Students are going back to school this week here. Early Childhood teachers are getting the last bulletin board put up. Parents are browsing through aisles of school supplies. There is a fresh breeze of fall discernible, as we launch into heavy traffic. Here are my top 5 organizational tips. 1. Calendar! This is your best…
1. Post evacuation procedures. Be able to leave in 5 minutes, with everything you need and for sure not leaving any child behind. Test this thoroughly. 2. Have a plan for sheltering in place and evacuating and test them. 3. Be sure parents know your plan. 4. Be sure that all the children can tell…
Membership recruitment is of course a primary interest in all voluntary associations. Trade associations are no different. If you read books and go to seminars for trade associations and non-profits you would think that membership recruitment is conducted by tracking, that is, carefully recording statistics of visitor and new member activity. This is a bit…
Giving Teeth to the Lion. Dan Rockwall, the Leadership Freak often gives thought provoking posts. His list here is a good one for the functioning of a team. However, is this the list you would want to see as a customer? a citizen? Is honesty included in transparency? Is doing right? Caring for the wider…
Customer service SHOULD be everyone’s business. Few think it is any business of theirs. Therefore — the company who has people to understand, will inevitably rise to the top. Example: check Jetblu’s recent stock price. Get it?
Often wrong answers circulate in our culture, such as “good guys never win” and “no good deed goes unpunished.” These may seem true upon quick observation. Over time, however, the only small businesses that I have seen both prosper and last have been businesses that offered a genuine service or product with service that tended…
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“The meaning of the word “character” changes. It is used less to describe traits like selflessness, generosity, self-sacrifice, and other quality that sometimes make worldly success less likely. It is instead used to describe traits like self-control, grit resilience, and tenacity, quality that make worldly success more likely. ” David Brooks, The Road to Character…
There is substance in this book – and depth. Yet the reading is delightful. Of course I knew David Brooks from NBR’s NewsHour pundit section. Of course I knew he also wrote. I now have a much greater appreciation of the work of this nuanced thinker. Today when mature men walk down my favored block…
Top Ten Tips 1. There is no such thing as multi-tasking, there is only attention switching. 2. Disrupting attention leads to lower productivity. 3. Worrying about performance leads to mess-ups. An athlete, for instance, knows that best performance comes from automatic, not thought-through action. 4. One may reduce the 10,00 hours dramatically by using attention…