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Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.

Bill Capodagli

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
When values are deeply embedded within an organization, they seldom change.
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Embedded Organization Values
Innovate, don’t imitate. Set out to create a culture that is right for your organization, then work at making it happen.
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Culture Happens Organization
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
Vision without execution is like a plane without wings, or Dumbo without ears, it just won’t fly.
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Execution Vision Wings
Organizational culture begins in HR. This means to hire for attitude and train for skill.
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Attitude Mean Skills
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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Answers Habit Two
One of the reasons for The Walt Disney Company’s long- term success is really the first of Dr. Deming’s famous points, “create constancy of purpose.” In his professional career,
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Careers Long Passion
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
In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.
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Cost Long Running
In the best organizations, love is the real “pixie dust.”
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Dust Love Real
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
Always look for ways to improve even the “good show.”
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Looks Shows Way
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
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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Heart People Stories

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