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Personal, Quality, sales

The Family Business, Learning from Family

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The skills one learns in family are directly transferable to a lot of situations in life.

In family general speaking we will go the extra mile.

Sometimes we are not exactly sure why we do this. For example we will make unsecured loans, give advice, arrange any number of things. The basis for this is that we have known our family members for a long period time.

While we may trust them or not. We know what to expect. This is built on trust over a long period time and many different situations. If one was to put it simply we know our family better then any one.

What has this do with business? Getting to know your employees, how important is this? Some might say that it is just a Job. X amount of hours per a day, does corretly describe a job. For a successful company they can not offer just jobs.

They have to offer more. Ideally a career or at best a vocation. If one is to do this they will have to understand there employees.

This is a great skill. Understanding your resources, It is management but not in a traditional sense. It is more listen and and then pairing the right work with the right employee. All these skills can be learnt in the standard family model which is way running a department is so much more then just allocating work or pieces of paper.

Ask a Question, Consultancy, Personal

The Biggest Problems are Solved by the Simplest Solutions

We have to day been working on a printer problem. we needed to replace quite a bit of the electronics.

The only problem was we could not gain access to the part we needed. After searching on the internet brought no results.

We turned the device upside down and where able to locate a spring key which removed the undercarraige. allowing us access the part and solve the problem.

Hence the biggest problems are solved by the simplest solutions. I like that motto….

Personal

The Isle of Man no longer smoking.

This is an interesting subjects for a number of reasons. The current trend of recent years to ban smoking from public places has been very successful. There are people that are very proude about this. I take a very different view, One has to ask themselves who it is that benefits from this. There was an example of a smoke free pub here on the IOM. Which bravely decided to make this change, the effects were quite dramatic almost overnight the pub become deserted. Who is it that benefits from smoke free pubs? While there is obviously the people that do not smoke. Considering that they are minority of regular drinkers, why is that pubs have not gone smoke free of their own self will. Simply it is money as it is the pursuit of money that also making them smoke free. The main benefactors from this smoke free environment (in this bloggers opinion) is lawyers and insurance companies.  Insurance companies benefit from the lower risk. It is sad and more important takes away the rights of people. It starts with this but before too long you will not be able to smoke within 70 meters of a public place.(as in canada)  If I ran an ale business and  I knew that 70 percent of my clients are smokers than I would not ban smoking. I am no longer allowed to make this choice. (we have to moddle cuddle every person.) I do believe that the more rules you have the more stupid you make people. This could be the Isle of Man’s great benefit that we think for ourselves and I hope that we do.

 

(Just for the record, I am a non smoker)

development, Personal, work, writing

How Many Times do you Need to Blog

 I was just reading some history about Darren Rowse and how he got into blogging. He recommended that if you want to climb the ranks of blogs you would need to be blogging quite a few times a day. While I can see the effect in this: it would keep the search engines busy and your readers too. Most of us being frank probably only have one really good idea every couple days so blogging more than that could became a bit stale. Of course if my readers wanted to hear my opinions about the American elections and the price of oil and gold I could be persuaded, I would still probably want to blog within a team. Just for the editorial checks… What are your thoughts? would you like to write severely posts a day?

Personal, sales

Three Answers Yes, No, Maybe

Just yesterday I was talking about it again. It is not the first time. It always annoys me how presumable reasonable clever people are unable to answer their emails/calls. If someone writes to you or sends you something. There are three answers Yes, Maybe, No. The amount of people that have a problem with this is amazing. Of course we all know that no answer means that the person is not interested, but I would have much more respect for somebody who can write that in a e-mail. What do you think…?