Posted on April 5, 2007
How many times are we told everday that something cannot or should not be done? When we ask if one of our products has a certain feature we accept “no” as an answer. When we bring up an idea, we are told that “it will not work”. Tomorrow at work, when you are told NO, …
Posted on April 4, 2007
This week’s video post is a clip from my 2006 Likeability Factor Seminar produced at Prince’s Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis. In this video, I share the genesis of my thinking on emotional talent/intelligence/value. Enjoy The Mr Marcus Story: Email subscribers/feed readers, go here or cut and copy this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8L72M1L7KM Have you brushed up on …
Posted on March 30, 2007
Quick dummy check in bizlife: If you work at a company that has customer support, call the number. Count the rings. If you work in retail, and its possible, go be a mystery shopper. If you sell a service, buy it and consume it. Everyone needs to do this often. I just visited my Ebay …
Posted on March 26, 2007
The one great thing about writing a book, it accelerates your reading. Besides the poring over thousands of pages of facts and figures, I read books to feed theory. You have to have a theory and it has to be solid. Nothing really changes but the circumstances and the context. So, I go back and …
Posted on March 20, 2007
Many of us live most of our business life in a 90 day box. Others are lucky enough to live on a calendar year basis. I’ve worked in one sales organization that was fanatically driven by the weekly total. This goes back a few years, but I can remember it well: Three bad weeks and …
Posted on March 15, 2007
In his book, Never Eat Alone, master networker Keith Ferrazi talks about the value of keeping in touch with your network via pings. What he means is that you need to reach out to all of your network nodes on a consistent basis to keep your network alive and well. I’ve found that a periodic …
Posted on March 14, 2007
One of the best business decision of my life was to buy timsanders.com back in 1999. Glad I did. There are many Tim Sanders in the world, but I own my name dot com. I own my advice blog’s natural name (Sanders Says) dot com too. Last year, Jacqueline and I cofounded Deeper Media. I …
Posted on February 27, 2007
When I was leadership coach at Yahoo!, I often began manager orientation with the following saying: “You will accomplish more in the next two months, developing a sincere interest in two people, than you will accomplish in the next two years — trying to get two people interested in you.” (Adapted from Dale Carnegie). This …
Posted on February 19, 2007
Do you have any regrettable business relationships? You know, the up and down type of relationship that you wish was better? Maybe it is a Customer who is beating you up over a string of delivery issues (many outside of your control). Maybe it is a colleague that you are going back and forth with …
Posted on February 16, 2007
Some of your biggest business breakthroughs happen when you are in the shower. I’ve experienced this and I know you have too. Just a few moments ago, I had a big breakthrough in the shower today. A little solution to a little problem related to a HUGE project in my life. Why? It’s chemicals. When …
