPS TO GET LEANER IN A TOUGH ECONOMY!
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| Most savings/expense is created in the design of the product/process. How many times have you told an engineer we are not designing a space shuttle? How many times do you come under budget? |
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Lesson #1: Give Back To Others
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| “One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy. And only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.” |
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Lesson #2: The Proof is in the Product that Works
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| In 1910, Harley-Davidson motorcycles captured at least seven different first place finishes in races and endurance contests across America. The four boyhood friends who founded the company began racing their motorbikes because they loved it. But soon after they began sweeping races across the country, Harley and the Davidson brothers realized that they were now racing for something even more valuable than a trophy or prize money: they were racing for sales. |
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Lesson #4: A Healthy Dose of Paranoia Will Put You Ahead of the Curve
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| Intel might have become the largest semiconductor in the world, but it wasn’t without missing a few opportunities along the way. Looking back, Moore and Noyce learned the importance of harnessing the power of paranoia. To some, paranoia is a psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution. However, in the business context, paranoia amounts to being highly concerned and aware of potential threats to your company. Moore and Noyce came to understand that it was also one of the key traits for entrepreneurial success. |
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Lesson #3: “Develop a tight team relationship and a fighting spirit that wins”
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| As a young boy growing up in Wales, Matthews was a born engineer. He loved to fix anything that was broken, and break something even if it was not just for the fun of putting it back together again. If anyone in town had an electric motor that needed repairing, or even a musical box that needed a second life, they knew where to turn. |
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Lesson #1: “Entrepreneurs have to be willing to stay the course”
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| “It was hard not to enjoy the success we were having, doing a deal a day,” says Wilson of the early days with FirstEnergy. “It was enthralling to be at the office. I got as caught up in my career as any investment banker could be.” |
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Lesson #2: “I watch and learn. And I’m still watching and learning.”
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| Armed with both a Bachelor of Engineering and an MBA, Wilson has taken his fair share of educational courses, but the one he found the most valuable was one called “Consumer and Buyer Behaviour”. “It helped me understand things like product differentiation,” says Wilson, “how to make marketing memorable; advertising; the impact of brand logo and positioning, and post-purchase dissonance.” |
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Lesson #3: “Think outside the job market”
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| As a student at the University of Saskatchewan, Wilson took a life-changing outdoor survival skills training course in western Canada. It was as far removed from the insides of his business school classrooms as he could get, but today Wilson considers it nonetheless just as important for his business success. |
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Saying Thank You
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| US President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things. |
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100 Ways to Succeed #52
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| Work Like a Dog at Your Writing! |
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If you could change your life
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| ...would you?
Getting into Stanford Business School changed my life. In college, I trained to be a mediocre engineer (I didn't set out to be mediocre at it, but I sure was). I was on track to become Dilbert. |
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Some lessons for your business to live by!
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| Here are 12 lessons to live by in your business
1. ALWAYS DO MORE THAN IS EXPECTED OF YOU
I learned this at an early age from my Dad. He had a very successful career as a business executive and engineer, and this the core principle that created his success.
You can apply this to your business in many ways... over-delivering to your customers, giving unexpected bonuses to your employees or outsourced workers, and more.
Most people do just the bare minimum. Do more than is expected of you and it will do amazing things for your business. |
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Companies are Investing in a New Kind of Customer Service.
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| Moving from customer service to customer relationships is the way to grow.
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A Car Sales Story with a difference
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| Is there such as thing as a ‘good’ car sales story?
My husband and I recently bought two new cars over the Christmas break. We initially went in to buy one car. It wasn’t a Christmas splurge if that’s what you’re thinking – nor was anything it like the recent press on luxury cars and their owners. We wanted to go smaller and greener for all sorts of reasons I am sure you can image and one of our cars was at the end of its lease. Having done our research, the ‘make’ of our last four cars wasn’t doing enough, in our opinion, to be ‘greener’ so we decided to look elsewhere and try something different instead. |
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Got the right people in place
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| Getting the right skill sets and behaviors in the right spot is not always easy, yet it will make or break that new hire! |
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Searching Online for a New Job
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| Having made the choice about what kind of job you want and what kinds of employers to approach the journey is really just beginning. Searching online effectively for work requires discipline and a plan. |
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Preparing Your Product Expert for Tradeshows
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| The more complex your product is, the more likely you are to need a technical expert in your booth to explain the more arcane details. Even the best-trained marketing staff can’t always handle specialized questions. That’s why it’s essential that your booth staff include one or two people whose primary expertise lies not in marketing the finished product, but in creating and implementing the product design.
