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Needling for the Need
This article shares a brief tale wherein one service oriented person dared to get to the heart of a matter and unearthed the customer's want. What follows is a brief exercise that may be performed in a staff meeting.
Death by Assumption: Why Great Planning Strategies Fail
To often, assumptions are not clearly identified or managed so that when a plan goes south, there is no way to go back and reevaluate or manage the original assumptions. The absence of "assumption management" is a common cause of the death of many strategic plans. Assumptions must be stated, debated, and continually reevaluated as the plan goes forward. We've provided three practical steps you can take to manage your planning assumption.

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Look for the Loose Brick
I hear salespeople say that speaking to a particular prospect was like "hitting a brick wall." The prospect's guard was up in full force. The prospect seemed to get bored or, worse yet, to actually become defensive or offensive, as the case may be, every time the salesperson mentioned a product benefit or feature. It pains me to hear this, as I've known exactly what it feels like to be in such a position.
Murder Walls for Crime Novelists
If you watch most great crime dramas such as Law & Order and Without a Trace, you will notice that investigators often use visuals on a wall to keep each case organized. This is a Murder Wall. Imagine trying to write a story without knowing your suspects or their possible motives. Here's how authors can construct a Murder Wall...

De-Classifying Craigslist: How Newmark Took the Site to the Top
“I’ve never wanted to believe we’re ‘bigtime’ and don’t focus on that,” says Newmark. “At times I kinda realized something was really going on, like hitting one million page views per month, end of ’97, hitting a billion, August ’04, and recently, we were a clue on Jeopardy.”

What’s the worst word in Business? FAILURE!
What’s the worst word in Business? FAILURE! No one likes failure or those who have failed. Business is supposed to be about success, making profits, achieving objectives, going places and hopefully having fun! But being in business also means taking risks and making judgements that can and sometimes do go wrong. And hitting that brick wall of failure, sometimes when you least expect it; can be very painful both financially and personally.

Creating the Success Mindset
There is a reason that professional athletes visualize hitting a basket, sinking a putt, or hitting a homerun, they are aligning their thoughts and beliefs with their actions. The combination can be formidable. It is the secret to success in business and in life.

Change Management Led Zeppelin Style
Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, tells us that: “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” Organizations choose a wall against which to lean their ladder. The ladder represents the work that needs to be done to get to the top; the wall represents the field of endeavor – the product or market selected to work in. The thing is, once your ladder is against a particular wall and you are half way up it, it takes a lot of extra effort to climb down again and move the ladder to a different wall (metaphorically speaking of course).

Are you STREAKIN\' or SLUMPIN\'?
Up or down? Making money or working hard? On a roll or in a rut? Where do you fall today? What exactly is a SLUMP? In baseball, have you ever noticed that they call it a batting SLUMP when you are not producing, but they call it a hitting STREAK when you are on a roll? Why is that? Why don’t they call it a hitting slump? Why isn’t it known as a batting streak? It seems that a batting SLUMP has the connotation that you are getting poor results from lackluster efforts, whereas it seems that a hitting STREAK suggests that your above average results are based not upon efforts, but upon action! Let’s break down those two words to see what they truly are. By using one, we may combat and even possibly avoid the other.
Successful Failures
In a small pub in the highlands of Scotland, a group of fishermen gathered one afternoon to swap tales over a round of ale. One of them stretched his arms apart to show the big one that got away. At that very point, a waitress walked past carrying a tray of full ale glasses. The fisherman's wild gestures sent the tray smashing against the wall. The dark brew splashed on the white wall of the pub and began running down. The waitress and the fisherman tried to wipe the mess off the wall, but it had left an ugly dark stain.
Wealth Management Expert In Sacramento Keith Springer Quoted In The Wall Street Journal
Wall St Flat Ahead of Europe Summit. Keith Springer is quoted in the Wall Street Journal discussing the impact of the European crisis on the US economy.

How to Discover the Champion in You and Achieve Your Goals
Have you ever felt like your back was against the wall? You didn't know what to do? Everyone goes through periods when they feel pressured. Why do some people succeed when their back is against the wall, while others fold? This article discusses how to use four strategies when your back is against the wall.

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