Good morning,
Happy Friday! In today’s interconnected business environment it seems that the importance of not burning bridges should be pretty obvious. Yet lately I’ve observed a number of situations that left me shaking my head.
These were instances in which one party didn’t get the outcome they wanted from the other and instead of being graceful about it they lashed out. I’m simply amazed by the shortsightedness of such bridge burning behaviors, which turn temporary setbacks into permanent losses. Since we don’t always get what we want today, the following advice is especially important.
Think long term.
Earlier this week I hired a company I haven’t worked with in years. I kept their contact information all this time because they did a great job and in particular, I still remember how gracious they were when I canceled their services. No muss, no fuss, just “we hope to have the opportunity to work with you again in the future.” That’s the opposite of burning bridges.
Let’s build some bridges – and have a sunny day!
Clarity
P.S. Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Clarity Patton Newhouse
Sunny Media Group, Inc.
313-268-6810
SunnyMediaGroup.com
Showing posts with label Competition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Competition. Show all posts
Friday, May 27, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Cut Your Losses
Good morning,
Happy Friday! Sometimes in business you can "stay the course" and in time you’ll reach your goal. But what do you do when you discover you’re going the wrong way?
Change direction.
Too often we’re afraid to admit we’ve made a mistake and take corrective action. Once we’ve invested our time, money or ego we’re reluctant to give up on those investments. But when we find ourselves on the wrong path a willingness to accept losses and change direction can enable us to avoid even greater losses later.
Lester Thurow reminds us that sometimes, “A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.”
Let’s make the right call - and have a sunny day!
Clarity
P.S. “When you're finished changing, you're finished.” Benjamin Franklin
P.P.S. I always enjoy hearing from you and I thank you for sharing Sunny Notes with others. New readers can Visit This Link to add an email address to receive Sunny Notes directly from me by email each Friday.
Clarity Patton Newhouse
Sunny Media Group, Inc.
313-268-6810
SunnyMediaGroup.com
Happy Friday! Sometimes in business you can "stay the course" and in time you’ll reach your goal. But what do you do when you discover you’re going the wrong way?
Change direction.
Too often we’re afraid to admit we’ve made a mistake and take corrective action. Once we’ve invested our time, money or ego we’re reluctant to give up on those investments. But when we find ourselves on the wrong path a willingness to accept losses and change direction can enable us to avoid even greater losses later.
Lester Thurow reminds us that sometimes, “A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.”
Let’s make the right call - and have a sunny day!
Clarity
P.S. “When you're finished changing, you're finished.” Benjamin Franklin
P.P.S. I always enjoy hearing from you and I thank you for sharing Sunny Notes with others. New readers can Visit This Link to add an email address to receive Sunny Notes directly from me by email each Friday.
Clarity Patton Newhouse
Sunny Media Group, Inc.
313-268-6810
SunnyMediaGroup.com
Friday, December 3, 2010
Make It Happen
Good morning,
Happy Friday! Thursday’s newspaper made me smile with its article about the economy heading in the right direction. Despite the tough times we’ve been through the world is still full of opportunities. The catch is that:
Opportunity doesn’t knock.
It just drives by - unless we jump up and chase it down. So if there’s an opportunity you’d like to pursue, now is the time to get out the gym shoes and in the words of Michael Jordan, "make it happen."
You can do it – and have a sunny day!
Clarity
P.S. "There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen." Wayne Dyer
P.P.S. Thank you for sharing Sunny Notes with others. New readers can Visit This Link to add an email address to receive Sunny Notes directly from me by email each Friday.
Clarity Patton Newhouse
Metropolitan Lincoln
32000 Ford Road
Garden City, MI 48135
313-670-7505
MetroMichigan.com
Happy Friday! Thursday’s newspaper made me smile with its article about the economy heading in the right direction. Despite the tough times we’ve been through the world is still full of opportunities. The catch is that:
Opportunity doesn’t knock.
It just drives by - unless we jump up and chase it down. So if there’s an opportunity you’d like to pursue, now is the time to get out the gym shoes and in the words of Michael Jordan, "make it happen."
You can do it – and have a sunny day!
Clarity
P.S. "There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen." Wayne Dyer
P.P.S. Thank you for sharing Sunny Notes with others. New readers can Visit This Link to add an email address to receive Sunny Notes directly from me by email each Friday.
