10+ Lessons from Dads
This week’s Quick List is dedicated to Dads. You’ll find good management tips here. If reading it brings to mind any lessons you learned from your Dad – about ways to be a better manager, whether it’s managing yourself or resources or people or morale or productivity – will you share them with us?
Here are 10 great articles that include lessons from lots of different Dads. Read more
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Quote of the Week for Fathers Day
Here’s a quote that can help with morale, productivity and overall performance.
In November of 1995, there was a lot going on for me – personally and professionally. I can’t remember exactly what I said to Dad on the phone one night but a few days later, an envelope came in the mail. In it was a page from Better Homes and Gardens magazine, folded three times to show an article Read more
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Help! I’m stranded!
At age 16, it’s not unusual for a young adult in North Carolina to apply for and get a new job – as a driver.
It’s a very big job – opening up loads of opportunities. Plus challenges, responsibilities and potential problems.
My dad wanted to be sure his daughters understood these responsibilities. Most of all he worried about one of us getting stranded on the road (cell phones hadn’t been invented).
So in addition to the driving tests required by the state – we had to pass his test Read more
Happy Biro Day
Might seem like a silly celebration. But can you imagine how tough it would be without the biro?
If you missed sharing this celebration with your staff today – there is always Monday.
It’s all about the celebration – even something as small or as big as a Biro.
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Fitch Family Secrets
What better place to learn about best practices and secrets to success than a business that has lasted through two panics, two depressions, sixteen recessions and nineteen United States Presidents.
That’s what led me to visit Mac Fitch, the owner & President of Fitch Lumber Company, and ask the question, “What has enabled you to be in business for 104 years?”
His answer was lightning quick, “ Blind luck.”
Since we had that covered, I went on the next question. With Father’s Day a few weeks away, I hoped he would share some lessons learned from his father and grandfather – lessons that might help the rest of us encounter some of that “blind luck” in business. Read more
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Friday is Ball Point Pen Day
Imagine what it would be like to write this way.
Think what it would do to productivity and morale.
Actually – I don’t even want to think about that.
Instead – let’s celebrate the 68th year of having built-in ink. Read more
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10 Tips for Tough Times
This week’s Quick List* is a companion to our Quote of the Week which is:
Tough times never last; tough people do.
But besides knowing that tough times aren’t going to last forever…what else can we do?
How are we going to get ourselves and others through the tough times?
Here are 10 quick tips – mostly from Dads.
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I love burned biscuits now & then
Here is a lovely story sent to me by longtime Business Class reader, Aida Cancel who is Director of Regulatory and Quality Assurance at Family Health International. Author of the story is unknown:
When I was a kid, my Mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. She placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned biscuits in front of my Dad. I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed. Read more
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Chocolate Ice Cream Day
June 7 is National Chocolate Ice Cream Day.
Have fun with this once-a-year way to celebrate with staff, colleagues, clients and customers. The investment is small. The payoff may be priceless.
For more on Just-for-June opportunities:
10 Morale & Productivity Boosts for June
10 Marketing Opportunities Just for June
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