About Jack Deal
 Jack Deal Country: United States Member Since: 27 Jul 2007 Total Live Articles: 98 ( Total Views 579 ) 
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1. The Knowledge and Ideas Paradox or If It's Contrarian It Might Actually Work
In which we demonstrate the old adage it is better to give than to receive. In the end, it's all about me.... |
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2. How Data Mining and Internal Marketing Can Boost Your Sales
Getting good data on your better prospects allows you to market directly to them. What else do you want?... |
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3. Corporate Culture: A Tale of Two Contrasting Companies
Is culture it's own reward? In which we see two companies the same size in the same industry go down very different cultural paths.... |
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4. Customer Complaints or It's Not Just the Whine and Please Anymore
May we have a little more whine with that cheese, ma'am? Why are the worst complainers all jerks?... |
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5. Workplace Humor or When Was the Last Time You Had Fun at Work?
Humor is life; humor is fun. Why shouldn't your company be alive and funny?... |
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6. Is Fast Growth Always Better than Slow Growth?
Growth is what it's all about or is it?... |
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7. Yes, But Am I Happy?
Since we spend the best years of our lives working, shouldn't we do what we want to do?... |
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8. The Mission Statement Revisited or This Time It's All About Us
There is no fool like the fool that has a goofy mission statement hanging on their wall.... |
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9. It's a Pig Thing: My Very Strange and Ongoing Relationship with Pigs
A pig is a pig whether free range or otherwise. Bonding with a pig is like bonding with barbecue.... |
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10. Continuous Recruitment or Why You Should Always Be Accepting Applications
Continuous recruitment is a valuable recruiting tool that improves overall recruiting results. Always accepting applications is a good first step.... |
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11. Why Non-Dairy Creamer is the Greatest Marketing Coup of All Time
Non-dairy creamer proves that humans can fake themselves out with just about anything.... |
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12. Are Your Employees Good Enough to Beat Your Competition?
Are your people good enough? How do you know? What do you do once you know? Why should you care?... |
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13. Is There Life After Work or Is Work the Most Interesting Thing in My Life?
Do you live to work or work to live? A fragmented life is not only less productive but less meaningful and less fun.... |
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14. Customer Loyalty or Where Did All the Customers Go?
Whatever happened to the concept of customer loyalty?... |
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15. A Simple Matter of Trust or a Maya's Perception of Honesty
The Maya believe that little tests can provide great insight into one's character. Here we use the Maya test on a Maya...... |
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16. How to Get Free Food by Effectively Using the Halftime Exit Strategy
By focusing on the silly needs of others we can often reap unexpected benefits.... |
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17. Moss Landing, California: From Toxic Fish to Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary
As the fishing industry has committed suicide the California coastal town of Moss Landing has managed to convert from blue collar fish to white collar research. Rusty pickups have been replaced by Audis and Volvos.... |
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18. 'The Dating Manual for Old Marrieds' is a Cognitive Behavioral Engineering Helpdesk
Old married couples are now going out on dates in order to put some excitement back in their marriage. Just how this is role played seems to be key to a successful cogntitive behavioral outcome.... |
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19. The Two Marble Stress Reduction Therapy Plan or 'What Me Worry'?
Chinese worry balls work but neuroscientists don't know why. Marbles are much more portable and have been shown to be just as effective.... |
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20. National Health Care Reform Will Determine the Next President of the United States
Universal health care will be the swing vote in the upcoming Presidential election in November.... |
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21. Sometimes One Has To Stay Focused, Take a Deep Breath and Just Jump In...
Nothing ventured,nothing gained or fear of failure?... |
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22. New Hybrid Web Based Business Models are Scrapping Traditional Marketing Strategies
New hybrid web based business models are results driven and are replacing the less profitable traditional business models.... |
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23. Why Bodacious, Internally Generated Self Promotion Beats Boring, Checklist Marketing
Checklist marketing is ineffective, so just who are you kidding when you fool yourself?... |
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24. How Jacinto Ek Moo Developed His Work Ethic
We are what we experience and what we mostly experience is work. Here Sr. Moo describes how he developed his work ethic.... |
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25. The Dynamics and Finer Points of Sleeping in a Yucatecan Hammock
When on the Yucatan peninsula, try sleeping in a locally made hammock.... |
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26. Where is that Mycroft Holmes When We Really Need Him?
