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Using Tiger Woods’s Clubs Every Day of Your Life
Step on to the putting green with me. I hand you a putter and I tell you it had once been used by golfing great…
August 9, 2012In Memorium, Stephen R. Covey
Stephen R. Covey, Herald of Good Habits, Dies at 79 By DOUGLAS MARTIN As appeared in The New York Times, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 Stephen…
July 20, 2012Opportunity Meetings
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. “All one can hope to get by solving a problem is to restore normality. All…
July 3, 2012How to Get Ahead in Business
These quotations are taken from a May 18, 2012, Wall Street Journal article by John Bussey, “How Women Can Get Ahead: Advice from Female CEOs,”…
June 21, 2012How to Earn Your Boss’s Respect
Easy! 1. Proactively ‘fess up to material mistakes, significant errors, and missed targets. 2. Take full responsibility for solving challenges. Fully live up to this…
June 14, 2012Muda, Mura, Muri
Muda, Mura, and Muri are three Japanese words representing core focuses in the Toyota Way of eliminating waste and inefficiency and increasing profitability. MUDA –…
May 22, 2012Wantology
Wantology is a process for clarifying what we REALLY want rather than what we think we want. Most of us do not put a lot…
May 17, 2012Repeatability: Staying True to Your Core
“Repeatability” is both the theme and the title of a new book by Chris Zook and James Allen, consultants with Bain & Company. Great companies…
May 10, 2012Fuerte en la Cabeza
Fuerte en la cabeza means strong in the head, mental toughness. Mental toughness is many things, including the ability to stay cool, calm, and collected…
May 8, 2012Pre-Fail
It is a lot easier to talk the talk than walk the walk. This is especially true when it comes to quality, excellence, and crisp…
May 3, 2012Workafrolics
The best achievers in life are NOT workaholics, they are “workafrolics.” They enjoy what they do, they are invigorated by it, and enthralled by the…
April 12, 2012