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It’s Not the Technology — It’s YOU, WITH The Technology

By Chris | Published: July 28, 2009
From the Real Sim­ple Suc­cess newsletter. photo credit: daniel9d In this week’s issue: It’s the tech­nol­ogy plus YOU that makes the tech­nol­ogy magic. Don’t for­get this, if you want to the tech­nol­ogy to work for you. My father came home with his first per­sonal com­puter in 1983. Time had just named the per­sonal com­puter its “Man of the [...]
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Selfless vs. Selfish Selling (Robert Middleton)

By Chris | Published: November 12, 2008
Self­ish Sell­ing includes these attrib­utes: The focus is pri­mar­ily on mak­ing the sale, not serv­ing the cus­tomer; the atti­tude is pri­mar­ily self-serving; the agenda is some level of decep­tion, and the per­spec­tive is that of “win-lose.” Self­less Sell­ing includes these attrib­utes: The focus is pri­mar­ily on serv­ing the cus­tomer; the atti­tude is one of gen­eros­ity; the [...]
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“The way is clear for any one who thinks first of service” (Henry Ford)

By Chris | Published: October 28, 2008
“Con­cretely, what I most real­ized about busi­ness in that year–and I have been learn­ing more each year with­out find­ing it nec­es­sary to change my first conclusions–is this:  (1) That finance is given a place ahead of work and there­fore tends to kill the work and destroy the fun­da­men­tal of service.  (2) That think­ing first of money instead [...]
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