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Ready to Quit
- January 31, 2019
- Posted by: Philip Struble
- Category: Uncategorized
No CommentsYour suspicions are telling you that one of your key employees is about ready to quit. What should you do?
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What Do You Do for a Living?
- January 28, 2019
- Posted by: Philip Struble
- Category: Uncategorized
Let’s suppose you are attending an evening event sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce. This is a networking event where you are to mingle and pass out business cards. During this event, someone will invariably approach you and ask, “So, what do you do for a living?” Are you ready with an answer?
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Vocational Coherence
- January 24, 2019
- Posted by: Philip Struble
- Category: Uncategorized
Do you have a job, a career, or a vocation? Unfortunately, most people tend to use these terms interchangeably. Understanding the differences in these three terms will help us define our future working life, and to better mentor those who work for us.
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Quality Time
- January 21, 2019
- Posted by: Philip Struble
- Category: Uncategorized
What is your most scarce resource? Most of us would answer “time.” It is time after all that that dictates most of our decisions. The things we can do, cannot do, and want to do are all driven by our ability to find the time to do them.
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Roses and Thorns
- January 17, 2019
- Posted by: Philip Struble
- Category: Uncategorized
We all have unique ways of looking at things in life, and each perspective provides a separate stream of experience in which we live and operate. We have the ability to manage our perspectives, and through managing them, we find two predominant issues to focus on: getting a correct perspective and keeping that perspective.
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Work Friendships
- January 14, 2019
- Posted by: Philip Struble
- Category: Uncategorized
Workplace friendships are almost always problematic. I concede that there are strong justifications for workplace friendships, but in our overzealous effort to portray our workplaces as happy, friendly, and as a place to belong, we de-emphasize and ignore the downsides of workplace friendships.
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Your Agenda
- January 10, 2019
- Posted by: Philip Struble
- Category: Uncategorized
One of the best pieces of business advice I have ever received was, “never go into a meeting without an agenda.” Following that advice, every meeting I am in charge of has a written agenda with copies for all in attendance.
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Take Some Risks
- January 7, 2019
- Posted by: Philip Struble
- Category: Uncategorized
How brave are you? If you’re an entrepreneur, you’re braver than most because risk-taking is part of the entrepreneur’s DNA. For the rest you, well…
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The Golden Rule
- January 3, 2019
- Posted by: Philip Struble
- Category: Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking about how to apply the Bible verse above, known to some as the Golden Rule, to our business world. Surely in a business climate that has an unfortunately low level of employee engagement, is dependent on customer satisfaction, and verbally strives for a high level of reputation, such a simple principle would have some lasting impact.