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Chet
28. March 2012 08:45
"A strong culture driven by a handful of rules (core values) makes leading people much easier, reduces the need for stacks of policies and procedures, gives everyone a foundation from which to make tough decisions, and generally brings simplicity and clarity to many of these "people" systems within a firm."
My company's Core Values:
Attentive Discovery - the products and services we have to sell are focused on our clients' needs and goals, not our own pre-determined understanding of what they want.
Loyal Partnerships- Long term and mutually beneficial relationships with our clients are critical to the success of our business model.
Economic Value - We provide solutions that meet the needs of our clients and become sound financial investments for them.
Equipping and Empowering Relationships - We look for opportunities to help amplify the strengths of those we server: our clients, staff, management, and community.
Techniques for bringing your core va...
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Chet
7. March 2012 08:52
Small Biz Owners, I'm curious... if you use blogging to market your business but also love to blog / journal on the web, do you create two separate blogs, or somehow interweave them?
Last night I spent some good time in front of the TV working on some marketing brainstorming that found its way into some marketing goal planning and obstacle discovering.
My life feels like a complex interwoven web of tech, business, youth ministry and mentoring, and the occasional post about butchering chickens. It's hard to tell where "I" end and "C2IT" begins. Do I keep my personal posts about goals and dreams separate from what I'm learning about the next thing in tech or how to build an e-commerce site that works for the small scale manufacturer? Or do I somehow interweave them, cut something out, or what?
I love to write. I love to share what other people have written. But the click-it-and-forget-it type of sharing to Facebook and Twitter seems to leave out the "permanence" factor that I like a...
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Chet
1. March 2012 07:38
I sat down with a friend that I have issues with yesterday afternoon. Yeah, issues. Got anyone like that in your life? Someone you love and care for deep down inside, but can't seem to get along with because of personality differences, orientations of the heart, or simply a difference in opinion over the best shade of blue? Yeah, I've got those kind of people in my life, too. The kind you want to fight for, but in the process of fighting for, often feel like you're fighting against. It's hard to deal with conflict in these relationships, or even to maintain them, but in facing the conflict, I've found both perspective and common ground almost every time.
We got to talking about responsibility, empowerment, and authority. As we were doing so, I remembered something I heard a ways back somewhere about turning the organizational chart upside down. In most organizations, be it a business, committee, church, or even a family, power and authority start at the top and drift downward, li...
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Chet
3. February 2012 08:24
Today on the Daily Audio Bible we read Exodus 18. There are many stories I enjoy revisiting in our yearly revolution through the word, but this one has become both special and a continual challenge to me.
Here's the story that always connects with me:
12 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses' father-in-law in God's presence. 13 The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and they stood around Moses from morning until evening. 14 When Moses' father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, "What is this thing you're doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?"
15 Moses replied to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God. 16 Whenever they have a dispute, it comes to me, and I make a decision between one man and another. I teach [them] ...
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Chet
28. September 2011 12:16
I went to my first conference with a group of REMC / Electric Co-Op's from around the country last week. We were a "vendor" at the meeting so had the chance to set up a little table, meet some other vendors serving this industry, and talk to a wide variety of people from the REMC industry. I learned a number of things, and wanted to get them down here before I lose this sheet of paper. I may come back to this and embellish it later, but these are key things that I can do better at (or keep doing) the next time we go to a conference of any sort. Most of these are in the order of their occurance, or just randomly inserted because I remembered them.
It was a good idea to come as early as we did. We had our choice of tables, and also had easily access to electricity. Some other vendors that came later did not have any access to electric.
There was a wide variety of booth styles. Some people had 8 foot tall setups with great marketing slogans and images, others had a table full of too...
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