Even Sherlock Holmes needed a good hint every now and then, right?... |
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27. My Secret Life as a Sheep Farmer or Never Say Never
Never, never say never...... |
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28. 'Maya Personality Honesty Tests': One Alternative to Traditional Recruiting?
Honesty is always a tough test. Here are a couple of simple ideas from my Maya friends that might make it a little easier.... |
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29. Two Little Kittens and the Big, Bad Rat: Nature's Universal Lessons Further Revealed
We can always learn from nature, especially the most basic lessons which we tend to forget.... |
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30. Does Your Search Engine Footprint 'Look' OK but 'Feel' Weak and Anemic?
By leaving a shallow search engine footprint, weak commercial websites allow the junk of cyberspace to hitch an unwelcome ride.... |
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31. 'Criminal' Treesitters Winning War of Nerves Against Weenie UCSC Administrators
Those that can, administer companies and businesses. Those that can't, adminsiter colleges and universities.... |
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32. Amoebic Dysentery: Nature's Foolproof Crash Diet Plan for the New Emaciated Look
We go to such crazy extremes to lose a little weight, why not try dysentery, a tried and true method?... |
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33. My Other House is a Jungle Hut or Maya Palapa Basics 101
A man's house may be his castle but the smart jungle dweller always builds a hut.... |
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34. Culture Shock: From Third World to First World in One Long Day
Part of the fun of travel is getting culture shock. If you don't let it get to your head, it can be fun. Of course it depends on where you go.... |
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35. Is Total Abstinence a Sure Indicator that Somebody Fell Way Off the Addictions Cliff?
Those in recovery constantly bore the world with their tales of woe and self effacement. Don't they have anything else to say?... |
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36. Offshore Outsourcing: If It Sounds Too Good to Be True, Try a Little Due Diligence
Outsourcing can be cheap but value is often another matter. A good scam will take your money and be a 100% loss.... |
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37. California Lovers or 'We Just Don't Want to Get Close if There is Any Way to Avoid It!'
The New Love means not having comittment and not having responsiblity. It also means not having much love.... |
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38. Cold Calling: Not Just for Fools, Crazies and Door to Door Salesmen Anymore
Cold calling is everyone's bane. But it needn't be. Getting out does wonders for the mind and body and sometimes even the pocketbook...... |
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39. What do You, Me and Mr. Paul K. Miller have in Common?
What will become of all your personal pictures and papers when you die? Will your family do like most and divide up what they want and Goodwill the rest?... |
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40. My Secret Life as an Art Dealer or the Origins of the Poor Getty's Museum of Fine Arts
Good art does not have to be expensive. But it does require work...... |
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41. My Secret Life as a Junk Man or My New Cognitive Behavioral Materialism Therapy
Wallow in your stuff to gradually wean yourself from it. After a while you won't want to go to the mall anymore.... |
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42. Increase Your Productivity by Shutting Off Your Phone
How can you produce if you are constantly interrupted?... |
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43. 'Don't Tread on Me' Snake Motto is Foundation for the Modern Free and Inquiring Mind
The U.S. at one point was so poor and desperate it's generals told the population to make whatever flag they felt was appropriate. The most widespread was the rattlesnake and the "Don't Tread on Me" flag.... |
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44. John C. Fremont: U.S. Senator, Governor, Military Officer, Bandit, Prisoner and Traitor?
John C. Fremont was many things including one of the founders of California.... |
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45. How to Keep Your Written Work from Being Copied and Plagiarized
To keep from being copied, make your content complex, unpredictable, and use a convoluted train of thought.... |
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46. Real Life Adventure is Not Limited to Exotic Places
Helen Keller said "Life is an adventure or it is nothing." Why would you settle for nothing?... |
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47. Can Nations, States, Regions and Communities Develop Their Own Personality?
