QUOTES ON LEADERSHIP AND MOTIVATION DISCUSSED IN POSTS…..
Retail is all about beating Last Year’s key metrics from sales to conversion to units per transaction. This is how your results and performance are measured. I challenge you to look at it a different way as well. Always challenge yourself and your team to be better today than you were yesterday. This is [Continue]
POWERFUL WORDS! Empowerment is such a huge piece of leadership and I think that is what Nelson Mandela is speaking to. Grow and lead your people by setting them up for success and letting them lead. Guide them and stay connected but stay back and let them get up front. Your people will grow with [Continue]
BELIEVE, B-E-L-I-E-V-E, BELIEVE! So powerful! You can be anything you want to be. You can do anything you want to do. You can be anybody you want to be. First, you must believe. It is so important to believe in yourself. Others can not believe in you if you don’t. Believe in all you are [Continue]
Where are you going? Where do you want to be? To get there you must say that’s where you want to go. It is so important to define your objectives, goals, vision. Daily, weekly, monthly goals are a huge part of retail and everyday life. Many people are great at stating these and others not [Continue]
American author, poet, activist, tax resister, and more! Henry David Thoreau spoke on many things, but on this Thursday before the big weekend these words need to resonate with you! “IN THE LONG RUN MEN HIT ONLY WHAT THEY AIM AT.” — Henry David Thoreau And there you have it. What are you and [Continue]
On Friday, June 4, 2010 one of the greats – John Wooden – died at the age of 99. Wooden led UCLA basketball to 10 NCAA Championships in 12 seasons. This feat may never be repeated in history. A leader for all time? Absolutely! Wooden taught his players character, integrity, humility and other life skills. [Continue]
The same can be said of business. It is critical that a team works together. We could be discussing the company’s executive team, peer group teams, regions, districts, or store teams. The team unit accomplishes more through trust, support, collaboration, sharing, competition, and encouragement! It is very difficult to stop a cohesive team [Continue]
H. GORDON SELFRIDGE was born during the Civil War and began his career at Marshall Field’s in Chicago. He was a student of retail in history and is credited with two phrases that you have all used: “The Customer is always right.” And “Only _____ Shopping Days Until Christmas.” He visited London in the early [Continue]
As discussed in the goal setting article, you can only get there if you know where there is. Henry David Thoreau states it eloquently in this brief quote. Goal setting is important to drive purposeful work. As retailers we have built in goals every day with our key performance metrics; however, micro-level goal setting on [Continue]
“Instead of waiting for your ship to come in, grab two oars and row out to it.” Vance Haver What the heck are you waiting for? Just get it done. No one is responsible for you and your career and your results but you. Stop waiting for something good to happen to you [Continue]
JACK WELCH JACK WELCH, longtime CEO of GE, got a lot of things right. He led GE to record heights and clearly he knew to put people first. When you have the right talent, do not be a “helicopter manager.” Let those people soar. Your people hiring decisions are the most important decisions that you [Continue]
How true is that? You do make your own luck. When you work hard — good things will happen! Stay the course and believe. Share on Facebook [Continue]
Heard that! Inertia is an amazing thing. Inertia is defined as “the tendency of an object in motion to remain in motion, or an object at rest to remain at rest, unless acted upon by a force” on About.com. The concept was quantified in Newton’s First Law of Motion. I believe strongly in interia [Continue]
MY MOTHER HAD ONLY GONE AS FAR AS THE 10TH GRADE, AND MY FATHER HAD A THIRD-GRADE EDUCATION, BUT THEY BOTH WERE VERY LITERATE. THEY SPOKE WELL, AND THEIR VALUES WERE HIGH. THEY DRUMMED INTO OUR HEADS THAT THE SITUATION YOU LIVE IN DOESN’T HAVE TO LIVE IN YOU. ROBERTA FLACK WOW! Profound [Continue]
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. James B. Conant Scientist, educator, President of Harvard, Manhattan Project. MMMmmmmm… great point. Sometimes you have to stick your neck out; step beyond your comfort zone; make a stand; stand up for yourself; just go for it to fulfill your dreams, goals, [Continue]
Is there anything else to say really? We would not be in this business without the customers. THANK GOODNESS FOR OUR CUSTOMERS! Have you ever walked into a store and the staff was busy doing stuff and / or talking on the phone? Did you feel welcome at all? Probably not. Customer service can be [Continue]
As this recession begins to recede and business begins to move in a new direction, will you be ready to maximize? Do you remember how to win? Will you be satisfied and relieved by any win or will you seek to maximize every opportunity? The average manager will be satisfied with just a win. Leaders [Continue]
I ran into this quote today which amplifies today’s article so I wanted to share it with you: TO EXCEL IS TO REACH YOUR OWN HIGHEST DREAM. BUT YOU MUST ALSO HELP OTHERS, WHERE AND WHEN YOU CAN, TO REACH THEIRS. PERSONAL GAIN IS EMPTY IF YOU DO NOT FEEL YOU HAVE POSITIVELY TOUCHED ANOTHER’S [Continue]
