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The two critical questions to ask are: “Who is my customer?” and “What value am I adding?” Unfortunately, many workers cannot answer these questions. They tend to blindly do things, and develop bad habits of doing things over and over for no good reasons.

Bill Capodagli

Knowledge is the understanding of what, how and why we need to do something. Skill is applying that knowledge in a practical situation.
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Attitude Skills Understanding
Today, with social media, thousands of potential customers can learn about horrible service within hours, minutes or even seconds after it happens.
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Happen Horrible Minute Service Today
An idea becomes great when it becomes tangible.
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Become Ideas Tangible
Social media can work to a CEO’s advantage. Someone with a great product in a small town in the middle of nowhere can compete in the world marketplace.
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Media Middle Nowhere World
In 1962, Sam Walton changed the face of retailing with Wal-Mart. As we speak, Amazon is again changing the face of retail with on-line buying.
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Changing People Retail Speak Year
Walt’s major passion was to provide the finest in family entertainment. For the most part, for nearly a century, the Company has stayed true to that legacy, and has set the standard for the entire entertainment industry.
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Company Entertainment Entire Finest Standard
In today’s global economy, innovations and improvements to products and services are not only happening more rapidly than ever before in history, they are being communicated instantaneously. So, it’s “innovate or die”!
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Improvement Innovation Today
Walt Disney said everything he had ever accomplished was a result of Mickey Mouse. Mickey was Walt’s alter ego and he was originally modeled after Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp character. So without Chaplin, who knows what Mickey would have become!
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Character Ego Littles
There is an old Indian saying, “When legends die, dreams end. When dreams end, there is no more greatness.” Leaders like Walt Disney inspire their organizations to keep their legends and stories alive.
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Dream Greatness Organization
My mother’s work ethic, her attitude, and the way she treated each and every customer as if they were her best friend were better lessons than could be found in all the text books in the world.
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Attitude Book Mother
In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.
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Cost Long Running
The best ideas can come from anyone within an organization. Leaders must remember that if they want employees to embrace a new organizational “Dream” or strategy, they need to include them and seek their ideas. Creativity is NOT just for the R&D department.
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Creativity Dream Organization
Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.
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Failure Learn Success
The two greatest role models in my professional career were Walt Disney and Dr. Deming. Dr. Deming was the Father of Total Quality Management and the person who redefined quality for the entire world.
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Career Father Great Two
The key is to make sure you are doing the “right things” before you worry about doing things “right”.
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Keys Right Thing Worry
If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.
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Constitution Organization Paper

The two critical questions to ask are: “Who is my customer?” and “What value am I adding?” Unfortunately, many workers cannot answer these questions. They tend to blindly do things, and develop bad habits of doing things over and over for no good reasons.

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The two critical questions to ask are: “Who is my customer?” and “What value am I adding?” Unfortunately, many workers cannot answer these questions. They tend to blindly do things, and develop bad habits of doing things over and over for no good reasons.

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