Archive for February 2017

“Under New Management” is a good sign to see, right? – SCN Encourager

Sometimes I’m not so sure. Usually something else was the problem. The location. The menu. The parking. The product. The employees. But since it’s “the management” who ‘s at the top, I guess rolling an “out with the old and in with the new” strategy can’t hurt. And this actually worked great for Intel awhile back… in a way. Most…

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How can you tell when a recommended strategy will really work? – SCN Encourager

Just remember why the chicken crossed the road. Take a look from “the other side.” Yesterday I wrote about one of our major self-induced stressors. And I hauled out some unnamed (er, uncompensated) experts to help us deal with it. Apparently it’s common for us to believe that by shoehorning way-too-many items onto our calendars, we can have it…

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Is the popular “pursue your passion” directive over-rated? – SCN Encourager

Is your inner passion really the key motivator? Tough questions, for sure. It’s too bad I’ve got to make my response speedy-kwik. On the sly even. Because if Cindy found out I was delving into the topic of feelings, desires, and passions… the teasing around here would be non-stop. Merciless. But Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox said something quite interesting about pursuit of…

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Are people like me placing Amazon’s rapid growth at risk? – SCN Encourager

But I wonder if founder Jeff Bezos has even noticed. Probably not. I can’t imagine the 3rd richest man in the world keeping track of every knucklehead. So that takes me off his radar. For now. But still… I’m impressed. Did did you catch this piece of financial news? Amazon now has a market value greater than Walmart, Target, Best Buy,…

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The secret to getting a response to your email – SCN Encourager

Replies? Forget about replies. I’d be happy to just get my emails read! But apparently – for everyone else in the world – the bigger problem is “not getting replies” to email messages. Oh well, shows you what I know. I just hope they know what they’re wishing for. Fortunately, after studying more than 350,000 emails and…

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