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Thoughts On Google And China
Google’s decision to second-guess its relationship with China has raised some interesting questions recently. Namely, whether Google’s decision sprang from their moral opposition to censorship, or simply from a decreased financial interest in a country with a much more popular search engine, known as Baidu. So far, the controversy appears to be more of a commercial, as opposed to a political dilemma. A private, business-related concern. But whenever the question of morality, of a battle between good (Google) and evil, comes into play in the news, you can be sure that the blogosphere will start freaking out.

You Must be the Owner?
"You must be the owner"? That question has been asked of every employee at the store...except of our teens. WOW what does THAT say about our hiring, training, and keeping of our team? It means we looked for something extra in our potential team members...attitude. And that is something that doesn't show up on a resume under education or past jobs. To start, we did it by asking interesting questions in the interview and also using a personality assessment valuing each team members "natural" gifts. To keep them growing and glowing about our place, we've stayed actively involved in learning, communicating, experimenting, and adventuring! We've used advertisements but tweaked the words

Turn Cold Contacts into a Hot Network
Most Sales People sell at networking events, successful ones build credibility.

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Discover The Five Most Dangerous Reasons Stopping Salespeople Selling
Ever wondered why your sales just don’t happen? We have discovered and interesting trend and common denominator that might provide you with an interesting insight.
How To Improve Your Own Time Management Through Seven Strategic Questions, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Time is such a precious commodity and it is highly valued by strategic thinkers. Strategic thinking people want to get the most benefit out of their time and they have discovered that a great way to do just that is to develop the ability to ask yourself the strategic questions at the right time. And the beauty of this technique is that you only need to invest no more than sixty seconds to ask those questions before you begin any specific activity, task or assignment. The skill of asking the right questions must be acquired and as time goes by you will improve your ability to ask the real strategic questions. It is important to learn how to ask questions and one tip is to have your questions begin with the word “what.” Here is a list of seven strategic questions to ask.
Social Networking and the Modern Supply Chain: A Dialogue Spanning Multiple Social Networks
Multiple Network Members Questions It is an interesting aspect of social networking that diverse yet related questions/commentaries can be posed to create an answer stream (think strand commonality) that can collectively result in a cohesive dialogue in which all stakeholders obtain the answer that are applicable to their specific situation.

Select Seminars and Workshops with Purpose
Recently, one of my clients asked me about a seminar offered by a competitor. His questions to me were, “Howard, take a look at this and let me know if you think I should go, and if you want to come with me?” Rather than answer the questions directly, I left him with these thoughts and some questions to ask himself.
Probing: Leading and Controlling with Questions
What: is a probe Why: do we use probes Questions are one of the most powerful weapons in a salesperson’s arsenal of procedures and techniques. Questions require a prospect to participate actively in the sale. Questions help us learn the prospects hidden wants and needs. Questions give us time to gain lost composure. We must become excellent question askers and effective listeners.

Socratic Struggles
Using the Socratic Method to guide discussions is a well known tool. The method is frequently used in educational situations, but it can be a powerful tool at work if used well. The caveat is that it can be dangerous if used poorly. What has been your experience with using the Socratic Method? Are you alert to when other people are using the method with you? The attached article has some of my thoughts on this subject and gives a list and examples of the six types of socratic questions. 1. Questions of Clarification. 2. Questions that probe assumptions. 3. Questions that probe reasons and evidence. 4. Questions that probe perspective. 5. Questions that probe consequences. 6. Questioning the question
What questions should I ask when buying a business?
There are many questions buyers typically ask when thinking of buying a business that include the level of sales, qualifications and motivations of the employees, questions about landlord and suppliers. While these questions are helpful and appropriate, this article offers some more questions that will help in the decision of buying a business.

Can Your Salespeople Sell More Effectively by Asking More Questions?
Selling by asking questions is hard. A list of questions isn't the answer. Left to their own devices, your salespeople won't be able to create the kind of questions that are needed. You might not be able to either.
Three Tricky Questions On Trust
Trust is a very interesting subject. It is central to good leadership and a critical component of any good culture. Yet, trust is an enigma. This article asks three probling questions about trust that will get you thinking.

Executive Effectiveness: Becoming an Effective Leader
Recently on LinkedIn I posed three questions that resulted in some very interesting conversations. Here they are: 1) An executive is only a leader if people choose to follow. How can you tell whether people are following or just doing their job? 2) Everyone says leadership is important, but why does it make a difference? 3) If an executive...
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