Organizational culture begins in HR. This means to hire for attitude and train for skill.
BILL CAPODAGLIAlways look for ways to improve even the “good show.”
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Vision without execution is like a plane without wings, or Dumbo without ears, it just won’t fly.
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Twenty years ago if you provided someone with horrible service, it may take weeks or even months for the word-of-mouth message to get out to 15-20 potential customers.
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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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People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.
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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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Always look for ways to improve even the “good show.”
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The role of any exceptional facilitator or consultant is to work themselves out of a job.
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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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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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The key is to make sure you are doing the “right things” before you worry about doing things “right”.
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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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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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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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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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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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