Tag Archives: Communication

How Am I Here Now?

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What is the opportunity that you find yourself in today?  What people did you meet to get here?  What are you going to do to create more such opportunities? I am on my way to Ft. Lauderdale to meet with my EO Insignia Forum.  My close friend Joe has a place there, so we are going ...

What are your dreams?

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  What an interesting week!  Last week, I traveled to New York City to participate in the Entrepreneurs’ Organization Injected Campus event, which brings the regional EO Forums together.  We met in lower Manhattan to be close to the New York Stock Exchange. This year during our event, the NYSE opening bell was rung by InvenSense, a ...

The Mobile Future is Right Before Our Eyes!

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  Last week, I traveled to Dallas, TX for a guys’ weekend with my son Tony, his close friend Steven, and my brother Mark. While there, we also attended the Bills vs. Cowboys football game. Having grown up in Rochester, NY, I am a Bills fan, which is often difficult to endure. That weekend was no ...

How Do You Get Great Ideas?

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  Many of us out there hold a strong aversion and distaste for meetings. You have heard it before, or possibly even said it yourself: “We do nothing but have meetings around here, so how am I to get any work done?” Why do we have such negative feelings in regards to getting a group of ...

How Important is the WHY in your “Why?”

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My entire life there’s always been this ingrained curiosity about the world, people, how things work and especially about business. “Why?” is and always has been commonplace in my vocabulary, asking anyone about anything I came across.  My family, business partners and team hammer back…..”WHY! WHY! WHY! Why do you ask why so much”?!   It ...

A Lesson in Listening

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There are times when you have to make business decisions that are painful. Those decisions are often accompanied by the feeling that your work, effort, worry, and money have all been a waste. For 4 years now, my partner Rich and I have owned a franchise of 1-800-GOT-JUNK. These franchises have been ...

Can we be candid here?

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In my business, I have found that at the top of the list of problem areas resides communication. Working in a global market adds in a variety of cultures making communication something that should not be taken lightly. With the world getting flatter, many of us now have customers, suppliers, partners, or team mates in ...