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Lesson #5: Make Your Workers Happy
“You have to employ winners, and then allow winners to do what they do,” says Simmons. “You have to give them autonomy, which means, in a lot of cases, the opportunity to make mistakes.”
Lesson #4: An Open Door is A Company Score
You have been on the job for five years now. You come in every day at 8 a.m. and stay until well past closing time. You work hard, you work well, and you have never taken a sick day. So, when that better position opens up, you think you have a good chance of getting it. But, when your application comes back rejected, what do you do? You feel like your efforts are not being justly rewarded, but who can you talk to about it? Well, if you work at Costco, you can go straight to the head honcho, the man in charge, Jim Sinegal.

The Door to My Office is Always Open! ...or is it?
We're all challenged to make better and faster decisions. How do you do this? One way is can expand your sphere of information and thereby minimize the amount of guesswork involved. This month I've called on Bob Newhart and Tom Peters to help examine some traditional approaches for getting to the real story and why they often fail to produce the candor needed to assure that your critical decisions are sound. How effective are your channels for building business insight? You're invited to invest 90 seconds and learn five ways to improve your personal information gathering skills. And I share a new smarter, solution that likely trumps anything you've already tried.
Preparing for the upturn - Retaining and attracting the best skills in the market.
With the first signs of economic recovery upon us employers need to be prepared for the upturn, they need to focus on retaining skills and keep employees engaged in their work, if voluntary turnover increases after an economic downturn, then companies have to bear the costs to recruit, train, and attract new employees to replace those who have left. Replacing lost employees quickly becomes expensive. Not only does turnover have financial implications, it also impacts workplace performance. However this is just the tip of the iceberg as customer relationships are impacted, knowledge is lost and often other employees have to pick up the slack, causing increased levels of stress among the remaining workforce.
Network Marketing Prospecting: Cockamamie Fridays
In the past network marketers used a subtle, back door approach to pitch you on their product or service. Today it is a wham-bam in your face approach: come and get it. Now.
How To Choose The Best Network Marketing Company, Part 3: Who says No or Yes?
A network marketing company should be as selective and careful about choosing to work with you, as you are being selective and careful about choosing to work with them! Partnering in any business should be a two-way road. Here are 4 recruiting tactics that a good recruiter/team leader should exhibit when interviewing you.
Doing a solid for the Brand next door
At a crossroads of content and the seemingly vast sea of digital options, there has never been a more important time for the field of Marketing. It's a wonder with so many solutions, so many options, so many brands are going so wrong and it's actually contributing to the pains on Wall Street and Main Street. So when you hear Obama remind us of our individual responsibility, consider your responsibility as a Marketer. Whether you are selling traditional tools or cutting edge goodies, on retainer or fighting for every inch, you need the chance to tell your clients what they need and need not. Well it's not always easy so before you start taking it out on the family dog, get out your comfy clothes and settle in for the long haul. That's right, you heard me, the best way to be the man (or woman) with you client is to start being the BFF.
Make the TIME
It is not all WORK. Networks and relationships contribute to but they need TIME as well.
Your Sanity Savers - Have Time for the Good Life - Part One
Interruptions can be a huge time waster! Today there are more ways than ever to get interrupted, someone at your door, phone, cell phone, pager, instant messaging, email and more. Gain control of your environment by practicing some of these tips. The following tips will help you gain control of your time and your sanity!
"10 Ways To Improve Employee Loyalty"
Any successful business owner will tell you that finding quality and loyal employees is very difficult. In most respects this cut throat world that we live in is to blame. No matter how good a company is there is always a place that seems to be better. This is the old grass is greener on the other side of the fence type thought process.
Top 10 Ways To Create An Employee Incentive Program
Any successful business owner will tell you that finding quality and loyal employees is very difficult. In most respects this cut throat world that we live in is to blame. No matter how good a company is there is always a place that seems to be better. This is the old grass is greener on the other side of the fence type thought process. However, it is now more then ever, for a company to hold onto the employees that are producing for them. This is a difficult task considering the fact that some other company is lurking around the corner waiting for you to slip up so they can snatch said employee.
Making Time for Team Building Relationships
Whatever else you are doing - STOP! - whenever you engage with someone in conversation. Ignore pagers. Put off interruptions. At the very least make sure that you 'honour' the space that you have when you are in any sort of one-to-one with someone else...
No Trespassing
It’s sometimes funny how everyday experiences can spark off thoughts about deeper things. I recently had an experience with neighbours about an unclear boundary between our adjoining properties that was causing confusion with access, maintenance responsibilities etc. There was no clear dividing line!

