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July 15, 2014
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by Bob Meyer, Editor of BarterNews
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From the desk of Bob Meyer...
07/15/2014
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Summer Vacation Changes?
| A recent poll of adults age 18 and over
revealed the following: |
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Ages 18-49 |
50-Plus |
| Are you
planning a vacation this summer? |
| YES |
43% |
42% |
| NO |
56% |
54% |
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Do any of the following apply
to your travel plans because of cost? |
| Canceled/delayed
trip |
| |
13% |
10% |
| Stay closer to
home |
| |
26% |
23% |
| Take shorter trip |
| |
15% |
10% |
| Stay with
family/friends |
| |
23% |
21% |
| None of these |
| |
34% |
40% |
| |
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| Have your
vacation plans been affected by gasoline prices? |
| YES |
42% |
52% |
| NO |
57% |
57% |
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How To Deal With Meeting Killers
When it’s time for a meeting, most companies have them:
co-workers that hijack discussions, wander off topic, send texts,
disrupt decision-making or behave in other dysfunctional ways.
The five most common disrupters come under these categories:
The Dominator
Crime: greatly overestimates value
of his/her personal views
Modus operandi: disrupts discussion and
induces information overkill
Level: first degree nuisance
The Quiet Plotter
Crime: practices
passive-aggressive insubordination
Modus operandi: remains quiet
at meetings, later undermines bosses and decisions
Level: first
degree nuisance
The Naysayer
Crime:
premeditated negativity
Modus operandi: waits until consensus is
almost reached and retails meeting with major objections
Level:
first degree nuisance
The Rambler
Crime:
inflicts death by boredom
Modus operandi: takes discussions to
far-away places so people forget why they're there
Level: second
degree nuisance
The Jokester
Crime:
assault with a deadly punchline
Modus operandi: cracks jokes
(appropriate or not) and awaits response from others
Lever:
misdemeanor nuisance
Meetings are supposed to be a time of
creative problem-solving, where the best ideas emerge. Yet even some
of the best managers have a difficult time running them.
The following advice from executives, meeting planners and trainers,
for accomplishing productive meetings that’ll get more done include:
- Limit the number of meetings scheduled.
Set a clear
agenda.
- Impose a "no device" rule or schedule periodic tech breaks
for e-mail, texts and phone calls.
- Redirect people back to the agenda when they ramble or
digress.
- Draw out quiet people by asking them in advance for a
specific contribution.
- Do a "round robin" when appropriate, to allow everyone to
contribute.
- Ask early for objections to keep them from derailing
discussions later.
- Limit the length of slide presentations.
Interrupt people
who talk too long or talk to each other.Set an ending time for
the meeting and stick to it.
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Where's Your Company Headed?
Any time is a good time to look back over the past several months
(or year) to review and analyze what you did right. Or what you
missed out on. However, it's also energizing as well as necessary to
look into the future.
If you believe that markets and
margins will be the same in five years as they are now, you are
likely placing your company in jeopardy. Because no business or
industry can escape the rapid change we see all around us.
So take a moment and consider the following questions.
- Which customers will you serve in the future?
- What channels will you use to reach those future customers?
- Who will your competitors be in the months and years ahead?
- What will be your future competitive advantage?
- What skills or capabilities will make you unique in the
future?
- Where will your future margins come from?
- What will the new trends be in the future?
Although spotting future trends can be tricky, here are several
suggestions to help you.
- Read classified advertising and observe which firms are
hiring and what kinds of jobs are in short supply.
- Where are the long lines? Back orders?
What are people
reading? What are the best-selling books, magazines and
newspapers?
- Where are the shortages?
- Follow the financial pages. Look for common stocks selling
at higher than average price-earnings multiples.
- What are the comic strips saying?
Where and what are the
most popular seminars?
- Who's losing...having going-out-of- business sales and
filing bankruptcy?
- Check vehicle registrations for types, prices, etc.
- Study display advertising.
- Watch crime statistics.
- Look at mail order catalogs.
- Visit trade shows and read trade magazines. Visit shows
outside your industry
- Travel. Watch and listen.
You can add a dozen other indicators that are unique to your
field. But you need to keep the blinders off, in order to stay in
touch with the big picture.
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Original Positive-Attitude Book
Highly Relevant Today!
Most of us have read Napoleon Hill's classic book, Think and Grow
Rich. But before Hill, a man by the name of Orison Swett Marden
published a book in 1908 titled He Can Who Thinks He Can.
Here are some of the quotes from Marden's book written in 1908.
- Self-reliance is the best capital in the world.
Self-depreciation is a crime.
- The greatest enemies of achievement are fear, doubt, and
vacillation.
- Every child should be taught to expect success.
- The man who has learned the art of seeing things, looks with
his brain.
- The best-educated people are those who are always learning,
always absorbing knowledge from every possible source, and at
every opportunity.
- People do not realize the immense value of utilizing spare
minutes.
- Be yourself.
- Your judgment is your best friend; your common sense is your
great life partner.
- Do not stop dreaming.
- A test of the quality of the individual is the spirit in
which he does his work.
- Some people never see any beauty anywhere. Others see it
everywhere.
- Your life work is your statue.
- Some of the greatest men in history never discovered
themselves until they lost everything but their pluck and grit.
- Responsibility is a great power developer.
If one is so
loosely attached to his occupation that he can be easily induced
to give it up, you may be sure that he is not in the right
place.
- Almost anybody can resolve to do a great thing. It is only
the strong, determined character that puts the resolve into
execution.
- Character is the greatest force in the world.
- No substitute has ever yet been discovered for honesty.
- Happiness is a condition of mind.
- Real happiness is so simple that most people do not
recognize it.The world makes way for the man with an idea.
The Growth and Use of Secondary
Capital (New Money) Creates Unprecedented Wealth In Today's New Age
Of Possibility
There are many forms of secondary
capital — which can be defined as any financial instrument that
measures and communicates value in a common language. Would you like
to see and learn more about the many forms of secondary capital?
We have 70 free, informative and
inspiring, articles for you in our "Secondary Capital Section."
Check it out...
www.barternews.com/secondary_capital.htm.
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