Bathroom and Business?
Strange news of the day: Man charged in killing over toilet paper (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-02-22T142041Z_01_N21161543_RTRUKOC_0_US-KILLING.xml&archived=False)
Quote of the day: "What? oh sure, you can go first, I'll wait."
- Author
Hmm. While homicide is never a funny matter, the author cannot help but wonder what will go on the deceased's tombstone.
In further musings of the author, Harry Beckwith (bestselling business author, see below) has a few suggested tips for new business owners:
-"If I ran a competing firm, how would I beat ours?" : spot your weakness before too many other people do and work on it. You are losing some business.
- "If we were starting this business from scratch, what would we do differently?" : Ask this question whenever planning the next steps of your business. and finally, while not a question in itself;
- "Plans teach": Everything from assumptions to plans change constantly in the business world, and yet everybody still plans. Why? Because, he says, "the value of planning is not in the plan but in the planning." You learn a lot from the process of gathering data for your plan; also clients and prospects will react to your plan, and you can learn a lot from these reactions.
ref: "What clients love: A field guide to growing your business" by Harry Beckwith(http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=What+clients+love%3A+A+field+guide+to+growing+your+business&meta=)
Quote of the day: "What? oh sure, you can go first, I'll wait."
- Author
Hmm. While homicide is never a funny matter, the author cannot help but wonder what will go on the deceased's tombstone.
In further musings of the author, Harry Beckwith (bestselling business author, see below) has a few suggested tips for new business owners:
-"If I ran a competing firm, how would I beat ours?" : spot your weakness before too many other people do and work on it. You are losing some business.
- "If we were starting this business from scratch, what would we do differently?" : Ask this question whenever planning the next steps of your business. and finally, while not a question in itself;
- "Plans teach": Everything from assumptions to plans change constantly in the business world, and yet everybody still plans. Why? Because, he says, "the value of planning is not in the plan but in the planning." You learn a lot from the process of gathering data for your plan; also clients and prospects will react to your plan, and you can learn a lot from these reactions.
ref: "What clients love: A field guide to growing your business" by Harry Beckwith(http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=What+clients+love%3A+A+field+guide+to+growing+your+business&meta=)
posted by Tochi E. at 6:01 PM
1 Comments:
hahaha that's a hilarious story....i can totally relate....replace the toilet paper people it's not hard!!! check out the other bizarre stories on that site as well!
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