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Book Recommendation – Hard-Won Wisdom: True Stories From The Management Trenches
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu 10/26/16 Hard-Won Wisdom: True Stories from the Management Trenches By Jathan Janove Copyright 2017 Price $17.95 Pages: 221 and Index A Management Book from a completely different perspective Author Jathan Janove is a work place litigation lawyer. He has spent the bulk of his career litigating work place relationships which gives his book a […]
Looking Good! How good is your company’s appearance?
It’s all of those little things that make a big difference Seven ways to create a welcoming company How good do you think your company is? How do you think you’re doing? What do you do well? What do you need to work on? What do you people think when they walk into your lobby? These are questions you should […]
Catching Up With M&A Expert Tom Kastner
If you want to know what is going on in our industry when it comes to mergers and acquisitions, there is no better person to turn to than Tom Kastner. Whenever I hear a rumor of a company being bought or sold that I want to verify Tom is the first person I call and unless he is under a […]
Why Best Buy Will Go Out Of Business
And why they don’t have to Have you been to Best Buy lately? If you have you’ll see a store that is going to go out of business, sooner than later. And the shame of it there is no need to. Last Saturday I dropped off a computer because the “J” key had come off and I could not get […]
Book Recommendation – Learning to Succeed: Rethinking Corporate Education in a World of Unrelenting Change
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu. Learning to Succeed: Rethinking Corporate Education in a World of Unrelenting Change By: Jason Wingard Copyright 2015Amacom Price $29.95 Pages: 220 with Notes and Index You can never stop learning It’s time we took learning seriously. For many years things in business were static enough or at least much more static that they are […]
Book Recommendation – Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The Real Secret to Success second edition
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu: Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The Real Secret to Success second edition By: David Livermore Copyright 2015 Amacom Price $26.95 Pages: 255 with Index A passageway to Global Leadership Let’s get right to it. Cultural Intelligence CQ is a measurement of your ability based on knowledge and experience to lead across cultural lines. It is […]
To Be Great You have To Be Unreasonable!
To be great you have to be unreasonable. You have to be the one who expects more from yourself and the people around you than you are all comfortable giving. You have to get off your butt, get out of that comfort zone and make things happen that no one thought possible. Look, reasonable people are nice, they are easy […]
Catching Up with Vector Fabrication’s Quang Luong: Here Comes Vietnam!
I have known Quang Luong, the owner of Vector Fabrication, for many years now, and I have always been interested in his business and how it operates, especially since he is the only PCB shop owner I know of who has a company both in the U.S. and in Vietnam. Saigon Silicon City Based on Silicon Valley Quang recently sent […]
Book Recommendation – High Profit Prospecting: Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales Results
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu 10/2/16 High Profit Prospecting: Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales Results By Mark Hunter Copyright 2016Amacom Price $18.95 Pages: 206 with Index Man this is a great book. This is by far the best book on prospecting and lead generation I have ever read or I should say used. […]
How To Get The Most From Your PCB Vendors
We have talked a lot in this column about how board shops should treat their customers. How they should try to get to know their customers and their needs. So now let’s switch things around and talk about how customers should treat board shops, how they should work with board shops to get the best products and the best performances […]
