Wanting to Help and Knowing How are Decidedly Different

When Nancy Pelosi was questioned about increasing tax rates and recent stock market highs she responded:
“Only the rich benefit from these record highs. Working Americans, welfare recipients, the unemployed and minorities are not sharing in these obscene record highs”.
“There is no question these windfall profits and income created by the Bush administration need to be […]

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Suggested Comments When You Are at a Loss for Words on an Employee Performance Evaluation

“Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.”
“This employee is really not so much of a ‘has-been’, but more of a definite ‘won’t be’.”
“Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.”
“When he opens his […]

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Are You Here for a Reason, a Season or a Lifetime?

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON . . . It is usually to meet a need you have expressed. […]

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Recruiting, Interviewing and Hiring

Inarguably, the identification, selection, recruitment and hiring of top employees is not only an eternal organizational imperative, but it is especially one of the two or three most important functions of the senior business leader.
Excellent strategic analysis and execution, together with outstanding functional / operational goal-setting and performance are sine qua nons of top […]

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Hancock Fabrics: Mismanagement . . . Right Here in the Mid-South?

Folks in the Mid-South who want to find an example of a grossly mis-managed enterprise might not have far to look.
Hancock Fabrics’ website (www.hancockfabrics.com) has a spot where you can search for goods up to 80% off. Wow! What a savings!
But Hancock Fabrics (HKF before it was bankrupt and de-listed, now seemingly bearing […]

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Quotations: The Future

There’s always an easy solution to every problem . . . neat, plausible . . . and wrong.
–H.L. Mencken
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The […]

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Guess the Date . . .

During the period since 1920, the emphasis in business shifted from production to distribution. At the same time, technological improvements were constantly going on in manufacturing, and apparently will continue to do so without any immediate prospect of abatement. Hence, we observe a tendency for production costs to decline and distribution costs to […]

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