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• Talking is Marketing Any time someone in your organization has any contact with your clients or prospects, they are performing a marketing function. Thanks to John Jantsch for this timeless thought.
• Failed Ideas as Fuel “Ideas are easy, so let’s have lots of them.” “Invest in them incrementally.” “Make sure that the ideas we invest in can be “recycled” by adding to the collective intelligence and business capabilities, so that if they don’t work out individually we have created food for other groups to use.” - Adam Richardson
• Sales Clerk Shops Competiton With Customer Until now there were only 5 responses you’ll receive when asking a store clerk about an item: “Yes, we have it. Allow me to get it for you.” “Yes we have it. It’s in aisle 4, I’ll show you.” “Yes we have it. It’s in aisle 4.” “No, we don’t carry it.” “No, we don’t carry it. Try my competitor.” That
• New Years Productivity Tip - Removing On-Screen Distraction While getting a few things done this holiday season I paid special attention to what was keeping me from staying focused, on-task. To kick this year off right, I’ve made some dramatic changes to my OS X desktop. From the menu bar, I’ve removed applications that change just enough to distract me. Including: clock (replaced with the
• Meaning at Work Pattern Language Third Culture had published an excellent Meaning at Work Pattern Language. I’d like to thank C. Keith Ray’s MemoRanda for bringing it to my attention.