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Not Labor Day…CUSTOMER Day!

View Comments September 3, 2010

I’ve always found it a bit ironic that the way we celebrate “Labor Day” here in the United States is by not laboring at all. We use it to mark the last big weekend of the summer…swimming pools have their last hurrah before closing, some cities have huge fireworks displays, we may eat or drink [...]

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Roger Clemens indictment…and the lessons for YOU and your business!

View Comments August 30, 2010
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What are we doing?

View Comments July 19, 2010

During my recent trip to Malaysia, I was asked by network television news there to comment on their country’s goal to become a “high income nation by 2020.” Every person I met knew of the national effort. They’ve become a mid-income country through hard work and careful planning. Now, they seek to join the ranks [...]

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Why Apple passing Microsoft is important to YOU…

View Comments May 27, 2010

The tech world and the financial world are all buzzing today about the same event: Apple’s market cap passed Microsoft’s yesterday. (Market cap is the sum when you take the price of a share of your stock times the number of outstanding shares. So, while Microsoft has higher revenue and more cash in the bank, [...]

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Sometimes, things aren’t as we assume…

May 20, 2010

Listening to a speaker — Kelly McDonald of McDonald Marketing — on diversity and cultural change at a meeting in San Antonio today… • The largest Hispanic nation in the world is Mexico. The second largest is the United States. More Hispanics here than Columbia…more than Honduras…more than Spain! • The city with the fastest [...]

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The first impression…

View Comments May 12, 2010

As I sit here on a United flight from Indy to Denver, my shoes are shined, I’m wearing my best dark suit, my shirt is pressed and I’m sporting a stylish tie. I’m doing my best to create a professional and powerful image, because, when I arrive I will be creating something very powerful – [...]

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A walk in the woods…

View Comments May 4, 2010

Since my wife signed me up to walk a half-marathon with her in seventeen days (but, who’s counting?) — along with my desire to get in better shape — I’m walking every morning. Usually about five miles…sometimes more, sometimes less. I’m very fortunate to have a beautiful path to walk…friendly neighborhood, through a protected wetlands, [...]

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Stumbling towards irrelevancy…

View Comments March 27, 2010

If I were to start a “National Talk-Show Hosts Association,” how high would the standards have to be to attract individuals already successful in the business to join? How compelling would the information and experience need to be so everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Jim Rome would feel they were missing out if they weren’t [...]

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One more on gurus…

View Comments March 9, 2010

After my post on “Intellectual Dishonesty” attacking the mentality of gurus was posted — and has received an amazing number of hits and comments — there is one more related point I have to vent. …and please excuse the very personal aspect of this story. My late wife, Sheri, was a true leader in the [...]

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What this year’s Oscar race can teach us about business…

View Comments February 28, 2010

***UPDATE: My favorite Senior Vice President of Marketing, Shelley Erwin — at McKain Performance Group, of course — just reminded me that many of our readers are on corporate servers blocked from accessing YouTube. Therefore, I’m adding a quick summary of what the video is all about… Since the early 1940′s, the folks behind the [...]

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