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Texas Energy Screw-up and Small Business Impairments

Martinka Consulting

The headlines about the Texas freeze and energy disaster caught my attention. The bottom line is Texas officials had been warned many times over the last 30 years about their energy infrastructure not being winterproof. The post Texas Energy Screw-up and Small Business Impairments appeared first on Martinka Consulting.

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10 Ways To Making Money And A Difference as a Consultant & Coach (Number 2 Is My Favorite)

Consulting Matters

Consultants do not work harder than their clients – they have to bring the energy and sponsorship of the work. Our clients have to bring the energy for their own change that we can support. This perspective is what will keep us in the game over the long-term as we need boundaries to protect our energy and compassion.

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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

This is extremely frustrating for the customer as she has to spend more time and energy explaining her case to multiple departments and wait uncertainly as each one tries to push responsibility on to the other. Improve your processes and invest in technology. You don’t empathise with the customer.

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8 Issues that May Cause You to Lose Customers

Tom Spencer

This is extremely frustrating for the customer as she has to spend more time and energy explaining her case to multiple departments and wait uncertainly as each one tries to push responsibility on to the other. Improve your processes and invest in technology. You don’t empathise with the customer.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

With training for multiple process improvement action teams, they won the JD Power Award. Great team leaders creatively renew the energy and focus of this team, this takes reiteration. (See this– SPICA: Team Management Skills. ) For example, one organization I worked with had no training and were last in their market.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

With training for multiple process improvement action teams, they won the JD Power Award. Great team leaders creatively renew the energy and focus of this team, this takes reiteration. (See this– SPICA: Team Management Skills. ) For example, one organization I worked with had no training and were last in their market.

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How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business

The process improves farm productivity and reduces input waste by using analytics to facilitate data-driven farming practices for small-scale farmers. And SunCulture , which sells drip irrigation kits that use solar energy to pump water from any source, has made irrigation affordable.

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