by Patti Blackstaffe | Feb 12, 2010 | Business, Leadership, Management
Welcome to Erin Schreyer as our guest writer of today’s post. February is Community month at Strategic Sense and last post described an example of a CEO who builds community through his kind actions, this post has a few examples of how community can begin with...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Feb 10, 2010 | Business, Leadership
It is in modelling character that employees learn what kind of a culture they are working within. And the CEO is always the best model for defining a culture. In a phone call with a friend this morning, he shared a story from his new job. The first thing he said was,...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Feb 4, 2010 | Business, Leadership, Management, Training
A small growing child lives a lifetime in a few precious years, they feel like everything takes too darned long. Perhaps it’s because they’re always flitting and dancing and bouncing with all the excitement life has to offer. For them, everything is a new adventure...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Feb 2, 2010 | Business, Communication, Customer Service, Leadership, Management
I love candied ginger; it’s spicy and sweet at the same time. I like to add it to salads and recipes. What makes it different is it doesn’t have the “jelly feel” like other sugared candies. I was thinking about that and how we tend to add sugar to more sugar all the...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Jan 22, 2010 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Management
I just read Gary Vaynerchuk’s book “Crush It” and many of his messages resonated with me in terms of the priorities I live by as well as the priorities I ask my clients to adopt. …”love your family, work hard, live your passion” Using that as a filter for each...
