Book Recommendation From: Dan Beaulieu 6/7/18 Listen Up or Lose out: How to Avoid Miscommunication, Improve Relationships, and Get More Done Faster. By Robert Bolton and Dorothy Grover Bolton Copyright 2018 Amacon Price $ 19.95 Pages: 268 with index I love books about the virtue of listening! There can never be enough books about the […]
What’s Wrong With Just Sticking To The Plan?
It’s amazing how much can get done when you decide to stick with it Another year another strategic plan…or worse yet another month another strategic plan. Does this sound familiar to you? Well it does to me. The most difficult thing to do when you’re a strategic consultant like I am is to make sure […]
Random Acts Of Kindness
Getting caught doing the right thing Has this happened to you? Someone in front of you at the toll booth pays your toll? Gives you a good feeling doesn’t it? Or, you get your car serviced and the mechanic notices that your tires are low on air and takes the liberty to fill them […]
50 Reasons We Don’t Need Marketing And Sales
Here are some of the dumber things I have heard from people about marketing and sales: I think I’ll place one ad in a trade magazine do you think that will be worth the money? I sent out a hundred sales letters and only received ten responses and five orders. We decided to make this […]
Great Business Lessons From Television
I have always said that I am suspicious of anybody who does not eat meat or does not own a television. I am especially suspicious of those who say they don’t watch television. I am not sure what kind of brownie points they think they are getting for not watching TV or what they […]
Book Recommendation: Customer Service Training 101 Third Edition: Quick and Easy Techniques that Get Results
Book Recommendation From: Dan Beaulieu 6/7/18 Customer Service Training 101 Third Edition: Quick and Easy Techniques that Get Results By Renee Evenson Copyright 2018 Amacon Price $ 24.95 Pages: 228 with index An updated version of a timeless handbook When you get right down to it, it’s always about people and guess what? Customers are […]
To Win, You Have To Have Courage
The more I work with companies the more I realize that all this talk about having courage and not being afraid to do the right thing when it needs to be done is true. From when it’s time to hire someone, or to reprimand someone or yes, the worst one of all to fire some […]
PCB Designers Should Know How a PCB Is Built
Yes, I know I have said this before, but I hate the idea that some people consider the printed circuit board a commodity. That this electronic component is nothing more than a “green plastic card” a platform for the almighty components. Many, not all, designers, pride themselves on their strategic ignorance of the printed circuit […]
On Being A Leader
Do you ever sit back and wonder what kind of leader you are? Are the people who work for you inspired by you or are they there with you because you are the only game in town? Would they stay with you if another very similar company opened up across the street? Think about that, […]
More Dumb Stuff You Should Never Say!
There is never a shortage of dumb things people say. In fact, no matter what is going on in our business, good or bad, up or down, scary or comforting, there is always somebody somewhere who will say something dumb about something. And I’m not even talking about the current political atmosphere where a collection […]