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Im a Momtrepreneur And You
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| What exactly is a WAHM (work at home mom) and why do we do what we do? More importantly - how do we do what wo do? Who is our support sustem? How do we find such support? Anyone that works rom home has these issues, and this aricle includes tips to overcome them. |
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RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN UNSETTLED TIME
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| Management is increasingly concerned about their ability to have a lean, mean focused core team that is supported by long-term external partners that are open to flexible and ever changing needs. |
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Your Roadmap To Go From Employee To President In 30 MOnths
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| These 6 articles are the result of over thirty years of analyzing, interviewing and training thousands of managers and subordinates in every industry, from manufacturing to wholesale, retail construction, agriculture, service industries and health care.
These articles are about how you can become a supervisor and move on to become a President of a company.
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How To Go From Mid Level Manager To Top Level Manager In 12 Months
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| These articles come in a six part series:
1) The essence of managing
2) Re-engineer yourself to be a manager
3) How to go from employee to supervisor in 6 months
4) How to go from supervisor to entry level manager in 6 months
5) How to go from entry level manager to mid level manage in 6 months
6) How to go from mid level manager to top-level manager in 12 months
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How To Go From Entry Level Manager To Mid Level Manager In 6 Months
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| These articles come in a six part series:
1) The essence of managing
2) Re-engineer yourself to be a manager
3) How to go from employee to supervisor in 6 months
4) How to go from supervisor to entry level manager in 6 months
5) How to go from entry level manager to mid level manage in 6 months
6) How to go from mid level manager to top-level manager in 12 months
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How To Go From Supervisor To Entry Level Manager In 6 Months
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| These articles come in a six part series:
1) The essence of managing
2) Re-engineer yourself to be a manager
3) How to go from employee to supervisor in 6 months
4) How to go from supervisor to entry level manager in 6 months
5) How to go from entry level manager to mid level manage in 6 months
6) How to go from mid level manager to top-level manager in 12 months
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How To Go From Employee To Supervisor In 6 Months
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| These articles come in a six part series:
1) The essence of managing
2) Re-engineer yourself to be a manager
3) How to go from employee to supervisor in 6 months
4) How to go from supervisor to entry level manager in 6 months
5) How to go from entry level manager to mid level manage in 6 months
6) How to go from mid level manager to top-level manager in 12 months
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The Essence Of Managing
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| These articles come in a six part series:
1) The essence of managing
2) Re-engineer yourself to be a manager
3) How to go from employee to supervisor in 6 months
4) How to go from supervisor to entry level manager in 6 months
5) How to go from entry level manager to mid level manage in 6 months
6) How to go from mid level manager to top-level manager in 12 months
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Re Engineer Yourself To Be A Manager
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| These articles come in a six part series:
1) The essence of managing
2) Re-engineer yourself to be a manager
3) How to go from employee to supervisor in 6 months
4) How to go from supervisor to entry level manager in 6 months
5) How to go from entry level manager to mid level manage in 6 months
6) How to go from mid level manager to top-level manager in 12 months
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Beware Of Spam Withdrawals
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| I am so sick of all the spam that is sent to my business email address. I spend an hour every morning just trying to sort out the good email from the bad. I know I could just delete it all, but I'm afraid I'll accidentally delete email that might be important to my business. Short of unplugging my computer, what's the best solution for dealing with spam? |
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Emotional Intelligence Training Case Study Medrad
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| Emotional Intelligence Training: Case Study. |
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It's Time to Re-Evaluate
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| Allow me to begin with a discussion of how and why to evaluate things, and then move on to a discussion about either changing occupations or re-inventing yourself and your business. Just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean you like it! |
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Even Engineers Sell
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| If you offer a professional service, you need to sell that service in order to grow. Change how you view selling and you’ll see immediate growth. |
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Be the Red Crayon
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| If you’re just another white crayon in a box of white crayons, why will they buy from you? Eliminate the competition by simply having no competition. |
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Value Added Selling
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| Value added selling is a proactive philosophy of seeking ways to enhance, augment, or enlarge on a solution for the Client. In value added selling you are always looking for ways to exceed the Client’s expectations. |
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How to Achieve Success, Self-Satisfaction, and Contentment
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| If you are looking for ways on how to achieve that success, self-satisfaction, and contentment, you just landed on the right spot. Read on and start your way to achieve success. |
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Profile of Jeanette Forbes, leading woman in a man's world
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| What would you do if after two years of trading your company found it had a £179,000 bad debt? For most people it would spell disaster and they would probably close the company, but not Jeanette Forbes. She overcame this challenge and has since continued to build a success business as a total ICT provider to the Oil and Gas industry - traditionally a male dominated environment. Read more about how she started up and grew the company. |
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This President Is On Track To Double Sales
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| How often do business owners express frustration about an area of their business that appears to be blocking accomplishment of a key goal? Mr. Mario Lapointe, president of SMT-ASSY, a Montreal firm that services the electronic industry felt just that way, although he was very positive about the long-term prospects for his business even considering the increased competition from Asia. Mr. Lapointe decided to work with me to take his business to the next level, which in his words was to double sales within 12 to 24 months. |
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S.O.S: The Single Most Powerful Shortcut to Make Your List Love You (And Buy From You)
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| We opened an email swipe file account recently and I've been going in daily to observe the various emails.
