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The Benefits of a Performance Culture (and How to Implement One)

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Foster says he learned a few things after the company’s first eight years of growth. A major lesson learned at Excel in the early days is the virtue of hard work. We were making a lot of cold calls, just pounding the phones, to try and convince people to work with us. Still, he kept his eyes on the prize—making Excel viable. “I

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My Theme for 2011: Decisive Productive Action - Productive & Organized

Stephanie LH Calahan

5 Steps to Meal Planning Success » My Theme for 2011: Decisive Productive Action Do you have a theme for 2011?    At the beginning of the year, I read a number of blog posts and articles from people that said they would pick anywhere from 1 to 5 words to focus their year. 

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. In its 2011 Oracle Customer Experience Impact Report , Harris Research found that 86 percent of U.S.

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How to Start Over

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In 2011 I was in Mexico at a bachelor party when I wrecked an ATV in the desert. It took two and a half years to recover from that brain injury, and that was probably the hardest fresh start I ever had because I had to learn how to reuse my mind. Often after a fresh start, you have to learn to coach yourself.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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She started her first company, PandoMedia, an investigative journalism site covering the technology industry, in 2011 when she was on maternity leave from her job as senior editor at TechCrunch. This article originally appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. And maybe to lead for a while.”

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How Happy Are You?

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Some time before I was a happy person, on Fourth of July weekend in 2011, I moved out of my home and first marriage—and then my laptop quit. For my own experiment, I used a fairly basic spreadsheet and phone alerts. What I learned by tracking my moods. This is a problem for a writer. How I tracked my happy moods. she’d say. “Oh,

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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Make it explicit that you want to learn everything you can about them in short order,” Gage says. Proof it works: Schaus’s profits grew by 15% from 2011 to 2012 as a result of her partnerships. About half the time, we pick up the phone and call companies we think will make good partners, and the other half of the time they approach us.

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