As promised, today I’m going to talk about situations I’ve seen in companies where employees were taken care of and where they werent’ and the consequences of those actions.
My first thought turns to a company I worked with some years ago where the employees were all treated as family.  No, everyone didn’t make as much [...]

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Yesterday I wrote about how a CEO of a small to medium sized business created a culture wherein they treated each other (and all those with whom they did business) as family.  I talked about loyalty and how the things this company did generated loyalty.  I don’t think I can leave this topic without sharing [...]

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My son had a baby the other day (actually it was his wife who had the baby, he just did the cheerleader thing.)  That night his wife called him to say they had received flowers and a teddy bear from someone she didn’t know.  It turns out it was from a company my son had [...]

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I got a call the other day from a business owner who had employees (apparently more than one) who had an “addiction,” as he put it, to texting.  They had their hands under their desks texting friends and family almost all day long.  He said it had even gotten to the point they were texting [...]

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The places I shop, I frequent regularly (the lumber yard, the hardware store, the sporting goods store, the atv store.)  What I’ve noticed is they all have something in common; when I enter, they call me by name.  Now, I’m not sure whether they do that because I’m in there all the time, or whether [...]

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You’ve heard the old saying, “You might win this battle, but you’re going to lose the war.”  It’s true.  Seldom does one battle turn the tide in the war.  You’ve got to be very careful which battles you fight and why.  A few days ago I talked about controlling your emotions.  No place is this [...]

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I recall a business I worked with many years ago.  The business was struggling to keep its head above water and we were pinching every penny until it gave up a nickel.  Then one day I got a call from a manager I had worked with before and who i knew to be one of [...]

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i was talking the other day to an acquaintance who had just taken his business under.  But that wasn’t the real problem.  In taking the business under, he had made some decisions that were borderline criminal and there was the possibility he would go to jail. Â
After explaining to me what had happened, which included [...]

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I remember a lesson I learned when I was first starting to rock- climb back in the sixties.  My buddy laid a 2 X 4 on the ground on it’s flat side and said, “Walk this 2 x 4 as fast as you can.”  Of course I walked it without incident and thought nothing of [...]

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Like you, I marvel at the stupid things people do.   (Sometimes I marvel at the stupid things I do, as well.)  As I watch others in the public eye, I think about the worst thing you can do is go off half-cocked.  You know what I’m talkng about.  Someone stands up with the air [...]

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