Category: Business Philosophy
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Leadership At SageRock
Leadership is where even the biggest companies fall down. This is because leadership has so much to do with ego and survival. Training someone for a leadership position means that you very well might be training your replacement. It also means that you might train someone that will do a better job than you. Consequently,…
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The Leadership Training Reading List
The leadership training at SageRock has got to be ongoing. Every leader at SageRock should have some base requirements and then continual training… maybe something like 2 books or two classes a year on leadership. There should also probably be SageRock Leadership meetings… possibly every other month or something. Amazon.com: Appreciative Leaders: In the Eye…
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The 10 Commandments
This is the very early stages of leadership training at SageRock. In order to instill the SageRock Core Value of Concern, Respect and Empathy for the SageRock Team into the leaders of SageRock, I’m toying with the idea of creating the 10 Commandments. These would be principles that all SageRock leaders would be required to…
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What Is Truth
One of the great things about spiritual thoughts is that you so often can make them apply to your situation. And, generally, that’s OK because that’s what the thoughts are meant to do and be… general guides for your life. Terry Pluto is talking about Pontius Pilate here: Beacon Journal | 04/08/2006 | Doing right…
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Communication
I read and think a lot about personal and business growth. It seems that virtually every problem that has to do with you and someone else can all be fixed with open, clear communication. There was an article in the Beacon on Valentines Day that was from divorce court. The judge said that all divorces…
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The SageRock Core Value
The SageRock Core Value reads: The concern, respect and empathy for the individual people we come in contact with at SageRock is our single core value. I’ve recently been thinking about what: Concern Respect Empathy all mean. Concern: This might be the most misleading of the three. Possibly the easiest way to discuss Concern is…
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Harvard Business Review on Management Innovation
Harvard Business Online | HBR This month’s issue is about Management Innovation. Man, this book is a good read. I’m so cheap I am always reluctant to dish out the $18 an issue on the news stand. So, I got my cheap self to the library today and read a few articles. Of particular interest…
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Values and Integrity
This is an interesting topic simply because the business world seems to try on many levels to get you to give up your integrity. It almost seems that lack of integrity is like a club that everyone wants you to join. “I joined, so it’s really important that you join.” I see this so much…
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Leadership Training
The reason I wrote the post, “SageRock Is In A Great Position,” is because I wanted to give a little background at to why I want to discuss Leadership Training. As SageRock grows, leadership development is going to become an increasingly important part of my job. I have to say, I’m extremely excited about this…
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SageRock Is In A Great Position
Right now is a very exciting time at SageRock. For reasons we can’t exactly pin down, we are stronger than we have ever been.? There are at least three factors that are probably playing a part in that… but to exactly what degree, we’re not sure. They are: More agressive sales and marketing A new…
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Donaldson Resources: website design, internet marketing, northeast ohio
I just read a nice article on the Akron Beacon Journal from Mike Rasor. He featured Donaldson Resources. They are a one person web design company run by Sandra Donaldson. You can read the article here: Beacon Journal | 02/05/2006 | Web site designer knows best Mike Rasor I like Sandra’s philosophy for several reasons:…