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Do you love being around children, teaching them how to do all manner of things? If you do then you can earn a fairly good income from this passion. There are many avenues to cash in on this passion. The only problem is which one to choose. Better yet you could operate more than one business and have multiple streams of income.List all your talents and skills. It could be in the arts, crafts, sport
Pothole Pictures: Normally this name wouldn't create a positive image for a movie theater. But in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, where glacial potholes in the Deerfield River running through the village are a cherished part of the landscape, the name works well.When naming a business whose geographical reach and clientele are mainly local, you can use nicknames, regional or city lore, local in-jok
If innovation is a primary function of a business, what happens to your ability to innovate when new initiatives get torpedoed with...
· That will never work.
· It can't be done.
· That's not how we do things.
· If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If innovation is vital, how do we drive out the naysayers? Or, if we got rid of all our naysayers, who would be left to do the work?
It may help if we understand that negative attitudes are inherent to the human condition. For parents to effectively discipline their children, repeated use the word "NO" is essential. The result is that often a child's first words are not "Mommy" or "Daddy", but "NO". Then there's those nursery rhymes. Jack and Jill went to fetch some water and what happened to poor Jack? Little Miss Muffit introduced children to arachnophobia and Humpty Dumpty went to pieces. With all that negative exposure in those formative wonder years, it's a wonder that anyone could develop a desire for risk taking required for innovation. If our childhood co
Golf tournaments have become a very popular way for charity to raise money. Probably the number one reason why most companies support a tournament is an affinity for the cause. But in addition to supporting a worthy cause, golf tournament sponsorship represents an opportunity for effective advertising. This article contains some anecdotal evidence to support this theory.At a golf tournament a while
· That will never work.
· It can't be done.
· That's not how we do things.
· If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If innovation is vital, how do we drive out the naysayers? Or, if we got rid of all our naysayers, who would be left to do the work?
It may help if we understand that negative attitudes are inherent to the human condition. For parents to effectively discipline their children, repeated use the word "NO" is essential. The result is that often a child's first words are not "Mommy" or "Daddy", but "NO". Then there's those nursery rhymes. Jack and Jill went to fetch some water and what happened to poor Jack? Little Miss Muffit introduced children to arachnophobia and Humpty Dumpty went to pieces. With all that negative exposure in those formative wonder years, it's a wonder that anyone could develop a desire for risk taking required for innovation. If our childhood c
Companies of all sizes have long used incentive and recognition programs to reward and motivate employees and customers – often using traditional awards such as gift certificates, pre-paid credit cards, merchandise or travel. Today, innovative companies are eschewing these impersonal gift programs and instead offering employees memorable experience rewards – such as hang gliding, a class with a master che
· If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If innovation is vital, how do we drive out the naysayers? Or, if we got rid of all our naysayers, who would be left to do the work?
It may help if we understand that negative attitudes are inherent to the human condition. For parents to effectively discipline their children, repeated use the word "NO" is essential. The result is that often a child's first words are not "Mommy" or "Daddy", but "NO". Then there's those nursery rhymes. Jack and Jill went to fetch some water and what happened to poor Jack? Little Miss Muffit introduced children to arachnophobia and Humpty Dumpty went to pieces. With all that negative exposure in those formative wonder years, it's a wonder that anyone could develop a desire for risk taking required for innovation. If our childhood c
It all started a couple of weeks ago when a friend asked me if I could scan and print some of her slides. No problem, I said.Boy, was I mistaken....As it turns out, I seldom use my scanner for slides. And no matter how many different 'Kathy' techniques I tried to get it to work, nothing. I even resorted to reading the online manual (what was I thinking?). Still didn't work.After s
Benjamin Franklin is attributed as the first person who said, “Time is money.” Well, that was over 200 years ago and you know, for Service Managers, it couldn’t be any more true today than it was back then. That is the essence of what Service Managers do everyday. They turn a technician’s time into labor revenue. For a service department to be profitable they have to turn the time paid to technicians
Is it possible to drive innovation in the face of negativity? How do managers overcome negative attitudes inherent in any organization? Why are some organizations so much more innovative than others? Is there hope for the laggards?
"The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. "- William James, the father of American Psychology
Attitudes can be changed, but it must be a conscious attempt. Unless you make that attempt, because of that negative influence during the early stages of your life, your basic thought processes tend to be in terms of the negative - of what you can't do as opposed to what you CAN do.
"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." - Henry Ford
When your naysayers utter those dreaded words: That will never work, are they right? What happens to innovation?
- Are your managers committed and skilled in driving positive change?
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