Author: jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.

Today’s leaders are too busy to focus on this critical success factor

leadership trust
we are all leaders, title or no title

 

Today’s overworked leaders are far too busy to focus on this critical success factor… Being effective in their subordinate and peer relationships.

This snowballs into bigger issues, which feeds the beast of fear and uncertainty.

This month jeff noel is encouraging Mid Life Celebration readers to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. To go in an instant from this money (career) blog to the HQ blog, just click -> go to Next Blog

 

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Two of the most dangerous ideas in business

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The Renaissance Hotel front desk is down on the far left

 

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the Renaissance Hotel front desk had complimentary iPads for web surfing

 

Two of the most dangerous ideas in business:

1. Being satisfied with meeting customer expectations
2. Playing it safe

Both of these are widely accepted as practical, sound advice. Both are deadly.

This month jeff noel is encouraging Mid Life Celebration readers to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. To go in an instant from this money (career) blog to the HQ blog, just click -> go to Next Blog

 

Leadership’s obligation regarding social media

embracing change
the social media ship has set sail, even if it doesn’t look like a ship (photo: Jamie Scott)

 

Leadership’s obligation regarding social media?

Embrace it.

In three weeks, WordPress is releasing it’s second major update for 2012 – WordPress 3.5.

Great leaders look ahead. The customer is embracing social media. That’s the main reason to love it, because you love your customers.

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Note: So here we are , roughly three months after WordPress’s latest efforts to make it easy to use and embrace. Some are ecstatic, some relatively unimpressed. Of course.

Best selling author of The Customer Rules, Lee Cockerell

Lee Cockerell
the last thing an author wants from you is to remain quiet about their book

 

Heading out in a few minutes to the local watering hole (Dr Phillips Starbucks) to meet with Lee and get the galley proof for his forthcoming book, The Customer Rules: The 39 Essential Rules for delivering Sensational Service. Preorder on Amazon.

Like I said in yesterday’s post, can you measure how far you’ve come? On multiple levels.

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Note: This was written 100 days ago, in real time. It posts to the world today, because I’m weird. Weird is the new cool. Or some such nonsense.