DECEMBER 2007

DECEMBER, 2007

Meet Your Customers

They may already be your customers.

Kids today! They spend too much time on the computer. That may be true but it's a reality your business better be prepared to face.

The kids pictured here know how to find what they want online. They know how to find good deals online too. Admittedly, these girls may be a little young to be buying from your business but they do have influence on the credit card ...

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DECEMBER, 2007

2008 Could Be Great!

Review your playbook because the rules of business have changed.

Many companies are going to have a very bad 2008. Some won't survive the year. Many businesses will "cut back" as sales and margins fall. The "grow by cutting" businesses will never regain their former glory.

The hardships will hit the big and the small. No sector is safe. It doesn't matter if you sell a product or a service, your business is going ...

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DECEMBER, 2007

Email Overload Kills Productivity

After years of naming a product or person of the year, Basex Inc. decided to name "information overload" as problem of the year for 2007.

The named primary culprit of information overload is email. Email is responsible for millions of lost work hours annually. Paradoxically, email also saves millions of would be lost hours too. Countless telephone calls and letters are replaced with quickly composed and instantly delivered email messages.

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DECEMBER, 2007

Get Back in the Box

Get back in the box!

It's time to stop thinking outside of the box. Yes indeed, it's time to get back into the box and do some serious thinking.

Thinking inside the box used to mean restraining creativity with the limitations of conventional thinking. Somebody came up with the idea of breaking through the constraints allowing fresh ideas from outside of the conventional rules of how to approach problems. That's not a bad idea ...

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DECEMBER, 2007

Change Things If This Applies to Your Business

I give Dilbert full credit for summarizing what would take me 3 hours to write. No image is necessary.

"Why does it seem as if most of the decisions in my workplace are made by drunken lemurs?"

"Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent."

"Why are talented people so busy?"

"They're fixing the problems made by people who have time."

Chris@TeachU.com

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DECEMBER, 2007

A Mixed Bag of Metaphors

What's the oulook of your crop?

Is the direction of your business set by a surgeon? Fire him and get a farmer.

Anyone who has had a doctor explain a medical condition to them almost always follows up with the request for a plain English prognosis. It goes like this:

Doctor: "Sir, you are suffering from singultus but we can treat it."

Patient: "What is that?"

Doctor: "You suffer from a state of having reflex ...

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DECEMBER, 2007

A Pair o' Docs

Two physicians are not a paradox.

I would like to point out some interesting pardoxes.

From reading my Blog, you know I consult to businesses. In my years of working with hundreds of companies, I've discovered some disturbing patterns. These are my 4 paradoxes of business.

Paradox #1. The businesses that could most benefit from some outside thought won't accept it. The successful businesses are the ones always looking for ways to improve.

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DECEMBER, 2007

Who NOT to Train When You start Your Training Program

He has no idea.

There are some people who should not be included in your planned training program. Your first clue to the employees who should not participate are those you believe most need the training. When you decide it's time to do some training, take a close look at this group before you waste a single cent.

There are some who will benefit from your training investment and some who will not. The employees ...

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