Relationships

Cross-Pollination

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There once was a farmer who grew
excellent corn, and every year he won the award for the best corn.

One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned
that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.

“How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your
neighbors when they are also entering corn in competition each year?” the
reporter asked.

“Why sir the wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and
swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn,
cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my […]

Audit Your Circle

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My restaurant was failing and I was
out of ideas on how to change it. That’s when a friend recommended I bring in a
Consultant to do an evaluation of the business.

Her biggest recommendation was to do an Audit of the Menu.
This consultant said we needed to delete at least 20% of the menu items. These
food selections were costing us time, money, and too much was going to waste.

I remember the push back some of our customers voiced over
this change but the results were instantaneous!

The consultant told us to do an […]

Audit Your Circle

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Anchors

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Anchor’s Aweigh is part of the Navy fight song that represents the call to bring up the Anchors and get going!

 

This should be your song to get you started for this New Year.

 

An Anchor was created to temporarily keep a ship stopped in one location, but it was never intended to be a bottom feeder as its purpose.

 

In the next two weeks, I want you to take inventory of your relationships and decide which ones are anchors. These are the ones that are helping you to stay in the same […]