The Power of One

 

Not everybody can be number one

YET

anybody can be number one.

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Jeannette Marshall
@optioneerjm
#CalgaryBlogger

NOTE:  above logo is owned by GOOGLE 

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Don’t treat customers dumb


If you have any APP or service, it is imperative you remove any team members who interact with customers that come off horribly with the people who give them a job (the customer), that includes everyone from the CEO to janitor.

Rinse the toxic culture of sexual harassment or bullying.

It doesn’t matter how far up the chain you are, you are directly negatively impacting your company when you turn a blind eye.

Worse, if you’re part of the problem.

There are telltale signs.




Good people leave

People with bad behaviour settle in and stay.

Pay attention to employees with accolades who leave.

If harassment or bullying exists, turnover is really high.

Bullying supervisors fire outright or push to the edge.

Look for increasing doctor mandated “stay at home” orders.

Customers who leave don’t tell you goodbye 

Like the Titanic, it may be a hairline fracture, to be misdiagnosed.

Listening to recorded interactions with customers violates your people’s rights.

If you know how to hire trustworthy, professional, talented folks you won’t need to spy on them to drum up mistakes.

If you value yourself above your customer, you will eventually will fail.

Arrogance has no place in business.

Don’t mix up arrogance for confidence.

I’ve seen several men hire cocky, arrogant little bastards.  Is that because they connect at a deeper level?

Men aren’t threatened by cocky, arrogant other men.

Women are threatened by confident, capable, committed other women.

If a woman is considered cocky, she’s out the door, especially if she’s opinionated with lots of ideas and leanings towards fixing.

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Things are starting to pick up and after 75 percent are fully vaccinated, will we be in Post Pandemic.

One of the first questions I ask in any interview is:

How was the position opened?

See, the job seeker can disguise craftily created questions that says tons more just as HR has done.

Your employees are your customers

Too many, misalign themselves.  Even CEOs are fired.  The reasons much different.







Good riddance 2020 :: Hhheeellllllllooooo 2021

 Make it a good one


As if 2020 was so horrible.  Well, it was. 

Let's see, the greatest pandemic to hit the world's human population, transmitted easily, this clever virus dominates the older 1918 one:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html

(Fact checking)

Innovation will thrive

Out of necessity another four-letter word: NEED

That was Steve Job's brilliance.  He looked at ordinary things that were common or accepted and wanted to create something that would solve a problem:  being able to carry around all your music, listen to the radio, podcasts, e-meetings from the palm of your hand, and a telephone to boot!

Down the road, was someone who imagined "the road ahead" and set about to fix some of the most beneficial needs.  Yep, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs emerged from the disasters during the 1980s.

Today, not knowing, strongly hunched that Jeff Bezoes was greatly influenced by their geniuses during his educational tenure at Princeton University, no less, during the 1980s.  That emphasizes my point!

Amazon.com/CEO
May 1996–

Overview

Description

Description

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American internet entrepreneur, industrialist, media proprietor, and investor. He is best known as the founder, CEO, and president of the multi-national technology company Amazon. Wikipedia
BornJanuary 12, 1964 (age 56 years), Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Height1.71 m
Net worthUS$184 billion (December 2020)
SpouseMacKenzie Scott (m. 1993–2019)


During the horrible recession of the 1980s emerged some significant technological changes.  To move from main frame computers that lived in climate and temperature controlled areas to a desktop computer.

Anyone who used a computer in the 1980s cursed Microsoft for launching new versions that drove consumers out of NEED, not necessity.  You had to be able to work on a computer.  Computers need to be able to communicate, then they are put on a network.

The biggest needs drive the greatest results.

The best innovators fix those problems.

The greatest innovators fix the problem with a better solution.  (idea, image, tech, education, science, medicine, business ......)

Some gifted with foresight, anticipate a need by understanding a certain industry which evolves around fulfilling a specific need.  Sounds mixed up.

How did Jeff Bezoes anticipate how important getting essential items, food, etc. delivered to consumers home?  Amazon has magically saved Christmas for folks isolating, quarantining or just keeping a low profile.  

We grandparents get it.  Something that skipped our kids' generation and beyond.  Flipping through a catalogue that magically appeared in the fall, for anyone to flip through and imagining one of everything or a game where you had to choose only one thing from a page!  Rich beyond imagination.

InstaCart gets it.  Uber Eats will likely outshine Uber drivers in short order.  Skip the Dishes has surged the popularity of just ordering in dinner.  Or lunch or the munchies.

Slow down and cherish what is important now.  Then go on to fix what needs fixing.  Innovatively perhaps.