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Mission Statement Madness: Make it your Mission Statement to Change Mission Statements.

Mission Statements?

Make it your Mission Statement to Change Mission Statements!

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The ABC of Achieving More with Less: The Mantra for Business Success in the Future.

More with less.

The business world not only could go in that direction and should go in that direction but it will go in that direction.

Look at the alternatives:

Do you seriously believe that successful business’ in the future will be based on achieving more by doing more? No way.

And you couldn’t honestly believe that your business can achieve more by doing the same. Won’t happen.

The world is moving towards a culture of efficiency: using less fuel, wasting less time, eliminating wasteful practices…about achieving more with less. Is your business – and are you – focused on ways of achieving more with less?

Here’s the ABC of achieving more with less.

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Nextperts: Because Everyone is an Expert.

The Internet has a lot going for it.

Free on line newspapers, web-mail, lots of great information and ideas: anyone can get anything, anytime, anywhere and without paying any money!

The downside – for service based businesses is……everyone now thinks they are an expert.

Want to know how to build a brick wall? Check out the 4560000 videos about home maintenance on YouTube.

Keen to improve your Spanish? Go to one of the 1000000 on line Spanish language programs.

Want to publish a book? Repaint some furniture? Plant a banana tree? It’s all there: anything, anywhere, anytime and for free.

Running a service industry??? The bell tolls for thee – unless…… Read more

Continuous Improvement, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Improvement, Continuous…

Do you want to win? No you don’t. Not really. You want to win and win and win and win!

Winning is rarely about doing it once and walking away. Winning is about sustaining performance: sustaining competitiveness: about getting to the top and staying there.

Lots of people, teams and companies win once – very few are able to adopt the thinking, systems and practices that enable them to sustain competitiveness year after year after year.

Why is sustainable competitiveness so important?

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Social Media – the S.M.A.R.T. Approach.

Lots of people are talking about Social Media.

Lots of people are getting excited and exhilarated about the potential of Social Media to change the world by providing simple, easy, readily accessible tools to communicate, create and collaborate.

And lots of people are getting baffled, befuddled and bedazzled about Social Media and just what it means to them?

As there are hundreds and hundreds of different social media options, let’s just call them collectively SMART – Social Media and Accelerated Relationship Technologies – S.M.A.R.T. Read more

Fundamentally Flawed: Five Business Fundamentals that do not work, have not worked and will not work.

If we learnt anything from the Global Economic melt down it is this….most of the accepted business fundamentals that people have written about, talked about and even preached about are wrong, do not work and need to change.

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High Performance Teams – do you have what it takes to be the best?

So you think you have a high performance team?

So you believe your team is the best of the best in your industry?

So you feel that your team is capable of creating a consistently competitive high performance environment?

Try the High Performance Teams quiz…..if you dare.
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Creating Creativity – Creative Thinking for Business Success

 

Knowledge is not power.

Things have power and value only when they are hard to get.

The Internet provides the opportunity for anyone to access anything anytime anywhere - and for free.

So now when everyone can readily access and acquire knowledge - knowledge itself is without power.

The real power – the real force in this century is creativity.

The ability to take knowledge – the same knowledge that everyone in the world can access – and by thinking differently – do amazing new, innovative, exciting and imaginative things with it.

The issue is – can you learn creativity? Can you teach someone to be creative?

Can you -”create creativity?” Read more

Rising to the Challenge: the Catalyst of Conflict, Creativity and Change.

The desire to succeed is common.

The dream of success is everywhere.

The goal to succeed is universal.

The difference between desiring success, dreaming of success and setting goals to achieve success is in your ability to rise to the challenge.

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Succession Planning: There’s no one like you – but that’s a good thing.

Here’s the great succession planning quiz:

How many companies have strategically planned for a seamless, well orchestrated succession planning model and had it actually work out as well (or better) than they had anticipated?

• 100% – No way.
• 80& – You are dreaming!
• 60% – Incredibly unlikely.
• 40% – No chance.
• 20% – You are getting warm.
• None – Bingo.

Succession planning has not, does not and will not work unless we challenge and change the way we do it.

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