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Lesson #2: Get Back To Basics
“It all comes back to the basics,” said Thomas. “Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.”
Lesson #2: The Best Leadership is by Example
“If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example,” says Kamprad. “I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.”
Lesson #1: Good Taste Means Good Business
“If a man goes into business with only the idea of making a lot of money, chances are he won't,” Hall wrote in his autobiography, When You Care Enough. “But if he puts service and quality first, the money will take care of itself. Producing a first-class product that is a real need is a much stronger motivation for success than getting rich."
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Lack of Seriousness - The Last Interview with Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut is one of my few idols, an elegantly simple poet-philosopher of the first class. I grew up near where he lived in Sag Harbor, and I’ve enjoyed his writing since I was in junior high, where I silently hoped to one day have the courage to visit him.

Check Your Ego at the Door
Managers by the nature of their duties have authority over employees that report to them. How the manager exercises this authority defines them as a manager or leader of people. Leaders control their ego, in most cases, managers do not and it takes a confident person, secure in their abilities to control their ego. Ego, for our purpose of discussion is defined as and elevated inaccurate self-image of importance and using that idea to coerce an employee to complete their command.

Black Belt Business-showing up for work.
Becoming an entrepreneur requires persistence and drive. Take a lesson from a martial art (and the marines, too).
Back to Basics
Wouldn’t it be great if you could simply take a test proving what you know and that customers would then flock to you based on your test results?
Who's Your VP of Reputation?
Reputation is the new profit center for the 21st century. Think about it. In an age of corporate scandals, suspicious customers, and budgets with very little breathing room, there is simply no substitute for being a reputable company. But no matter how many times you say you're an honest, trustworthy, customer-centered company, the proof is in the proverbial pudding.

The Challenge of Change for Law Firms
An overview of the strategic challenges facing professional services firms, especially law firms
What Every Manager Can Learn From Barack Obama
First of all, let me start out by saying that this article is NOT in any way an endorsement for Barack Obama. It is merely my observation and opinion, nothing more. In my opinion, one of the most important qualities of a good manager is the ability to organize.
Book Business Class To London And Rejoice The 2011 St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations
London is all set to celebrate the 2011 St. Patrick’s Day that will commence from 13th March until 20th March. Travelers from across the world will travel through business air line flights to London and enjoy the most awaited festival of the Irish community.

Travel Through Business Flights To Mumbai:The Domestic And International Hub
The commercial and financial hub of India, Mumbai has several buildings that organize international fairs, meetings and conferences. Book your ticket air line flights to Mumbai and exhibit at one of the commercial venues of Mumbai.
Business Succession Planning - Three Fundamental Reasons You Need It Now
Succession planning is a simple enough process for managers and business owners to have the people they need, when they need them, all the time. And this brings them significant benefits. If that's what you want right now, here's three great benefits...
Market Leadership
Learn how to become an effective leader in today's competitive market. And start by learning the 4 steps to achieving a customer centric oriented culture.

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Creating Your Vision
As a youngster I often pretended I was the teacher and my friends were students in my class. When my friends didn't want to play I just used my dolls and stuffed animals. In later years I would daydream in class about how I could make the topic easier to understand or the class more fun than the teacher up front. I didn’t know it then but I was creating a vision.
How to Evaluate a Franchisor’s Training Program
Not long ago I took a trip to Tuscany and spent a week in a cooking class. Before the trip I spent time researching my options. I wanted to know who would be teaching the class, what courses and dishes would be covered, how hand-on the class was, if wine-pairings with the dishes would be addressed and if the class included trips to the local farmer’s markets to select fresh produce. Finding just the right cooking school was important to me because I would be spending a significant amount of money traveling to Italy and I wanted my experience to be well worth my time and effort. For a woman interested in buying a franchise, evaluating the training a franchise business offers should involve even greater research – after all, this is about your future – not a vacation.

The Power of Action
I was recently invited to be a guest lecturer for an entrepreneur class at the University of Cincinnati. In the question and answer portion of the program, the professor ask me to sum up what I felt was the most important message I could stress to the class. My reply was one word – ACTION.

Is Your Sales Team a Winner or on the Way Out?
Think your sales team is in good shape because your customers rank them either good or very good? Think again. Nearly 80 percent of all supplier deserters rate their previous supplier as "good" to "very good," so the outlook for anything less than world-class excellence is not only disappointing but potentially career threatening. A 15-year study on world-class sales by The HR Chally Group determined that only 21 of 7,300 sales forces evaluated by 80,000 customer decision-makers were categorized as “world-class” by their customers. Benchmarking research within these same 17 "world-class" sales organizations, found that they all shared at least six of the following eight best practices: see article

Class – The Elusive Quality in Today’s Society
The four basic elements of class are how you look, how you behave, what you say and how you say it! What you do is the substance of class and the way you do it is the style of class.

How To Stay On Top Of Your Game
Do you ever stop practicing? My wife and I were talking earlier tonight about this parenting class we took a little over 3 months ago. We both really enjoyed the class and got a lot out of it. The course was called Love and Logic and our instructor was a former grade school teacher and counselor named Ron Chidsey. He reminded us how important it was for us to come to the class because, not only did we get the chance to discuss our experiences over the past week, but it was important for us to do something every week to get better. It's hard to form new habits. This article provides a few tips for ways to stay on top of your game and form new habits.
The 10 Profound Breakthroughs That Created My 6-Figure Business
Recently I offered a free tele-class called The 10 Profound Breakthroughs That Created My 6-Figure Business. Although I can’t include all of the content of this groundbreaking class here I wanted to share a brief summary of the 10 Breakthroughs with you. Here we go.
Commodity Value Proposition - An Oxymoron?
How do you find your value proposition when everything you do and everything you sell seems to border on being a commodity because everybody is trying to do the same thing to create competitive advantage? “Oh, but we’re different. We sell our World Class Service.” Right ………………………. How many companies do you know that don’t say they have world class service. Many say that servicing the customer is their core competency. If they truly do have world class service, service is not their core competency it’s what they are doing to create and maintain that level of service that is their true core competency.
A Message To Graduating MBA’s
I gave a talk yesterday to a class of soon-to-graduate MBA students at CU Boulder yesterday. It was their last class in the course that had been filled with a bunch of interesting VC and entrepreneurial guest lecturers. We did Q&A for several hours, covered a lot of ground, and had plenty of fun (or at least I did.) At the end, the professor asked if I had any final words of advice to the room full of MBA’s who were about to graduate. I thought for a moment and then said an abbreviated version of the following.

When First Class Flights Make Sense!
Traveling in first class flights may not sound all logical especially when cheaper premium class seats get you to the same place in same time, however for selected few flying first class is more than just high life. It is their need. Find out why.
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