Socrates Says

Points to Ponder v1.0

When I was a little person we had an elder from the church that we went to by the name of Tony Doxsey. He took an interest in my family and was a wonderful man. He was sophisticated, incredibly well-mannered and an entrepreneur. He owned and operated an Interior Decorating/Design business. So you can imagine […]

Points to Ponder

This will become a regular feature of our blog. The points to ponder will be irregular in timing but they will be here often. Let’s start it off with some very pertinent questions. In any classroom sessions I am involved with I ask for some simple definitions. What is the definition of ignorance? What is […]

Service Management – Unit I March 21st & 22nd, 2012

The “New” Quest Service Management – Unit I What it looks like when it is Right A more professional, productive and profitable Service Operation is necessary for the distributors in the Capitals Goods Industries to be successful. To assist in the development of this Service Management team we have designed a new series of training […]

Parts Management – Unit I March 19th – 20th, 2012

The “New” Quest Parts Management – Unit I What it looks like when it is Right  A more professional, productive and profitable Parts Operation is necessary for the distributors in the Capitals Goods Industries to be successful. To assist in the development of this Parts Management team we have designed a new series of training […]

I HATE DISCOUNTS

The people that know me and have worked with me in any capacity of the past forty plus years know that I HATE DISCOUNTS. I know you have to offer some special pricing every now and again. However, too many people just change the price on an item in a transaction and that leaves a […]

Updating the Add to stock blog from yesterday

Yesterday we had difficulty in format for the table of probabilities. With this update we hope we can clear up any misunderstandings. The first column is the time between the last two calls of a part number. The second column is the probability of a sale in the coming twelve month period of time. Time […]