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THE NUMBER ONE, SECRETLY ENCODED, AND GUARANTEED RETURN INVESTMENT TIP FOR 2014!
I have worked in several financial/administrative jobs. My brother works in sales. My wife is a teacher and her sister now works for a...
rick13714
Dec 26, 20132 min read
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Profits Thru People – Action Steps – Part II
Customer Retention Customer Retention is all about you. To the customer, the employee is the business. Customers judge you on how you...
rick13714
Nov 15, 20131 min read
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Engagement Tip # 3 – How to solve “their” problem
Women always have it. Men can take it or leave it. Babies are fascinated by it. What is it? The number one leadership tool is the mirror....
rick13714
Aug 20, 20131 min read
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What I Learned Vacationing in National Parks
Driving into Las Vegas to catch our return flight was shock therapy to get my head out of vistas and back toward the “real” world. If...
rick13714
Jul 5, 20133 min read
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The High Cost of “Stuff”
On the recommendation of a client, I spent a week at the Personal Leadership Development Program™ developed by the Leadership Trust® in...
rick13714
Apr 28, 20132 min read
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When Do You Hire Your Employees?
#employeeorientation #employeeretention #Onboarding
rick13714
Jan 25, 20131 min read
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The E word is Everywhere
My son is engaged, the world seems dis-engaged, Israel and Hamas are too engaged and we send diplomats to “engage” in diplomacy. And my...
rick13714
Nov 26, 20123 min read
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#Flip Thinking about Employees and Customers
In teaching a course on entrepreneurship and creating a business plan, some “flip thinking” happened. In the discussion of ,”Who is your...
rick13714
Aug 15, 20122 min read
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Blue Skies and Exit Interviews
#ExitInterviews #morale #feedback #CLOpeopleandproductivity #ContinualLearning #conflictresolution
rick13714
Jul 26, 20121 min read
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Laughing at Myself to Make My Day
And I am smiling. Seriously. Laughing at your failures, mistakes, and uh-ohs is a great way to maintain a proper perspective and keep...
rick13714
May 31, 20122 min read
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Vacation Training and Asking Forgiveness
We all love the concept of employee empowerment and delegation. The beauty of vacations is they put you to the test on these concepts....
rick13714
May 9, 20122 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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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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Remarkable Confluence on Leadership
Driving home last night John Maxwell in his latest Success Magazine CD interview explained how his real joy comes from bringing out the...
rick13714
Mar 10, 20122 min read
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The Lifetime Value of a Mentor
In my entrepreneurship course tonight we focused on the lifetime value of a customer. Lots of lightbulbs went off and even managers of...
rick13714
Feb 27, 20122 min read
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Playing your way onto the bus
I also noticed that everyone’s true colors came out in a game of Mexican dominos. Some people love to win as long as they see a way to...
rick13714
Feb 21, 20122 min read
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Passion Never Sleeps
Sitting in a coalition meeting of Project Rebound, a steering group coordinating many social service agencies for those affected by the...
rick13714
Feb 9, 20122 min read
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A profitable life at any level
Started teaching a course on entrepreneurship tonight and the subject turned to cash flow. We were taking about the 7 C’s of lending...
rick13714
Feb 6, 20122 min read
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The 80/20 rule or why the rich get richer
Part of my job is to bring quality training to my local business market. For our tourist based market, the Disney Institute’s one day...
rick13714
Jan 27, 20121 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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