We are from whence we come.... |
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48. Opposites Attract: Why Being Different Might Be the Path to Your True Love
If opposites attract then why do the dating services look for similarities and not differences?... |
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49. Why Nellie Ball and the Warriors are the NBA's Finest
Nellie got it going last season and the march continues. Can he go all the way?... |
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50. Streets and People Sense: What It Takes to Cross the Street and Get Along with Others
Something as simple as crossing the street safely requires a vast array of neural processes. Sometimes we only realize that when we see those struggle that don't have that ability.... |
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51. The Greed Gene: How Excessive Greed Can Bleed Your Business and Ruin Your Life
Buddhists believe greed is the primary obstacle to enlightenment. Greed can also be an obstacle to business success.... |
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52. Why Mavericks Surfer Darryl 'Flea' Virostko is the World's Best Athlete
Darryl 'Flea' Virostko surfs the Mavericks and the biggest waves in the world.... |
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53. Marilyn Monroe's Mysterious Moving Mole
We can never get enough of movie actress Marilyn Monroe , or so it seems. Did you even know Marilyn had a famous mole?... |
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54. Why Those Don Quixote Start-Ups are Great for Your Career, Creativity and Sanity
There is no better hands on business school than a start up. And for thrills they can't be beat. Why not do yourself a favor and try one?... |
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55. Why Google and Yahoo Foot Prints are Eliminating Everything but Your Business Card
What would happen if you threw out all your sales and marketing materials except for your business card? The answer might be worthy of some consideration.... |
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56. The Demos Year End 2008 Campaign Review: Obama Up, Clintons Tank, and John Out
Aren't we Democrats such a class act?... |
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57. Yes Virginia, There is an Allegorical, Metaphorical, and Culturally Neutered Santa Claus
Santa has adapted well to the 21st Century. Those that don't believe he exists don't even wish he did. How sad.... |
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58. I'd Rather Be an Ugly Mexican than an Unhappy, Stupid, Silly Argentinean
Argentine reporter Jorge Lafauci was recorded during a TV show saying that Mexicans are the ugliest and the only pretty ones are on TV. Lafauci upholds a longstanding tradition of Argentines making silly, stupid statments.... |
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59. Intelligent Design and Natural Intelligence Are Two Peas in the Same Old Pod
If it can't be tested and exists only on faith it is not science. Why not say 'it's not science' and move on?... |
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60. Say it Ain't So, Barry, but Deep Down We All Knew This Day Would Come...
Our hero Barry Bonds has been indicted for perjury concerning his denial at having taken performance enhancing steroids. All his fans can hope for is a quick resolution and back to playing baseball.... |
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61. The Male Manager and Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
Male managers are often reluctant to deal with PMS. There are no easy answers but gaining insight into the problem is a big first step.... |
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62. Populist Deception Fooling Latin America's Poor and USA's Gullible 'Intellectuals'
Latin America needs a solid left, not Populist windbags that promise the impossible. Populism has failed everywhere and there's no reason to expect any change.... |
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63. How a 'Look and Feel' Redesign Can Upgrade Your Stale Corporate Image
Does your marketing collateral project your desired 'look and feel' It should because with online clicking you and your online competitors are put side by side. What you project, shows.... |
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64. Boycott Chinese and Buy Mexican
Better to buy from friends and neighbors than from those that poison us and even their own.... |
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65. U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo Proves Smoking Dope and Politics Bad Mix
If a U.S. Congressman can actually state that all of Mexico is a drug cartel, then why shouldn't I be able to return the favor by making up stories about him doing drugs?... |
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66. UCSC Treesitting Protesters Barking Up Some Really, Really Big Redwood Trees
If your son or daughter were protesting 150 up on redwood tree limb should you demand they transfer to Texas A&M?... |
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67. How Your Collective Thinking is Destroying Your Mind, Career, Personal Life and Hippocampus
Those that think like sheep become sheep.... |
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68. 2008 Election Proving Once Again the USA is the Greatest Nation in the Entire Universe
Once again we prove our advanced democratic system is aces and helps us keep our status as the best nation in the Universe.... |
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69. Why the SF Forty Niners Miss Eddie Debartolo's Freewheelin' and Dealin'
For some of us, football is religion. When our team flops, we cry. But when our team is mismanaged, we take it personally.... |
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70. Latino Politicians, Intellectuals and Community Leaders Abandoning California Farmworker Children
Latino politicos, intellectuals and community leaders sit idley while Spanish speaking immigrant and citizen children to grow up not speaking English. As a result these children drop out of school and cannot participate in the educational and ecomonomic opportunities California has to offer. And not realize their individual potential...... |
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71. There is no Security with Shaking Ground, Mad Shoplifters and Thieving Families
We can never totally isolate ourselves from evil,risk, threat and bad things in general. Rather than worry about it we should get out and about and enjoy life and not be obsessed with creating a no risk environment. Besides, there is no such animal.... |
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72. Lessons in Life We Can Learn from Ugly Women with Big Tattoos
It's true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder but sometimes deflecting focus away from ugliness actually makes one relatively prettier.... |
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73. Welcome to California National Park!
