Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 8, 2014

Several years ago we retained the services of a marketing consultant who gave us some terrific ideas for growing our business. And then he used a phrase to describe me that I cherish to this day: VELVET HAMMER I pride myself on speaking the truth to people, but I try to do it gently, to maintain the other person’s dignity and self-esteem.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Finally, it has forced me to think about and clearly articulate answers to the excellent questions that Maddy had developed. To explain this concept, Sinek has developed what he calls the “Golden Circle,”. 1) When developing, maintaining and growing my business, I have focused heavily on the ‘why’. What does that even mean?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2015

We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail. I actually developed a pre-sales model that facilitates a buyer’s change management process call Buying Facilitation®. But this is a much more efficient way to do this.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, the common belief today is that the best applications of AI and automation will be very much a joint affair, with humans doing what humans continue to do best, and technology doing what technology does best. Rather than a face-to-face consultation, for instance, they are done instead over telehealth platforms.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. The need to disseminate technology. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 1992. in 2013, compared to 2.5%

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Fast forward to the mid-to-late 1980s, when a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Daniel Jones, Daniel Roos, and James Womack , surveyed production systems at 90 automobile assembly plants in 17 countries. Figure 2 – Marking a piece of wood molding before cutting it to size.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology. Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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