It's interesting and eye-opening, almost like a "survival of the fittest" experiment with the best emails rising to the top and the ones not cutting the mark sinking to the bottom (simply because I subscribed to 140 marketing mailing lists).
I've tried to reverse-engineer how and why these emails are so amazingly effective at capturing my attention, and even in some cases, my heart. I call this single most powerful concept 'SOS': Setting Off Sparks. |
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Making Change Stick
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| How to drive sustainable change. |
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Influence of EI on Job Function
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| The Technical Manual for the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal™ reveals interesting findings from a study of more than 13,000 individuals worldwide. Employees from various job functions, in different organizations and countries, were asked to evaluate their emotional intelligence by answering 28 questions. Job functions included sales, marketing, finance, operations, customer service, human resources, information technology (IT), engineering, business development, manufacturing, and R&D. |
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Other engineer Related Articles
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Going, Going, Gone: eBay Takes Off
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| In 1991, Omidyar joined forces with three friends to launch his first startup, Ink Development Corp. A pen-based computing company, Ink was later renamed eShop Inc. and Omidyar continued to work as a software engineer for the business for the next three years. In 1994, Omidyar was hired as a developer services engineer for General Magic, a mobile communication platform company. Two years later, eShop was bought out by Microsoft, but that would not be the end of Omidyar’s fascination with online shopping. |
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The Top 5 Reasons to Be a Jack of All Trades
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| Are the days of Da Vinci dead? Is it possible to, at once, be a world-class painter, engineer, scientist, and more?
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What is the best type of Graduate Degree for a Supply Chain Professional?
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| Member Question:
What is more useful in terms of applicability for a young supply chain professional...an MBA or a Masters in Supply Chain Management?
Ben, Logistics Engineer |
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If you could change your life
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| ...would you?
Getting into Stanford Business School changed my life. In college, I trained to be a mediocre engineer (I didn't set out to be mediocre at it, but I sure was). I was on track to become Dilbert. |
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Actions and Attitudes and Fiscal Fitness
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| Henry Ford once asked one of his young automotive engineers, "What is your life ambition?" The young man said, "I want to become very rich." A couple of days later, Ford approached the engineer and instructed him to put on a pair of glasses, which instead of having glass lenses had silver dollars in the frame. Then he asked the engineer, "What do you see?" "Nothing," the guy replied.
Having made his point, the auto giant said, "Then maybe you should rethink that ambition of yours." The man had money right in front of his eyes, but he couldn't see it. |
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Establishing and Maintaining Good Customer Relations
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| All structures are built upon a foundation. Truly successful engineers build their practices upon a foundation of strong customer relationships. As with every other purchase decision, individuals prefer to do business with people they like, with people who seem genuinely interested in them and with people who really care about their concerns. The business of starting and nurturing a relationship starts with the initial interview and continues throughout the firm's representation. It is critical to the long term success of the engineer/customer relationship that the engineer ongoingly stay in communication with the customer and keep them informed about the progress of their matter. |
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Fear of Selling
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| How Bill Frysinger the engineer conquered his "fear of selling." |
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8 STEPS TO GET LEANER IN A TOUGH ECONOMY!
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| Most savings/expense is created in the design of the product/process. How many times have you told an engineer we are not designing a space shuttle? How many times do you come under budget? |
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How to Determine if Your Sales Process is Effective
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| Attempting to reverse engineer your last sales cycle is a good way to uncover some of your sales weaknesses. |
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From Gas Engineer to Successful Business Owner...My Rocky Journey
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| Everyone thought I was mad. Even my Grandmother looked up at me from her deathbed and said ”Don’t do it!” the day that I announced that I was going to leave my well paid job as a gas service engineer to start my own business.
Did I enjoy overnight success? NO...Read on to find out more |
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