Is Your Open Door Policy Killing You?
What is your Open Door policy? Does it provide time to think, strategize, design and plan? Thinking requires uninterrupted time. Boundaries must be set to create space for uninterrupted strategy time, while leaving room for Open Door conversations.

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But They Mean Well
You’re in the middle of a huge project at work, a family dinner, or some much deserved alone time, when the phone rings, a relative barges in, or a co-worker pops in. You’re annoyed, but reluctant to say anything because you like your open-door policy, you don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, or you don’t want anyone upset with you.

Customers that care
I visited the new Apple store in NYC on 14th Street yesterday. This one isn't as flashy as the one in midtown, and it has a fairly annoying design flaw. The two front doors don't close. Push them open, walk away and the door stays open.
Ethical Transformation of a Leader
Ethical Transformation of a Leader explains the ethical standards necessary for leadership transformation to take place. This process opens leaders to intrinsic transformation through interactive experience, which often entails personal sacrifices. It is the leader’s responsibility to create a culture in which people are treated properly and where an open-door policy is not an empty phrase but a reality. Therefore, if a leader oversees fundamental principles, such as fair play and honesty, success will follow.

Discover How to Follow Your Heart
When you become aware of the root of achievement, every door you wish to go through will open wide. It truly is the key to success. Whether you use it to open the door or not is your choice, something you have total control over. Whether you choose to open the door or not depends solely on your heart-set, not your mind-set. A mind-set is a fixed mental attitude formed by experience, education, and tradition. A mind-set is not the reason you succeed. In fact, it is often the reason you fail. The things you have your mind set on are often either expediencies and emergencies or idle reveries, so your prevailing mind-set lacks the power to sustain effort over time toward the kinds of lifetime achievements that bring real fulfillment.
The Serendipity Factor
Incredible things happen independently of those you personally create. I call these serendipitous blessings. When you're pushing hard on door A, someone or something opens door B. Often, when you look through door B, what's behind it is much better than what you were going after in the first place. However, you wouldn't have seen door B open if you hadn't been in the hall pushing on door A. Get in the here and now and look for the other opened doors, or go open some doors on your own.
Find out the 7 Top Copyrighting Tips
Most government or legal writing is passive, such as “enclosed in this envelope is a contract.” Something more active would be: “you’ll find in this envelope a contract I’ve included.” Passive writing is usually without a person doing something in the sentence. Active writing is when you have somebody doing something in the sentence. “The door was open” is passive. “Joe opened the door” is active. “Joe kicked open the door,” is even more active.
5 Caveats to the "Open Door" Policy
Most organizations have an "Open Door" policy to protect employees from bully supervisors. The idea is to make it safe to bring a problem to a higher level of management. The method can be helpful, but I have found it to be fraught with problems. This paper describes five of the most significant problems with the "Open Door" Policy and suggests a simple antidote.

Speed Networking: 6 Tip Planned Approach to Networking Follow-up
The only thing “speedy” about speed networking is the number of people you meet. To increase your success of finding potential connectors, collaborators or customers, it’s crucial you follow-up. You opened the door and so it's up to you,not the prospect, to keep that door open. Here are the top six tips to consider in your follow-up planning:
The Benefits, and Obligations, of Unlawful Harassment Training
The continuing rise of employment litigation, managers and employers can no longer take a passive approach to unlawful harassment training. Telling an employee about a policy is insufficient. Management must become proactive in educating all employees, reinforcing an open-door policy and responding immediately to all inappropriate behavior in the workplace.

Stop Managing and Start Leading
Ask any group of managers if they view themselves as an elite within their organization and you can be sure they will deny it. You'll hear comments such as: "I have an open-door policy" and "I take pride in always being accessible and approachable." And in most cases, these managers will really believe what they are saying. What they don't realize, however, are the many invisible barriers - the "glass doors" - they put in place.

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