Comments on: Give a Gem. Take a Gem.

By: Web Webster

Web Webster — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:22:03 +0000

1) The call you least want to make is probably the call that most needs making.
2) There’s “busy” and there’s “getting stuff done.” Know the difference.
3) Most times, the last person who knows you need to be fired is you.

By: Craig McGill

Craig McGill — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:24:51 +0000

Be honest and expect others not to be honest to you is a saying that will get you through a lot.

By: Stephen Koenigsberg

Stephen Koenigsberg — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:28:58 +0000

Attention to Detail.

Giving the client the feeling that no stone will remain unturned. It’s what consistently differentiates me from others. This applies mostly to work. At play, I think it pays to have an element of “flakyness”. The trick is to balance the two in your life.

By: Udai Jain

Udai Jain — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:12:47 +0000

Work Smart…Work Hard…take a break….relax, refresh and evaluate..Work Smart…Work Hard

By: Devasis Chattopadhyay

Devasis Chattopadhyay — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:00:41 +0000

I follow the following :

1. Play the game by your rule. Don’t get trapped in others’ rules. Be nimble-footed and change strategy to suit winning the point. Think constantly.

2. But never lie. Truth is the ultimate home-maker. If you are uncomfortable with the truth be silent but never lie.

3. Even if you are down, smile and be positive and be prepared to be a gracious loser rather than a miserable manager.

4. Be calm and things will come back to you.

By: Frank Feather ~ Business Futurist

Frank Feather ~ Business Futurist — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:26:26 +0000

“Only the future is manageable!”

This us because you cannot manage the past. It is over and done with. And you cannot manage the present, because it does not exist. It is but a fleeting nano-second of time as we constantly move into a brand new future. Hence we can only manage the future. That creates a conundrum. It means that management is about managing what hasn’t happened yet. Therefore we must forecast and anticipate what will happen, and act accordingly.

I also use another slogan:
“The future belongs to those who get there first!”

In other words, those who best anticipate and forecast the future, and then manage accordingly, will get to the future before the competition.

By: Jonathon Westenberg

Jonathon Westenberg — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:19:46 +0000

Treat every small job and every client with the same respect and consideration you would a major contract or company CEO.
If you’re hired to design a logo for $150 and a website for $4,000, make both clients feel like they are an important priority for your business!

By: Dave Maskin

Dave Maskin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:11:00 +0000

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again,

Treat ALL of your customers with open honesty about your product or service.
Treat ALL of your customers with respect.
You’ll feel better about yourself and you’ll see more business come back to you.

When I’m creating my wire names at a trade show or private party, I smile at everyone. Just be nice. How hard can it be?
Later,

Dave Maskin
http://www.WireNames.com
“a strand of wire is transformed into a work of art at your event.”

By: Commandeering the Conversation « libby started a blog

Commandeering the Conversation « libby started a blog — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:34:48 +0000

[...] week David Mullen asked people who read his blog to “share gems.” As I read the comments following the post, I noticed how many of them were less “business [...]

By: PRJack

PRJack — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:36:07 +0000

The ability to engage, while having the potential to be tremendously beneficial, can also be extremely damaging as well.

Just ask Apple (no, Steve didn’t have a heart attack… where did you hear that? CNN? And where did they get their info? Who??) or CBS and their ‘eyemobile for iPhone’ app for citizen journalists (’er, did you just say that people are using this app to upload porn and disguise it as news? well, that’s not our fault!’).

This is not to discount the notion that the sharing of info is good. Quite the contrary. It’s just that info just because it is being shared isn’t immediately ‘good’. And the more that larger info aggregators attempt to harness individuals as sources of info, without boundaries and/or discretion, the more likely inaccuracies will be passed on as truth before things can be reversed.