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Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible. ↗

— Marcus Buckingham

#leadership #business

Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees who have the talent to listen and to teach, and then you must focus them toward simple emotional outcomes like partnership and advice. ... Identify a person's strenths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run. ↗

— Marcus Buckingham

#leadership #management #business

I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#kinsey-millhone #business

At the base level, it is about making connections and building relationships, but if you take the letters from networker out of the word COnNeCtworker, you are left with 4 letters. C. O. N. C. Victor, we actually talked about this at Carina’s the other day with Sheila. C. O. N. C. stands for Considering Others’ Needs Continually. ↗

— Michele Jennae

#connectworker #connectworking #networking #relationships #business

True wealth, success, and happiness can only be achieved by balancing our business life with the duty we have to our self and to our family. ↗

— Joseph C. Kunz Jr.

#duty #happiness #inspiration #life #success

Networking means the act of exchanging information with people who can help you professionally. ↗

— Michele Jennae

#networking #relationships #business

We worked like dogs, we ate like hogs, and we slept like logs. ↗

— Terry W. Sprouse

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My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how to get it. If not, that's their business. ↗

— Stefne Miller

#christian #god #inspirational #missionary #business

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

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The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve her family, or to serve the truth, but to serve the story. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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