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Ready or Not, Your Customer is Calling the Shots...As She Should Be!

Posted On 1/14/2012 by Karen A. Meek | | 0 comments



‘Tis the season for all good business analysts to announce their top trend lists for the year.  Just do a search for “2012 trends” and you’ll get pages of hits for what people will drink, how we’ll exercise, which mobile apps and cars we’ll buy, where we’ll travel, where we’ll send our kids to school, what colors we’ll paint our homes, how we’ll invest our money, what stocks we’ll follow in 2012, etc., etc.

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Love All, Serve All – Just Do It

Posted On 12/05/2011 by Karen A. Meek | | 0 comments


For many of us, service implies the work we do for our employers, customers, families, and friends. We serve to receive something back in turn – love, or money, or security, or favors, for examples. On an esoteric level, we may believe that our service will bring “good karma,” in the spirit of what goodness goes around surely comes back around in the end.

But what about giving service just for the sake of doing it, without any expectations or outcomes tied to it? Are we Me-focused Americans bereft of altruism? Maybe not. Maybe, but not all of the time.

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Ask for Help

Posted On 10/03/2011 by Karen A. Meek | | 1 comments



During the summer, I visited several colleges with my daughter who has begun the exciting, yet daunting task of searching for and applying to her top-pick universities. We've also attended college application seminars at her high school, and have accumulated stacks of admissions information to wade through. 

What I've learned consistently from these experiences is, "When in doubt, just ask." 

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Realize Your Intentions with Clearly Defined Goals

Posted On 8/29/2011 by Carl E. Reid | | 0 comments

 
Successful intrapreneurs have these common characteristics:

  • They communicate their ideas and desires clearly, leaving little room for misunderstanding about what they want to achieve.
  • They engage others to help them reach objectives, because they communicate the benefits of what will come from accomplishing goals.

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Single Point of Career Failure

Posted On 8/03/2011 by Carl E. Reid | | 2 comments



In many industries an inordinate, but necessary, amount of time is spent developing disaster recovery plans for business continuity.  What about your business?  Have you developed a disaster recovery plan for your single source of income from your job?

One income is a serious single point of failure. 

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