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There's a new breed out there
Is it just me, or does there seem to be a new breed of people out there – I’m noticing them when I’m driving around. Several times over the last few months, I’ve had people crossing the road when my car is coming quickly towards them.

WORK- LIFE BALANCE
Truly successful people know how to keep their lives in balance. Such people are more creative, achieve more and are more socially accepted.

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The Innovation Process - From Vision to Reality
Innovation is a collaborative process through which organizations abandon old paradigms and make significant advances. Innovative ideas come from several sources, including: unreasonable demands, goals and time pressures. An organization must cultivate innovation and link it to their business improvement strategies to realize benefit from innovation.
Business Is No Guarantee of Riches
We have all had customers who expected far more than was their due: customers who were unreasonable, overly-demanding, condescending, hard to please and sometimes, even dishonest in their dealings with you. When a customer's reasonable expectations become unreasonable demands you must decide whether or not that customer is doing more harm to your business than good.
Dont Be Afraid To Give Problem Customers The Boot
We have all had customers who expected far more than was their due: customers who were unreasonable, overly-demanding, condescending, hard to please and sometimes, even dishonest in their dealings with you. When a customer's reasonable expectations become unreasonable demands you must decide whether or not that customer is doing more harm to your business than good.
Are Your Operations a Well-Oiled Machine?
“Customers now penalize businesses that infringe on their time, whether through delays, mistakes, or inconveniences.” Have you ever had that “customer from hell” who was unreasonable in her demands? Did a minor “screw up” in serving the customer cost you big bucks? Have you ever considered what it costs you to make a mistake? A mistake is a waste. "Waste is worse than loss." Thomas Edison

Dishonest Deadlines
People never have time to do things right but they always seem to have time to do them over. Is it by choice? No! They want to be able to do great work but unreasonable demands result in making promises staff just can't keep. So what do you do?
6 Parts to UnReasonable Success
Going beyond what you know you can do is the first step of being "UnReasonable." Learn how to take your business to the next level by setting unreasonable goals and following these six simple steps for success.

A Clear Goal Creates Momentum
Achieving the UnReasonable is only possible when you set clearly defined, measurable goals. Learn here how to fine-tune your goals to make the UnReasonable realistic.

Motivating Staff – (Empty) Words Are Not Enough!
In the course of my somewhat chequered career in marketing and sales, I worked for a range of small – medium businesses. One of the oft quoted platitudes from business owners was “we’re family here” – mostly said to entice employees to work enormous hours for no extra cash, to make unreasonable demands rather than requests and to create a general sense of guilt – as in: ‘we gave you a job…you owe us everything’ . This approach is often coupled with vague promises of future rewards.

Thermometer Manager or Thermostat Leader?
The late 19th century Irish playwright, critic, and social reformer, George Bernard Shaw, had a lot of useful things to say about personal effectiveness. A few of his comments have hung on my mirror or been posted in my day planner over the years. This one speaks to a core management-leadership choice we all have; "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man."
Workplace Stress Management
Workplace stress management is the ability to the successfully handle harmful physical and emotional responses that manifest when there is conflict between job demands, and the amount of control you have over meeting these demands. In general, the combination of high demands in a job and low amount of control over the situation can lead to stress. Stress in the workplace may come from one event or many different sources. Could be fear of job redundancy, layoffs especially in an increasing uncertain economy. Increased demands for overtime due to staff cutbacks, all act as negative stressors.

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