Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
All successful companies do one thing very well…they do the obvious well. It’s very difficult for a customer to appreciate the special things a successful company does unless it meets their customer’s basic expectations (the obvious) well.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
The biggest things you accomplish in life are always done with and through others, and that makes your relationships very key to your own performance and achievements. The successful look past difficult circumstances in their key relationships to the longer-term value those relationships will provide.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
Just like companies, people have a brand…it’s what others think and feel about you. A strong positive brand is a promise of what (integrity & behaviours) they can expect from you. People with a strong personal brand influence others in positive ways before they even show up.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
Very often, it is the right question that can drive people to really think more broadly on a subject. Successful communicators understand this and follow the motto of “Questions before Statements”. Ask the question to expand the thinking, and then follow with the statement to fill in the gaps.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
A key factor in delegating is the quality of your people’s business judgement, and a good way test it is asking your people for the milestones and any issues on what you are asking them to accomplish. The quality of the milestones (& any issues) they provide help indicate their business judgement.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
A key factor in delegating is the quality of your people’s business judgement, and a good way test it is asking your people for the milestones and any issues on what you are asking them to accomplish. The quality of the milestones (& any issues) they provide help indicate their business judgement.
Jim Harris
The inevitable long-term rise of energy prices poses a serious risk to corporate profitability. A Deloitte study, released at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2009, showed that even modest 3.5 per cent year-over-year increases in energy and resource input costs could wipe out the profitability of a vast number of North American firms.
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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
There are many people who are great at influencing others “in the moment”. However, successful leaders do not just influence in the moment, but their words have a lasting influence…an influence that impacts their people’s behaviours long after the moment. It’s all about influencing beyond the moment.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
One thing is for sure, everyone is not the same. Therefore, differences are always there, and we need to respect our differences. Differences make life interesting, and if you respect the differences of others, you will be less frustrated by them too.
Jim Harris
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