The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.
Mark Caine
Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark Twain
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Charles de Gaulle
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I thought this Friday I would share with you some “Sleeism’s” or “when in doubt thoughts…”
Always assume the other person is twice as smart as you are and work twice as hard to prove they aren’t.
Be happy in your work or work and be happy. You have no choice you have to work.
Never forget:-
What you do when you are alone or when no one is looking….. That is your character, morality and ethics.
We must all feel some sense of value, we are here for a reason
Remember Kipling. “If you can keep your head while all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. You will be a man my son.”
It is never too early to start winning. It is always too early to start losing.
It is hard to soar with the eagles if you are up late at night with the turkeys.
Man is like the turtle, you have to stick your neck out to get ahead.
Schedules are difficult but… mankind cannot deliver a baby in one month by having nine men impregnate the same woman.
Give more stress than you receive
You can slide further on BS than you can on sand.
Life is quite simple. It is people that screw it up.
Depression is nothing more than anger turned inward.
Before you can be of any value to anyone else you must be of value to yourself.
Which all concludes with
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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson
We can do no great things – only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
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Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
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We are resurrecting the Insight brand with a new mission. Previously we provided “Twenty Group” services to small groups of dealers, twelve in our case, who had an interest in best practice approaches for their business. We operated many groups for over a decade and appreciated the opportunity to assist in their profitable development. Each group improved their Company net income a minimum of three percentage points and in some cases improved their net income performance by as much as ten points. It is a credit to their leadership that this happened.
We are now in the process of creating an evaluation tool for dealers in a new alliance with Foresight Intelligence, to build on our experiences within the “Twenty Group” framework and our Consulting practice over the past thirty five years.
Foresight Intelligence is our choice as a business partner in this venture. They are experts in turning data into actionable information, which serves both as guideposts and drivers for effective change. Foresight Intelligence have worked with many dealers and enabled them to view all their metrics in a single place, in visually appealing charts that are easy to understand and act upon. Your metrics are easily benchmarked against the best and your improvements are continuously in front of you. This panoramic and in depth visibility is critical in executing our proven strategies to increase performance and profitability.
Together we are building a business model which everyone can have access to and use either via R.J. Slee & Associates or Foresight Intelligence.
We will provide an input template for a participating Company to use, this will be for the dealer to submit their information, either openly or confidentially. That basic data entry will be processed through our “Financial Fitness Models” and the results will be presented to the dealer on line. The key will be a graphic presentation of the dealer position relative to key metrics by department, which we use in our business at R.J. Slee & Associates. This will be the foundation for the “Financial Fitness Model.” This will allow the dealer to evaluate their individual performance against minimum acceptable performance criteria developed through our work with over one thousand dealers worldwide.
The dealer then is welcome to proceed and determine how to improve their operations as they see fit or they can use the services we will provide to assist in those efforts. We are developing a menu of options for the dealer to select from should they desire out assistance. This will range from “Typical Improvement Options (TIPS)” through to comprehensive consulting engagements with “Associated Content Experts (ACE’s).” We are currently building a network of Industry Experts who have retired and wish to be able to share their expertise with dealers.
We are extremely excited about this venture and our relationship with Foresight Intelligence. We will be making more comprehensive announcements as our products are finalized and ready for dealers everywhere to utilize.
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Many of you have noticed my “New Reality” take on business and the economy for the equipment Industries. The dislocations caused in 2008 have not been addressed completely as we transition once more to a new and better opportunity based society.
The challenges we confront have been broadly exposed and discussed from tax policies, to government regulation, to lending practices, to technological changes, and many more. And we need to address the four challenges exposed by Robert Gordon for our economy of; income inequality, debt, education and demographics. (You can see him on TED.com search for him by name Robert Gordon and the name of the talk is; The End of Innovation.)
You have also read me talking about the need for more job preparation coming from our educational options in previous blogs. I would like to expose to you now another element of the New Reality a short film from a Community College. Please watch it and then spend a moment thinking about how this might impact you, your family and your fellow employees.
Click on the line and watch. Make sure you have sound. This video is well done, it explains in pretty easy-to-understand terms why an associate degree or technical education might make more sense than a 4-year degree for people with certain skillsets. The video was funded by Perkins Grant money. https://vimeo.com/67277269
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of the people of their time.
John Kenneth Galbraith
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
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All students who take Subject Specific bundle of 4 classes are eligible to earn 2 Continuing Education Credits (CEU’s).
You must score 80% or higher on ALL classes. This completion entitles you to receive a certificate of achievement. This certificate will also highlight the number of CEU’s you have earned.
All students who take a Subject Specific class are eligible to earn 0.5 of a Continuing Education Credits (CEU).
You must score 80% or higher to obtain a passing mark for the class. This completion entitles you to receive a certificate of achievement. This certificate will also highlight the number of CEU’s you have earned.
