The Battle for Relevance You and your business are more likely to become irrelevant before you ever become obsolete. Blackberry is a great example. Its market share for smartphones was 40% in 2010. It is less than 2% today despite an 85% growth in the number of annual smartphone sales. Blackberry didn’t lose market share…
How To Work With A Jerk Five best-selling authors, Speaker Hall of Fame recipients, internationally-acclaimed business consultants and best buddies give their insights on business and life. From Joe Calloway: OK – here’s my answer. It’s the answer for me and not necessarily for you. The answer is that you don’t work with…
How Important is Teamwork to Business Success? Five best-selling authors, Speaker Hall of Fame recipients, internationally-acclaimed business consultants and best buddies give their insights on business and life. From Randy Pennington: It depends on your definition of “teamwork.” It is absolutely critical if you define teamwork as everyone having a shared vision; clear…
What is the Biggest Enemy of Business Success? Five best-selling authors, Speaker Hall of Fame recipients, internationally-acclaimed business consultants and best buddies give their insights on business and life. From Mark Sanborn: The worst enemy of business? Indifference. Indifference is a lack of concern, interest or sympathy and it hurts business in two…
Perspective: Why Is Customer Service So Bad At Most Places? Five real friends. All are world-renowned authors, speakers, trainers, coaches and consultants. Five points of view. Five perspectives. Less then five minutes to read. From Scott McKain: Customer service is bad at most places, because evidently that is what CEO’s and managers want.…
Perspective: What Is A Leaders Most Important Job? From Larry Winget: A leaders most important job: To lead. Duh. How do you lead? Not from behind, that’s for sure. Leaders have to get out in front with their ideas, vision, energy and presence. As I watch movies and TV shows about the battles of old,…
Perspective: What is the ONE thing you would do to fix the economy? From Joe Calloway: Fix the economy by electing grown-ups. I don’t quite know what to write about this, because with the attitudes of most people being firmly locked in an intransient “we’re right and they’re wrong” position, the idea that we might…
What you should and shouldn’t sacrifice to reach your goals. From Joe Calloway: I found this definition of sacrifice: “to give up something for something else considered more important.” I’m going with that. If you’ve set the right goal, you should sacrifice pretty much anything and everything for it, because if it’s your goal –…