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If your business isn’t the best quality, it will not succeed
Excerpt from last week’s SNQ Plus 1 internal meeting. 12/7/12: “If your business isn’t the best quality, it will not succeed.” – Tracy Reese In just about every industry, quality plays a key role....
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What’s in your toolbox?
I recently moved, and the process of unpacking the kitchen prompted me to evaluate all things cooking related. Do I use the tools I have on hand? Are they the most appropriate tool for the use? If I...
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If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door
Excerpt from last week’s SNQ Plus 1 internal meeting. 12/14/12: If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. - Milton Berle This resonates for two significant reasons. First is the one that most...
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Use your customer’s vocabulary, not your company’s
Excerpt from last week’s SNQ Plus 1 internal meeting. 1/4/13: “Use your customer’s vocabulary, not your company’s.” Because Status Not Quo is a technically focused company (IT, Finance, Operations,...
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Stop starting, and start finishing.
Excerpt from last week’s SNQ Plus 1 internal meeting. 1/18/13: “Stop starting, and start finishing.” I heard this one during a training/certification class that Pam, Sarah, and I attended last week –...
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When second-guessing isn’t such a bad thing…
So a big black dog barks at you, his fur on end, sounding (and looking!) as if he wants to eat you for breakfast. What do you see? Mean, scary dog? Exit stage left as quickly as possible? Take a...
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There are many more complicated solutions than there are complicated problems
Excerpt from last week’s SNQ Plus 1 internal meeting. 2/21/13: “There are many more complicated solutions than there are complicated problems.” This was an outstanding thought provided SNQ’s own Jeff...
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Why You Do What You Do
This past week one of our employees celebrated her first year anniversary – congratulations Ashley! So, I thought it quite ironic as I finished typing up her annual review that I received a LinkedIn...
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Breadcrumbs
When we work on large projects, creating a set of documents and files that can easily be followed from beginning to end is critical. It’s so easy when working through the project to just grab the data...
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Priorities
We all have a list of priorities. We take care of the children in our lives, whether a friend’s, a niece or nephew, or our own. We worry about our parents, and try to be there for them. We try to be...
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Inspiration triggers
Inspiration. Much has been written about the subject. Where does it strike? When you’re singing in the shower … a weekend getaway … when you’re fresh in the morning? When does it happen? 3am …...
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Everyday leadership
The subject of leadership and what makes a good leader is a source of never-ending discussion. Great leaders are often discussed in light of their actions during a major event, such as the Tylenol...
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Establishing Top-Shelf Customer Engagement
If you’ve ever read one of my blogs, you may know that one of my passions is client relationships. It’s the one thing in my job that makes everyday worth working. At Status Not Quo, we are proud to...
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Is your budget a road trip or road kill?
Business planning (aka budgeting or forecasting) can be compared to a road trip. For a road trip, you identify a destination (sales target for example), the correct fuel and sources to re-fuel...
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Hiring for the long run – personality
A theme that is gaining momentum in hiring is the shift from a laundry list of required skills and credentials a candidate must possess for a job, to emphasis placed on the personality and potential...
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Website trends for 2014
This is a topic fairly overused by this point in the year. I’ve recently run into a multitude of articles and blog posts with a very wide range of trends in web design for 2014. Some are written very...
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Prioritization – how do I know what to do next?
The ability to correctly prioritize your to do list is a skill that develops gradually. How many times have you made a to do list, started ranking the tasks as A, B or C level with the A’s the top...
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How to break free from your desk
Everywhere we turn, we’re bombarded with warnings: Sitting is killing you! Your desk job is shaving years off your life! Human beings aren’t built to be sedentary, we’re designed to move! But for...
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Collaborative Consumtion – Sharing Economies – What’s the big deal?
The phrase, “There’s an app for that”, has never been more true than in today’s market . This is not surprising given the adoption rate of mobile devices and the fact that mobile exceeds PC internet...
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