Clarity Patton Newhouse
Metropolitan Lincoln
32000 Ford Road
Garden City, MI 48135
313-670-7505
MetroMichigan.com
Friday, August 20, 2010
Slow & Steady
Good morning,
Happy Friday! I’m reminded this week of Aesop’s fable about the Tortoise and the Hare. The Hare started out fast but didn’t discipline himself to stick to the program, while the Tortoise consistently put one foot in front of the other until he crossed the finish line first. It’s a simple story to illustrate a profound point.
Self discipline is the foundation of success.
Without self discipline, we get distracted, fail to finish things we start and allow ourselves to drift away from fundamental practices that (in the back of our minds) we know would make us more successful.
The good news is that some of the most important things we must do every day aren’t physically demanding. Instead, the challenge - or opportunity - lies in exercising the necessary willpower to do what needs to be done, and done consistently.
Today, self discipline helped carve out the time to write this Sunny Note, in order to walk my talk and wish you a sunny day!
Clarity
P.S. “In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.” Harry S. Truman
P.P.S. Thank you for sharing Sunny Notes with others. New readers can visit This Link to add an email address to receive Sunny Notes directly each Friday or read prior Sunny Notes at clarity.tv.
Clarity Patton Newhouse
Metropolitan Lincoln Mercury
32000 Ford Road
Garden City, MI 48135
313-670-7505
MetroMichigan.com
Happy Friday! I’m reminded this week of Aesop’s fable about the Tortoise and the Hare. The Hare started out fast but didn’t discipline himself to stick to the program, while the Tortoise consistently put one foot in front of the other until he crossed the finish line first. It’s a simple story to illustrate a profound point.
Self discipline is the foundation of success.
Without self discipline, we get distracted, fail to finish things we start and allow ourselves to drift away from fundamental practices that (in the back of our minds) we know would make us more successful.
The good news is that some of the most important things we must do every day aren’t physically demanding. Instead, the challenge - or opportunity - lies in exercising the necessary willpower to do what needs to be done, and done consistently.
Today, self discipline helped carve out the time to write this Sunny Note, in order to walk my talk and wish you a sunny day!
Clarity
P.S. “In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.” Harry S. Truman
P.P.S. Thank you for sharing Sunny Notes with others. New readers can visit This Link to add an email address to receive Sunny Notes directly each Friday or read prior Sunny Notes at clarity.tv.
Clarity Patton Newhouse
Metropolitan Lincoln Mercury
32000 Ford Road
Garden City, MI 48135
313-670-7505
MetroMichigan.com
Friday, July 30, 2010
Enjoy The Race
Good morning,
It’s Friday and that’s reason to smile! Last week’s Sunny Note encouraged big goals, because the bigger our goals the more we’re likely to achieve. Yet as we’re pursuing our dreams, let’s not forget that while the destination is important:
The journey matters most.
In business and life, it’s easy to get so focused on the finish line that we forget to enjoy the race. Enjoying the race is especially important since some finish lines won’t be reached. We might change direction, reevaluate our priorities or – sorry to mention the morbid truth – drop dead before we get there.
Inevitably, big goals involve big hurdles to overcome. That’s just part of the journey. And maybe we’ll reach the finish line, maybe we won’t. Either way, if we enjoy the race, compete with integrity and learn from the hurdles along the way, then no matter what – we are winners.
So here’s to the journey – and a sunny day!
Clarity
P.S. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” Ursula K. LeGuin
P.P.S. Thank you for sharing Sunny Notes with others. New readers can visit This Link to add an email address to receive Sunny Notes directly each Friday or read prior Sunny Notes at www.clarity.tv.
Clarity Patton Newhouse
Metropolitan Lincoln Mercury
32000 Ford Road
Garden City, MI 48135
313-670-7505
MetroMichigan.com
It’s Friday and that’s reason to smile! Last week’s Sunny Note encouraged big goals, because the bigger our goals the more we’re likely to achieve. Yet as we’re pursuing our dreams, let’s not forget that while the destination is important:
The journey matters most.
In business and life, it’s easy to get so focused on the finish line that we forget to enjoy the race. Enjoying the race is especially important since some finish lines won’t be reached. We might change direction, reevaluate our priorities or – sorry to mention the morbid truth – drop dead before we get there.
