Being a Victim is Easy… It Doesn’t Require Any Work (One of the 83 quick and practical life & work lessons from Sh*t Sandwich: Quick & Practical Success Lessons for Practically Anyone.) You’re a Victim Because of Shit Sandwiches Let’s level set for a moment: If you avoid shit sandwiches you will just grow up […]
Life Definitely Ain’t Fair (One of the 83 quick and practical life & work lessons from Sh*t Sandwich: Quick & Practical Success Lessons for Practically Anyone.) Shit Sandwich Lessons for You Did you really think the last lesson was for you to share with 1st graders? What are you trying to do, scar them […]
Life Isn’t Fair (One of the 83 quick and practical life & work lessons from Sh*t Sandwich: Quick & Practical Success Lessons for Practically Anyone.) Shit Sandwich Lessons for 1st Graders Public schools have abdicated any responsibility in what I believe should be their primary function: Molding children into adults who can function well in […]
Really? Everyone? (One of the 83 quick and practical life & work lessons from Sh*t Sandwich: Quick & Practical Success Lessons for Practically Anyone.) Win or Lose; Everyone Eats a Shit Sandwich In what must be some odd (and successful in reaching its dubious goals) experiment intended to create ultra-fragile adults, America has been keeping […]
What’s a Shit Sandwich? (One of the 83 quick and practical life & work lessons from Sh*t Sandwich: Quick & Practical Success Lessons for Practically Anyone.) Shit Sandwich? Is That Served With Or Without Mayo? When you want something worth having, it’s not usually just sitting there for you to grab, right? More often than […]
Wanna Sell 30+? Learn to Drive the Up Bus! Will McGinnis from vAuto posted the picture above on LinkedIn this week showing an unidentified Colorado Ford dealership with six salespeople sitting out front waiting on the Up Bus… in the middle of the day… on a Monday! Maybe the best part about the photograph was […]
Power Off to Power On! It’s time to bring innovation and creative brilliance back to your company! (Yes, this article is long… and the fact that many will not be able to read it in its entirety in one sitting will precisely prove my point.) There was a time – before smartphones – when people […]
What being late says about you (One of the 83 quick and practical life & work lessons from Sh*t Sandwich: Quick & Practical Success Lessons for Practically Anyone.) 5 Minutes Early is 10 Minutes Late Packers’ Coach Vice Lombardi is famously quoted as saying that “If you are five minutes early, you are already ten […]
There’s an SOS message being broadcast from parents and employers that seems to be getting louder every day: SAVE OUR SNOWFLAKES! Snowflakes, for the uninitiated, is a term thrown about by members of both major political parties in America to describe humans on the other side of the political extreme who seem easily offended. […]
Let me start this post by stating unequivocally that I am big fan of online service scheduling applications for car dealers. When set up correctly, these little tools can save you and your customers the headaches and hassles of numerous service phone calls. When set up correctly. Without getting into the weeds, suffice it […]
NEWSFLASH: Consumers are tired of wasting 3-5 hours of their lives buying a car. The average prospect today has done more than 19 hours of research before they ever set foot on your lot; so they know what they want to buy, they just don’t want to spend an entire day buying it from […]
5 Simple Rules… for Eliminating Skating Forever If the only place you’ve ever worked is for one of America’s car dealerships, then you may not be aware that other industries don’t reward those who steal from their coworkers. Only dealership employees enjoy the added perk of being rewarded for cheating each other at will. We […]
Have you ever wondered why some businesses – even after being alerted to oncoming, meaningful risks and threats – never seem to change direction? Or why the managers in these institutions seem content with the same old-same old despite instructions from above to adapt or die? Often, the obstacles to making real changes (especially […]
Time Management Blogwatch – December 2008 For what it’s worth, we cobbled together the best of the time management blog posts and articles from this past month of procrastination fascination. Lest you think we’re kidding about the drivel that fills the time management blogs, imagine reading the thousands of posts we rejected including one that […]
Time Management Tools That Work – No Such Thing If you’re a regular reader to this blog, you know we don’t put much stock in time management tips, tricks or techniques. We believe, like Stephen Covey, that you cannot manage time, you can only manage self. Any attempts, in fact, to manage time are just […]
Time Management – The Fruitless Effort of Trying to Manage Something that is Unmanageable The Time Management Blogosphere has not taken a break in advance of the holiday season; and they continue to deliver much of the same drivel that is common with Internet postings on managing time. As any marginal leader knows, you cannot […]
Time Management’s Greatest Tool Ever The Internet (especially the blogosphere) is filled with advice extolling every flavor of tip and trick designed to help you manage your time better. New managers are especially vulnerable to the lure of something easy that can help them squeeze more hours out of every day. The truth is […]
Time Management – Words of Wisdom from the Time Management Bloggers As we’ve written before, the Time Management blogs are often the most active and ineffective bloggers around. They generally post lots of Time Management tips and tricks that are worthless to real leaders who want to be more effective. Time Management, as our […]
Time Management Blogwatch – September 15, 2008 We not only had a pretty good week on the time management blogs (as you’ll note by our selections below), but we also read one of the better time management books ever written. While not the best time management book ever (that crown still rests with Stephen […]
Time Management Blogwatch The Time Management blogs continue to be a mixed bag. Some decent advice, coupled with silly time management tips and tricks. We sorted through the chaff of this week’s posts and we’re hopeful we gave you the wheat. (We are human, so we make a few misses now and then). […]