In the last few weeks I have delegated my decision making for the dispatching of our driver to Gene and Liz to take care of each day. I made a new process for the delivery driver on how and when the deliveries will be made.
“Assume a virtue, though you have it not.” Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Act 3 Scene 4
The Hard Work of Selling
Selling is hard work. It is one of […]
We live in a world that is conspiring to reduce everything you do to a commodity status. If they win, they dictate the price you are paid for your products and services. If they win, your margins will slip to unsustainable low levels.
“If you do what you have always done, you will get the results you have always gotten.” Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result - True or False?
Numbers, metrics, and statistics are the language of management; we all speak in terms of numbers. We use numbers to help us understand our world. The weakness of numbers is that they are not self-defining.
In 1980 the large truck dealership I was working in had taken out a $2.1 million, 8% mortgage to build a new facility on Columbia Blvd. in Portland.
Many of the weekly Turbochargers you read are the stories of engaged leaders in Turbo’s Leadership Development Labs. These stories can be funny, and are always informative and inspiring.
My 'pearl' (the person I chose, at session 2 of the LDL, to improve my relationship with) is Carly.
Yesterday as I was leaving a management team training session for DSU down on Swan Island, Rod, the Body Shop manager, stopped me and said he had something exciting happen in the Shop just before the Fourth of July holiday.
I had been working on the same project for over a year, and every month or so, the general contractor would issue a safety award to one of the subs that had performed above all others with their safety performance.
Larry W. Dennis, Sr. President,
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