Inevitably, big goals involve big hurdles to overcome. That’s just part of the journey. And maybe we’ll reach the finish line, maybe we won’t. Either way, if we enjoy the race, compete with integrity and learn from the hurdles along the way, then no matter what – we are winners.
So here’s to the journey – and a sunny day!
Clarity
P.S. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” Ursula K. LeGuin
P.P.S. Thank you for sharing Sunny Notes with others. New readers can visit This Link to add an email address to receive Sunny Notes directly each Friday or read prior Sunny Notes at www.clarity.tv.
Clarity Patton Newhouse
Metropolitan Lincoln Mercury
32000 Ford Road
Garden City, MI 48135
313-670-7505
MetroMichigan.com
Friday, March 26, 2010
Game On
Good morning,
Happy Friday! We’ve probably all heard some version of the concept that it’s insane to repeat the same behavior and expect different results. This of course implies that repeating the same behavior will in fact produce the same results. However, these days we can only wish that doing the same thing would produce the same results. Instead, in the business world the reality is this.
Doing the same things we’ve always done WILL NOT produce the same results we’ve always gotten.
Today’s fast-moving business environment demands that we tune up our game and learn new plays if we want to achieve the same results in the current economy that we used to achieve during better economic times. This is even more critical if we want to achieve superior results.
Today, companies are at risk if they assume that the same old marketing or customer service techniques from past years will continue to produce the same results. Likewise, employees are at risk if they think the skills they had when they got the job are the same skills that will be required keep the job. We absolutely must continually “brush up” to improve our competitiveness or risk becoming irrelevant.
Just look around. Many college students graduating today have great new skills. Many veteran employees getting laid off have great professional experience. For those of us with a job who want to stay at the front of our field, it’s game on. People who are unemployed already know how competitive the marketplace is. It’s those of us who are currently employed that need to wake up and smell the new economy – or risk getting benched.
So today, let’s ask ourselves what enhancements we can make to our skills – or what improvements we can make to our businesses – to ensure that we remain the top choice for our employers and customers.
Let’s stay in the game and have a sunny day!
Clarity
P.S. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein, according to some internet sources. This quote has been attributed to other people as well after Einstein.
P.P.S. Thank you for visiting www.MySunnyNotes.com. If you’re new to Sunny Notes and would like to receive my sunny email each Friday, visit www.JoinSunnyNotes.com.
Clarity Patton Newhouse
Metropolitan Lincoln Mercury
32000 Ford Road
Garden City, MI 48135
313-670-7505
MetroMichigan.com
Happy Friday! We’ve probably all heard some version of the concept that it’s insane to repeat the same behavior and expect different results. This of course implies that repeating the same behavior will in fact produce the same results. However, these days we can only wish that doing the same thing would produce the same results. Instead, in the business world the reality is this.
Doing the same things we’ve always done WILL NOT produce the same results we’ve always gotten.
Today’s fast-moving business environment demands that we tune up our game and learn new plays if we want to achieve the same results in the current economy that we used to achieve during better economic times. This is even more critical if we want to achieve superior results.
Today, companies are at risk if they assume that the same old marketing or customer service techniques from past years will continue to produce the same results. Likewise, employees are at risk if they think the skills they had when they got the job are the same skills that will be required keep the job. We absolutely must continually “brush up” to improve our competitiveness or risk becoming irrelevant.
Just look around. Many college students graduating today have great new skills. Many veteran employees getting laid off have great professional experience. For those of us with a job who want to stay at the front of our field, it’s game on. People who are unemployed already know how competitive the marketplace is. It’s those of us who are currently employed that need to wake up and smell the new economy – or risk getting benched.
So today, let’s ask ourselves what enhancements we can make to our skills – or what improvements we can make to our businesses – to ensure that we remain the top choice for our employers and customers.
Let’s stay in the game and have a sunny day!
Clarity
P.S. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein, according to some internet sources. This quote has been attributed to other people as well after Einstein.
P.P.S. Thank you for visiting www.MySunnyNotes.com. If you’re new to Sunny Notes and would like to receive my sunny email each Friday, visit www.JoinSunnyNotes.com.
Clarity Patton Newhouse
Metropolitan Lincoln Mercury
32000 Ford Road
Garden City, MI 48135
313-670-7505
MetroMichigan.com
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