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Volume 9, Issue 2: What’s Your Business - in 15 words or less please!

What’s Your Business - in 15 words or less please! If you were asked to state in 20 seconds what your business is all about, could you? I have always believed this is crucial. I have heard many business people share what they do at events around the world and many cannot do so without using lengthy descriptions, industry jargon or leaving out what is vital to their customers.

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Volume 9, Issue 1: Setting The Vision (even in tough times)

HAVE A VISION! If you don’t have a vision of where you are going, you are on the road to nowhere – especially in trying times! Anything will put you off - with predictions of economic doom all around, you will be easily dragged under.

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Do I Need a Mentor?

Many people have asked me about mentorship over the years. A mentor could be a business coach, someone you look up to or someone you can learn from on a regular basis. I see them as people you allow to speak into your life with advice, correction, encouragement and even warning. Over the years I have had people like this in my life – not on a formal basis, but as good friends and often trusted leaders I’ve listened to, met with and taken wisdom from.

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Volume 8, Issue 9: Innovative Thinking

How does innovation begin?
Every few months, a light bulb in Tom Simpson’s office would burn out and someone would have to change it. Even fluorescents don’t last too long when they are on for overtime, cleaners and night security. A co-worker, Ray Johnson, came up with a new idea. Combining several technologies from cellphone & laptop screens to channel low wattage LED lights, he put together a ‘superbulb’ that burned brighter, cooler and lasted way longer without the ‘laser beam’ effect of older LEDs. Another credit to the 3M Corporation who gives employees 15% innovation time.

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Volume 8, Issue 8: Bring New Life To Your Business & Career

In the desert there are two categories of birds.

The Vulture – looking for and surviving on dead things
The Hummingbird – looking for fresh new living plants

Despite changes in government, the economy or other issues that come and go, we should always be looking for fresh, new and living ways to improve our business or career.

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Volume 8, Issue 7: Discounting is a Drug

No-one wins long term when discounting becomes your primary sales tactic. Unless it is used strategically, it becomes a drug you cannot stop and customers come to expect, even demand discounts every time they purchase.

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Volume 8, Issue 6: You Must Learn To Delegate

Picture this:
Snoopy is lying on top of his famous doghouse, complaining that there’s too much to do. In the final frame of the cartoon, he sighs, “I hate being head beagle!” Snoopy’s view of leadership aside, if you like the privileges of being ‘head beagle,’ but not the responsibilities, you probably haven’t learned the art of delegation.

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Volume 8, Issue 5: Speak a Different Language

Successful people speak a different language!

I recently read:
That all new employees at Disneyland experience a multi-day training program where they quickly learn a new language. They are shown a new way to see their jobs that could easily become mundane.

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Volume 8, Issue 4: Stimulate Your Learning

American cartoonist and columnist Frank Tyger noted:
“Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.”

Break your normal pattern
For example: if you normally read leadership books, try one on creativity for a change. Or try a biography. If you like to watch comedies, try a mystery. Get your mind thinking. We tend to fall into comfortable patterns and do things on automatic pilot. If you push yourself to do something different, you might be surprised at what you learn.

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Volume 8, Issue 3: Do you want to grow?

Look, Listen, Watch & Apply
You’re never too old.
More than 2,000 years ago, the Roman statesman, Cato, learned Greek at age 80. When asked why he was tackling such a difficult task at his age, he replied, “It’s the earliest age I have left.” When he was 84 years old he declared, Old men retain their intellects well enough, if only they keep their minds active and fully employed.

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