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Survive or Thrive: It’s Your Choice
The U.S. economy is experiencing a rough patch right now, and organizations in all sectors are faced with the challenges. While the media focus on stories about how people & organizations are suffering financially & otherwise, everything is not doom and gloom. There are businesses that are doing just fine, and opportunities abound for those who seek them. Whichever scenario fits your situation, my contention is that you have the ability to optimize your quality of life, and that of your organization, by choosing how you view your circumstances. Though there are things we are unable to control, we can control how we perceive our respective situations. How we view ourselves and the world around us leads us to take actions that shape the quality of our lives. That perception is a choice each of us is free to make at any time.
Lesson #2: Build A Powerful Brand
In 2005, Branson said his goal was to turn Virgin into “the most respected brand in the world.” Branson is not far off from achieving his goal. Virgin was recently found to be one of the UK’s top three favourite and most respected brand names and both the brand and the man behind it are known throughout the world.

100 Ways to Succeed #78
Speak Not Ill of Thine Competitors
TripleBottomLine of your Sustainable business
New York City, where I live, is going through a rough patch these days. As you know, some of Wall Street’s biggest are falling all around us. Yet it is exactly as it should be. Why? The market is correcting itself from our unsustainable ways. Sustainability is really all about the triple-bottom-line: people, profits and planet. Here’s how it applies to New York’s falling giants: What is your company's triple-bottle-line, in creating a sustainable business.
Team Building and Team Caring
Finish this statement about "when the going gets tough....." and it is often completed with some statement like "everybody goes shopping" or everybody makes margaritas". What's your idea for when it's tough in the world? So, what happens in the workplace when there is a rough patch? Do employees shop or sip or roll up their sleeves to help each other? In the best of all possible worlds, they help each other. Or they could if they had the right road map. In Total Leadership Connections, a leadership program that absolutely puts the spotlight on interactions between individuals rather than on just how specific individuals respond, the point is driven home with snippets from the film "Cool Running". This fun film is based on a true story to point out the power of teammates who have weathered tough times and redefined success.
Customer Service do you get it
Building relationships is the cornerstone of all sales - how do you get started?

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TripleBottomLine of your Sustainable business
New York City, where I live, is going through a rough patch these days. As you know, some of Wall Street’s biggest are falling all around us. Yet it is exactly as it should be. Why? The market is correcting itself from our unsustainable ways. Sustainability is really all about the triple-bottom-line: people, profits and planet. Here’s how it applies to New York’s falling giants: What is your company's triple-bottle-line, in creating a sustainable business.
Survive or Thrive: It’s Your Choice
The U.S. economy is experiencing a rough patch right now, and organizations in all sectors are faced with the challenges. While the media focus on stories about how people & organizations are suffering financially & otherwise, everything is not doom and gloom. There are businesses that are doing just fine, and opportunities abound for those who seek them. Whichever scenario fits your situation, my contention is that you have the ability to optimize your quality of life, and that of your organization, by choosing how you view your circumstances. Though there are things we are unable to control, we can control how we perceive our respective situations. How we view ourselves and the world around us leads us to take actions that shape the quality of our lives. That perception is a choice each of us is free to make at any time.
Is Outsourcing The Right Strategy For Small Businesses During Slow Economy?
“When things get tough the tough gets going.” Here the latter word “tough” implies people who equip themselves with the best practices and some added innovation to see through the rough, in this context, the slow economy. Let’s pick outsourcing, as a strategy to counter this rough time and understand whether it is a sensible move to make or not.
Inspirational Leaders Know How To Focus
It happens to all of us. No one can stay completely focused, with intensity, all the time. But when you find yourself in a bad patch, when nothing seems to be working in your job or your business, think about renewing your focus....
Acres of Diamonds
Your greatest opportunities lie under your own feet. They lie in your intellect, your talent and abilities, your education and experience, as well as with your family members, friends and business contacts. The challenge is that in the rough, a diamond does not look like a diamond that we are familiar with. It looks like a black, rough piece of rock and must be cut, shaped and polished repeatedly before it glistens like the valuable stone that it is.

Team Building and Team Caring
Finish this statement about "when the going gets tough....." and it is often completed with some statement like "everybody goes shopping" or everybody makes margaritas". What's your idea for when it's tough in the world? So, what happens in the workplace when there is a rough patch? Do employees shop or sip or roll up their sleeves to help each other? In the best of all possible worlds, they help each other. Or they could if they had the right road map. In Total Leadership Connections, a leadership program that absolutely puts the spotlight on interactions between individuals rather than on just how specific individuals respond, the point is driven home with snippets from the film "Cool Running". This fun film is based on a true story to point out the power of teammates who have weathered tough times and redefined success.
Hitting the Sweet Spot
Anyone who’s ever played golf knows about the ‘sweet spot’. It’s that favoured spot on the clubface – hit the sweet spot and it feels good, you’re in control of the ball and that birdie is yours for the taking. If you don’t hit that spot, it doesn’t feel right, you spend your time hacking in the rough and before you know it you’re in a bad patch.
Reflections of a Lone Sales Wolf
How time flies. I remember back in the mid 1970's when professional selling was easy and a whole lot of fun. We were Lone Wolfs back then. We controlled everything, we were professionals, we owned a patch of dirt. All we had to do to maintain ownership was to produce sales. We had our tools, a company car, trunk files, brochures, samples and a calendar/card file. As time passed, some of us even got car phones. Sure, we did call reports and had sales meetings, but make no mistake, we were pros. We owned that patch of dirt and most of the customers who were on it. If we chose to leave for greener pastures, most of our customers went with us. We had respect. Everything focused on relationships. I mentioned how I even remember my first sales training seminar, "Needs Satisfaction Selling." I was a rookie and having the time of my life.

Sales Management --Unmask the Confusion of Territory Account Assignment
When I carried a bag, sales territories were defined geographically. Of course, that was in the old days. My daughter calls it the days of Black & White Television. In reality, color television came out when I was still only seven years old. But in the days when I was a field sales rep, the 70’s & 80’s, a sales person got a chunk of geography and you were told this is your patch of dirt. You go out and you farm the territory and you build the business. However, for the most part, if you are going to grow your territory it has to grow by taking market share from the competition. Territories today need to go from being geographically defined to being key account assignment defined. So, in other words, when you use the term, ‘territory’ today, you’re not referring to a patch of dirt.

Are You A Winner?
Do you know exactly what a winner is? Do you take responsibility for your actions? When the going gets rough? Do you get going?

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