Archive for August 2009

Do You Have the Guts?

As a leader . . . Do you have the guts to hire a contrarian? Do you have the guts

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Sunday Morning Blog: Partners In Excellence

It’s been awhile since my last Sunday Morning Blog. I need to get better at this. However, if I don’t

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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)

I just down loaded Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) to my Kindle. It’s about cognitive dissonance theory and

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SXSW And Your Online Presence

A while back I wrote a post called; Online Presence – Asset of the Future: Why Social Graph Will Be

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Control vs. Influence

We don’t control very much in the world of sales. We like to think we do. We build neat little

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Berkshire Hathaway, and My Vacation

We are on vacation this week on Cape Cod. We are staying on Great Island with my friends from college.

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Are you a Thermometer or a Thermostat

I absolutely love this. Seth Godin quote from Tribes: “A thermostat is far more valuable than a thermometer. The thermometer

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Is Sales Changing?

I need your help. I’ve got this nagging feeling. I can’t completely get my arms around it. What it’s telling

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Don’t Kiss Your Customers Ass

The customer is not always right. Customers are wrong. They don’t always ask for reasonable things. Most of your customers

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Stop Rewarding The Naysayers

It’s easy to bash things that are new or unconventional. It’s easy to say someone is wrong when it’s a

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