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Still making goals and resolutions? Why?

Strategy Driven

How did those resolutions and goals you made at the end of last year work out? Personally, I am against traditional resolutions and goals. Most resolutions and goals set for the New Year are never achieved. They’re set emotionally and they’re set without an understanding of the circumstances around the goal.

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Goal-Setting, Planning, and Testing: The Importance of Managing Your Lead-Generation Strategy

Strategy Driven

By setting goals, creating a plan to adopt new tactics, and testing the results, you can measure how the company’s investment of budget and time helps increase the number of leads and sales. Developing a Strategy and Setting Goals. Developing a good lead-generation strategy begins with setting goals on what you hope to achieve.

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The Big Picture of Business – Mentoring Guides Your Success

Strategy Driven

The mentor endorses the mentee, messages ways to approach issues, helps draw distinctions and paints pictures of success. The mentor requests pro-active changes of mentee, evaluates realism of goals and offers truths about path to success and shortcomings of mentee’s approaches. Long-term success must be earned.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Fine Art of Failure: Benefiting from Mistakes to Assure Success

Strategy Driven

Success and failure… it’s a matter of perspectives. Out of every 10 transactions in our lives, five will be unqualified successes. If approached responsibly, they will become successful. Two will either be successful or will fail, based strictly upon the person’s attitude. One will be a failure.

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4 Fundamentals of Creating Successful Customer Relationships

Strategy Driven

If businesses exist, as the father of Business Management Peter Drucker proposed, “to create and keep a customer,” then success is defined by the relationships you establish with your customers. Here are four fundamentals of creating successful relationships with customers and prospects: Give Undivided Attention. About the Author.

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Post words. Achieve big. Build success. Day-by-Day.

Strategy Driven

Based on last year’s success, this year I decided to create two four-word categories. Not ‘goals’ in the sense that you may be thinking about. Rather, intentions that I consciously and subconsciously work on every day to build success all year long. Instant success. Book value is not guaranteed.

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Preview Thursday: Intelligent Disobedience

Lead Change Blog

Many, if not most, orders to do the wrong thing concern meeting numerical quotas or goals. He argued against tying job performance ratings and monetary rewards to numerical goals. At this writing, the pressure to meet numerical performance goals is roiling the entire education profession.