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Retirement? The Next Chapter
Throughout my professional career, the word “Retirement” was seldom on my mind. Although the subject popped up occasionally, it was...


Investment in Training
It happens many times, in many companies, and many industries. The training budget seems never to be sufficient. Even in good times,...


What is the Soup of the Day?
How important is training? We have been talking about “training” throughout several of my blog articles. You will have noticed that...


Advancement, Another Rung Up the Ladder
As a sales manager at the Westin Ilikai, my performance was deemed commendable. During those years, together with the other sales...


Supportive Audience Indicates Success
As mentioned in past articles, I developed early in my career, a sincere desire and interest in helping to develop future sales...


Your Personal Brand, What do “You” Stand for and How do You Want to be Remembered?
In the last article, we looked at Branding with regards to your company and the product you sell. Today, we want to take a look at...


Management Trainee Programs and Management Trainees
Throughout my career in hotels and attractions, I have contributed to various “management trainee” programs. It was a pleasure and an...


Mentoring Others
Throughout my sales and marketing career, I realized that I wanted very much to help guide others. As I watch young salespeople trying...


Developing the Next Generation, Software to Drive the Hardware
We speak constantly about Generation X, Y, and Z. We constantly draw differences when comparing with our generation (Wow, I am really...


Giving Back
When I reflect on my professional career which spans over 40 years, one of my utmost joys other than my achievements is being able to...


5 Qualities of Remarkable Bosses
Throughout my career, my ambition was to work hard and someday be a boss, be a leader. However, I also realized early in my career that...


Develop Pride or Be Destroyed
Pride is a word that can be misinterpreted or misdefined. We hear this word very often but on many occasions, it is used in passing and...


Give a Treat: Inspire and Motivate Your People
I remember being taught very early in my career that supervision is a must in managing people because everyone needs to be supervised. ...


How Do You Take on a Challenge?
Thank you for taking the time to follow my blog and reading the various articles that I have written. There is more to come and I hope...


About Those KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)...
We have all heard of the term Key Permanence Indicator (KPI), a management tool to measure performance and productivity. Plainly, these...


An Opportunity Lost is Lost Forever
Some time ago, I had an eye-opening experience that prompted me to develop a presentation titled “Selling and Buying is Emotional.” ...


People Make all the Difference
Successful Leaders in business understand and value the importance of the team, the entire team. While the main goal in business is to...


So You Want to be a Leader: Think You have What it Takes?
Supposedly, we all want to be leaders. Becoming a leader seems to be the ultimate goal for us, the final achievement, reaching the...


Failure is the Mother of Success
Throughout our careers and our personal lives, we are constantly told that failure is not an option. Supposedly, we cannot fail, not...


Give Them a Reason to Visit, and They WILL Visit
Ocean Park had a fabulous 15 years from 2000 to 2015. It turned red ink into black ink beginning in 2001. 2003 would have continued...
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