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Your Story – Your Choice

Please add your comments at the bottom… many thanks. Time to Read: About the time to boil an egg  Story One: 1 min 31 secs Story Two: 2 mins 35 secs Time to Fly – 1 min 26 secs One Once upon a time, there was a large mountainside, where an eagle’s nest rested. The eagle’s nest contained four large…Continue Reading

Ditch The Flawed Focus

YOU are far more likely to take action and be persistent when you focus on what you want, rather than on what you don’t want. No matter how negative a situation appears this week, no matter how few choices you think you have, and above all, no matter how others are reacting, always focus very…Continue Reading

Customers Come First

BUSINESS is not just about making money, it is about delighting your customers. making money is the by-product. And you will delight your customers by following through and delivering on what you promise. So, this month, and always, follow through and deliver on your promise. Be seen to deliver your agreement. And if something goes…Continue Reading

Nomination Capps A Great Year For Steven

FROM shop floor to executive suite, print room to boardroom. Steven Capper’s rags-to-riches style rise from a Margaret Thatcher-inspired Youth Training Scheme in 1980s Britain to potential UK Chief Information Officer of The Year for 2013 was borne from a desire to make a difference. For Steven – innovative and ground-breaking IT Director for construction…Continue Reading

Make Your Product Beneficial

HAVE you got lovely features? Of course you have. Let me rephrase that. Has your product got lovely features? Even if it has, your customer will not necessarily need an explanation on the colour, the design or the aesthetics. What your clients will want to know are the benefits they can glean from it. So,…Continue Reading

Don’t Deal In Broken Promises

EVERY customer/supplier dispute, the loss of a customer, a fallout with a client, a decision by a potential customer not to come to you, or return to you – they all come down to one thing. It’s an actual or perceived (same thing) broken promise. Make sure you deliver and follow through on your deals,…Continue Reading

Thought For The Week

WHEN we know that we have enough, that we are enough, and that no-one and nothing can ever take those away from us, we have self-belief. And more, we know that our self-esteem is actually enhanced by having people around us who think differently, because we know that while we have enough, we can always…Continue Reading

There’s More Than One Best Way For Mike

ON Thursday 9 July, 2009, The Naked Office http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/the-naked-office—virgin-9pm-405335 premiered on British television. It featured an entrepreneurial company in Newcastle, onebestway, led by Mike Owen, and Naked Leader founder David Taylor, whose dual role was to strip away the problems to help the company grow while persuading people in the office, as a symbol of…Continue Reading