Meetings – Most Are a Waste of Time Do this…Start making some notes right after the meetings you attend, and evaluate how effective they were. Did you really need the hour or two you spent? Did all the people present need to be there the entire time? Probably not. Lessons From Mr. Selfridge Remember the […]
Here’s A Great Way To Save Time! Track Expenses Online and Create an Easy to Use Report with Expensify I travel all the time. Once again, I am sure to make Marriott Platinum this year. So how do I keep up with all of the receipts and expense reports? This is a little off topic […]
Saturday was our last day – a few points worth noting from one of my talks: We have three major resources at our disposal: Time Money People Opportunity Time How do you plan your time and what threatens to rob you of it? Time management is a funny concept; can you really manage time? Time […]
When I drive by a restaurant with a line coming out into the parking lot, I may not stop and wait, but it occurs to me at that moment that I should try it – perhaps on a less popular day. The restaurant with no cars on Friday night at 7, is obviously not doing […]
There’s a common fault among many who sell…it goes like this: Several opportunities look good, and so you start focusing on them, and counting on them, no longer prospecting very much. It’s like you’ve somehow come over the hump and things look good, so you let up some. Then the truth kicks in. Not all […]
It’s time to get back to school…that means our kids are back on a busy, productive schedule, with goals and timelines. But before that can happen, my wife and I sit down to evaluate where we are and figure out where we are going. Soon activities, holidays, and school work will crowd our days, and […]
Great news! The 2010 teleseminar series has been posted online at http://www.stelzl.us/business_strategy_TeleS.asp – and I have some very steep discounts for people who would like to sign up for the year (10 highly focused, content rich sessions starting March 2010). I am also sending a FREE Data@Risk book to the first 10 people registered…discounts apply […]
I recently read a telling article in Harvard review. The author rightly points out that while the airlines are working hard to build loyalty through the point system, you don’t actually get anything for your business; save an exit row. That is unless you’ve managed to reach the very top of the pyramid. Today was […]
Be on time…I just returned from an event in Orlando, meeting with business owners of SMB and mid market focused solution providers in the software space. My trip went great until it was time to catch the shuttle back to the airport on Friday afternoon. I had purchased a round-trip ticket using the Mears shuttle […]
Thrashing is the term used to describe a degenerate situation on a computer where increasing resources are used to do a decreasing amount of work. In this situation the system is said to be thrashing. Usually it refers to two or more processes accessing a shared resource repeatedly such that serious system performance degradation occurs […]
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