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“The secret to our success is our consistency of purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli “Consistency is part of integrity.” – Dave Ramsey A man in his 60’s had read our books and wanted to meet. He had worked very hard over the years and consistently given love to his children and grandchildren, even though there have been some exceptionally difficult times with the children. He said that upon reading our books, he identified with Michael. I was surprised that at his […]
Action without vision is chaos. Vision without action is hallucination. Vision provides the context and the direction. Action moves you in a direction. You need both Vision and Action to be successful. Your success is in plain sight. It just takes vision, determination and action! If you need more vision and/or more action, give our expert guides a call at 800-786-4332, or email JSabatini@AppliedVisionWorks.com. It only takes 30 minutes to get started!
In this week’s video blog our expert guide, Don Hadley, talks about the importance and critical pieces when working with Job Descriptions. Most job descriptions use very broad language, are not specific and are difficult to measure. When we work with organizations we ensure that the following pieces are a part of Job Descriptions: List all of the activities or tasks that must be accomplished Separate the List into 6 -9 Key Deliverables (Why do they get paid?) and Core […]
I heard someone say in a meeting that creativity is developing something that was not previously in existence. It does not necessarily mean a new product or brand new idea. It may be a system or process for doing something. It may be an approach to reminding employees of how to do a job more safely. It may be a way of keeping your company values at the forefront. It may be a repackaging of a checklist so it is […]
In this week’s video blog our expert guide, Don Hadley, discusses how to help organizations prepare for the financial impacts that current and upcoming legislation from state and federal governments will have. One of the critical steps in preparing for these is to take a closer look at your organization’s financial proforma. When we at AVW work on proformas with our clients, we are currently recommending adding a 5-7% increase into all labor costs due to regulations. One impact our […]
You cannot out think a man who does not think. There is so much focus on financial capital, yet it can be forgotten that most businesses start with human capital (which is both physical and emotional capital), built on spiritual capital which then creates intellectual capital. Financial capital is a byproduct. In second generation businesses and in wealthy families, the focus can become on money; whereas the focus should be: How do we keep building and improving our physical, emotional, […]
So many times in business we work hard to learn skills, to absorb information, to reorganize and make efficient all of our systems. Yet it seems so many of us and those around us do not feel complete, fully engaged with the world, and living a great life! I am persuaded that one of the biggest reasons this is true is that we all have plans to train ourselves and others around us intellectually, yet we do not intentionally develop […]
If leaders take the time and risk to develop values and beliefs in the people around them, in their teams and their culture, it may seem to start slow at first, but eventually a strong, enduring passion grows that will affect behaviors in powerful ways. The leader will not have to be present, yet the beliefs will lead to values to feelings to thoughts to words to actions. The result will be tremendous character and ultimately their destiny. The above […]
Early in England’s war against Napoleon (1805-1807), Sir John Moore had to engage Napoleon in Spain, who had 200,000 troops, with only 30,000 troops. Napoleon was close to dominating Spain, but Sir John drew Napoleon away from Madrid and kept Napoleon from finalizing his conquest. (Flickr – Andy Brill – from a painting by John Gilbert, engraved by A. Warren) As […]