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Good Service Does Not Have to Cost Big Bucks

I think a lot about Customer Service because it is one very real way you can deliver better value to your Customer

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Why Do Some Succeed?

Why do some succeed, often spectacularly so, and others merely survive? What human trait is the best predictor of success? Which human

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PopCap: Full Disclosure, Complete Transparency: Basic Minimums of Trust

(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Markets, businesses, and relationships all flourish when trust exists. If I have to spend all my time

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Taking Calorie Counts With a Grain of Salt: Don’t Believe Everything You Read

Requiring restaurants, particularly chains, to put calorie counts beside each item is the latest skirmish in the battle against American obesity. But

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(3 of 3) Empowerment

Empowerment is a nice-sounding word that has been used a lot in recent decades. But what does it mean? Particularly in the

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Reality Please

A lot can go wrong when we measure ourselves against bogus standards, standards that cannot be met because they are not real.

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DNA Evidence Foolproof? NOT!

One of my pet peeves is our willingness to accept information offered up as solid fact without giving it a good smell

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PopCap: Perverse Incentives and Humans: Know Thy Adversary

(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) “Those of us who looked to the self-interest of the lending institutions to protect shareholder’s equity, myself

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To whom much is given, much is required

To whom much is given, much is required. Every now and then my attitude of gratitude strongly kicks in and I begin

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(2 of 3) Stephen R. Covey on Empowerment

Empowerment is the process of sharing knowledge, authority, and responsibility further down the organization than previously thought possible. The goal is to

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Rational Assessments of Risk

We humans are a funny lot. We voluntarily take on significant risk when we “think” we are in control and frequently shun

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The Inevitability of Adversity…and the Benefits Thereof

I work in multifamily real estate, university housing to be exact. Real estate, along with our entire economy, has fallen on pretty