When California runs out of water, we can make it into one heck of a national park. Don't forget to bring your water bottles...... |
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74. Why Radio, TV, Newspaper and Other Traditional Advertising is so Very Yesterday
The Return on Investment (ROI) for tradtional media marketing is going down. It is imperative that ownership and management take back control of their marketing initiatives.... |
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75. Go Ahead, I Dare Ya! Google My Name!
When I was a kid we used to dare, double dare and then double dog dare. Nobody googled.... |
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76. My Breast Sizes are Just Fine for Now, Thank You and Besides I'm a Man
Marketers are pure scum. Here is an instance of snake oil sleazebags trying to capitalize on citizen's patriotism.... |
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77. How Loneliness, Faulty Logic and Convenience Destroyed Three Super Brains
Even the smartest among us can veer off path and end up going down a path of utter stupidity.... |
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78. How to Use Your Company's Employee Manual as a Business Development Tool
A good Employee Manual can be your company's Human Resources in a box. Use it to grow.... |
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79. How to Prevent Minimal Employees from Destroying Your Business
Minimal employees are one of the primary reasons businesses fail. Don't let minimal employees destroy your company.... |
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80. A World War I Soldier's Photo Album: Gas, Guts and Eternal Glory?
World War I was the last war fought in the trenches. It was also the war of poison gas and inthinkable carnage shown in Grandpa's soldier's photo album. What did we learn?... |
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81. If We Can Think It, Do We Also Experience It?
Are we what we experience? The answer is 'probably so'...... |
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82. Business Development and the Measured Steps to Success
Successful companies go through the model, infrastructure, strategy and growth phases. Other companies don't.... |
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83. How to Turn a Third Party Informational Article into a Power Marketing Tool
Third party marketing informational articles present your company in a positive light. This under utilized multi-use tool is equally powerful in both print and digital media.... |
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84. The Business Meeting Revisited: Waste of Time or Key Strategic Tool?
The oft maligned business meeting is often ignored as a stategic management tool. Those that can do meetings well gain a competive advantage over that can't.... |
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85. Yes, Virginia, the World is Full of Jerks...
Jerks are everywhere and a diverse bunch at that. Why are jerks so irritating?... |
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86. Infrastructure and Economic Development
The relationship between infrastructure and economic development is not always obvious. This article examines the close relationship between the two and how infrastructure becomes the framework for economic development.... |
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87. Did Bad Management Cause the Murder of Madalyn Murray O'Hair?
If you treat your employees badly, watch out. Mad Madalyn Murray O'Hair pushed one employee a bit over the edge...... |
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88. The Interviewer's Perception or Who Gets Hired?
If you give the interviewer a bad impression,you may as well get up and walk out of the interview.... |
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89. The Business Analysis: Why Your Company's Future May Depend on It
A good business analysis can give a company a competitive edge by creating a blueprint for improvements.... |
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90. When in Doubt, Side with Skill
Nothing can replace skill when it comes to workplace productivity. The care and feeding of skilled employees can give your company a huge competitive advantage.... |
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91. Sensory Reduction and the Quest for Human Potential
Our poor heads are bombarded constantly with all sorts of outside stimuli. By cutting out this stimuli in a saltwater flotation tank some theorize we are returning to our natural caveman selves.... |
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92. The Five Million Dollar Day
Life's changes shift our priorities. In this true account, a man gets a $5,000,000 paycheck on the same day he learns he has terminal cancer.... |
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93. When Should You Not Rehire A Skilled Employee?
Rehiring a skilled employee can be a nightmare if you do not carefully consider all the benefits and problems. This article covers some of the do's and don'ts of rehiring skilled employees.... |
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94. Customer and Client Rapport: Why Should They Care About You?
Customers drive all the action. If your business can develop a relationship it can develop customer loyalty.... |
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95. When Those We Trust Disappoint Us
Usually trust is a two way street, but not always. Sometimes folks get so caught up in their own problems and greed that they behave badly. What should you do?... |
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96. The Exit Interview: Don't Let That Valuable Information Walk Out Your Door!
Departing employees through an exit interview provide an excellent way to find out more about your company but it requires discipline and focus. This article discusses exit interview basics.... |
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97. Three Good and True Rat Stories
We can never have too many good rat stories. By nature, rats elicit a human response that is both unpredictable and at times entertaining.... |
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98. Personal Balance and Superior Productivity
Those that produce and create the most tend to have lives that are balanced and not too far out of 'whack'. By determining what your own personal balance is, you can improve your workplace productivity.... |
