Apr 20 2011

America IS small business

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Like Nero with Rome,

                                     

Obama Fiddles

                                    

While America Burns

                              

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

And not unlike one of Aesop’s Fables, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, mainstream media talking heads reported once again today that the U.S. economy is on the road to recovery. How nice. Do YOU believe it any more?

Some of these feeble excuses for “reporters” need to talk to the plummeting dollar, soaring fuel costs, unemployment lines, and some of the Americans I’ve felt saddened to see rummaging through fastfood and convenience store garbage pails and dumpsters for food scraps.

Has your business been interviewed? 

                                                                                                

We have of course heard this type of hype (floating somewhere between make-believe and outright lying) every day since Mr, Obama moved into the White House.

Checked the gas pumps lately?

                                                                              

I mean, really folks. First of all, we who visit this blog are small business and professional practice owners and managers. We are entrepreneurs. We are professional salespeople. We represent the leading edge in business, technology, education and healthcare.

We–to use Mr. Obama’s own “words of the week”—are not stupid!

$4 a gallon and rising? 

 

Even IF gas pump prices were simply a fuel-for-our-vehicles issue, we might live with it. Unfortunately, it’s Dominoes! Skyrocketing fuel costs mean skyrocketing delivery costs and skyrocketing food costs and skyrocketing travel and airfare costs. All these “burstings in air” and it’s not even July 4th!

And to top it all off, the grand tsunami of costs that are tangled up with “Obamacare” will be paid by small business for decades to come, providing free healthcare for those unwilling to earn it, including (unbelievably) illegal aliens!

If you’re trying to figure all of this out, think politics. Reality is that we do not have a national leader who understands or practices or even cares about leadership. He fiddles while our nation’s reputation and respect dissolves away. What would happen if you tried to get away with that in your business?

He fiddles while his reckless socialist agenda spending disregards the lives of small business owners and managers who work hard for a living, who contribute most to society to begin with, who have the most promise to offer for real economic turnaround. Why? Because he doesn’t care and he doesn’t get it. All that matters is politics . . . 

Voter dependency delivers voter votes!

(Listen to his speeches. They are A~L~L campaign speeches. A~L~L.) 

                                                            

The more that government continues to intercede in our lives and businesses, the greater the dependency on government that’s created.

The more dependent on government we become, the more beholden we become for what government decides to give us, the more we vote for government generosity in order to live.

Is that sick or what?

Sorry, fellow business owners, but I doubt this is why any of us are in business. Lured by The Great American Dream, and the rights granted us as “We the people” by the Constitution of the United States –and as one nation under God– we are in business to help ourselves, our families, those for whom we can create jobs, and our communities.

We are in business to create opportunities to give back to the communities that support us from the only place that makes sense — from a position of strength. 

Our present government seeks to be THE ONLY source of strength.

                                                                                 

Frustrating? Inconceivable? This is why I will not let go of these issues. They are at least as important for each of us to deal with as our our own employees, customers, balance sheets, income statements, brands, operations, revenue streams, and innovative leadership. Our federal government is over-stepping its bounds every single day.

Isn’t it time to step up to the plate and make your voice heard? There are 30 million small businesses in America. Just imagine what’s possible if each of us would just speak up . . .  

                                                                  

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Jan 26 2011

The Million Dollar Question.

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THE JOB INTERVIEW QUESTION THAT ALWAYS WORKS . . .

                                                 

I’ve seen your resume,

                          

Mr. Dweeb,

                                                

but what I really want

                             

to know is what would

                                     

you do with a million

                                             

dollars cash, right now?”

 

One of the best –most revealing– interview questions you can ask a job applicant is ”If I handed you a million dollars right now, what would you do with it?” 

You’ll learn a whole lot more about what makes an applicant tick than you would by asking the person to explain the details of information shown on her or his resume.

Open-ended questions put an applicant more at ease than requests for formal recitations of what you already have in front of you on paper, or can easily find out. 

Open-ended questions can give you true, realistic profile. The answers are necessarily unrehearsed. You can gain valuable insights about an individual’s attitude, sense of leadership, teamwork, and self-motivation.

Almost always, clues (if not strong indications) are offered in the answers to this type of question that help the employer gain a better measure of a prospective employee’s ambitions, values, key relationships, sense of loyalty, spirituality, and even bad habits, than with traditional interview approaches. 

Ask and then listen.  Don’t interrupt.  Take notes. Ask only for clarification or examples . . . 

Oh, so what I think I hear you saying

is that you’d book the next flight to the

islands, load up on piña coladas, and

live out your life as a beachcomber?

 

Then ask questions about the answers you get to “the million dollar question.” 

That certainly sounds like a great vacation, but do you think you might get tired of it after awhile?  Which islands would you most likely consider and why?  Would you take up exotic foods and drinks?  What kinds of transportation would you take to get there? Who would you take with you? (Would you rush . . . or take your time, plan your routes, and see the sights along the way?)   

In responding to open-ended questions, people often tell considerably more about their real selves than what’s on a resume.  And if spontaneity and creative thinking are qualifications, you’ll get a taste of what an applicant might bring to the table.  The more you know about a job applicant, the better your odds for success with making the right employment decision.

In the end, after all is said and done, business leaders can’t be reminded enough that:

People are your most important asset.

 

So what would YOU do with a million dollars cash, right now?

 

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