Petey’s Blog

Excellent service givers pay attention to the person and situation at hand. They listen for things the client isn’t saying. — Linda Byars Swindling

Many people are increasing the number of social media channels that they utilize. This means spending more time and energy, and increases the importance of monitoring your success with each. A natural question becomes the role of your website in your overall social media strategy.

We’ve all heard the phrase…”give until it hurts”. Why should it have to hurt? Why not say instead…”give until it makes you feel good”?

All too often we spend enormous time, money and brainpower on creating a mission /vision statement with goals and tactics. We market the results as reflecting our culture. Presentations and letterheads bare our logos and statements as banners.

Kiplinger reports that: not only are women outpacing men in earning college degrees, they’re also starting more small businesses. The number of firms owned by women is growing 50% faster than the total number of small businesses.

‘Widow- Maker’ is the newest C-Level word to describe a position in an organization, so named because it defeats even the most capable executives (regardless of gender), as if it were predestined.

The eight bare essentials of the book should be tempting enough to want to read it in total:

He who has a why can endure any how. — Friedrich Neitzsche