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Embrace Your Constraints
Everyone has one in 2020, something that changed your plans or kept you from doing what you expected to do this year. So what is the...
rick13714
Dec 28, 20203 min read
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Too Big To CARE
What I see is the opposite of Too Big To Fail. It’s Too Big To Care. The two largest institutions I deal with brought this home to me...
rick13714
Apr 25, 20132 min read
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Your Bibliography?
Having added daily writing to my action plan this year, I sat down this chilly Saturday morning to write. What hit me (like walking...
rick13714
Jan 5, 20132 min read
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Feedback and Continuous Improvement
http://todaysleanmanufacturing.com/tlm-005-guest-interview-with-rick-miller-discussing-continuous-improvement-lean-and-kaizen/ Boy, was...
rick13714
Mar 27, 20121 min read
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Becoming Patient Zero
Yet having a keen interest in leadership and motivation, I wonder about spreading to without what is not first spread within....
rick13714
Mar 21, 20122 min read
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Connecting with Your Customer
The way people look for, and receive, information is dramatically changing. TV and telephone have been replaced by texting and apps. Look...
rick13714
Mar 19, 20122 min read
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Free Agency and Job Security
The Ready to Work(“RTW”) program was designed to insure Alabama workers were “ready to work” when they started at the new high-tech...
rick13714
Mar 15, 20122 min read
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Connecting
Ever hear someone described as, “He/She’s got connections”? This statement usually implied the person has more connections than ability....
rick13714
Mar 12, 20123 min read
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Metric Failures
KPI taught me a lesson I still apply today. The less you understand about a problem the more information you request. The more you know...
rick13714
Mar 4, 20122 min read
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Teaching the Teacher
The course offered through a community college failed to attract enough students to “make” its March schedule. Unlike businesses, schools...
rick13714
Mar 1, 20122 min read
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A Balanced Life and Steve Jobs
I just finished reading Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography. Having lived in California is the 70’s and 80’s I found his covering of...
rick13714
Feb 19, 20122 min read
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Why Blog Daily?
During the market plan discussion in our entrepreneurship class, Calvin asked me, “Why do you blog daily?” Good question and I sought of...
rick13714
Feb 17, 20122 min read
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Size Matters
I learned a valuable lesson today that reinforced Seth Godin’s premise that mass and size matters. Promoting a customer service event I...
rick13714
Feb 16, 20122 min read
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Seeing what you hear appear
Today was a great day for so many reasons. Our events are getting booked, my associate gave a great presentation to the Optimists, an...
rick13714
Feb 8, 20123 min read
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Marketing in the Bazaar World
Thinking about Godin’s “Weird” analogy and Friedman’s earlier book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, I had another weird thought. In comes the...
rick13714
Feb 7, 20122 min read
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Creating Your Future in a Weird World
Seth Godin believes Weird, as in individualism is cool, has replaced Mass, which is fitting in. Mass is based on selling average...
rick13714
Jan 25, 20121 min read
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