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Making Change Through Quality by Tommy Spaulding, Business Speaker
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Whenever I visit with the principal of a high school, I make it a point to ask one unusual question: What do you do with the change?
Just about every high school in America has a line item in its budget for vending machines. Those machines might offer Coke, they might offer Pepsi, or they might offer vitamin water. But whatever they offer, they dispense only when students, faculty or staff deposit the required amount of change. And that change adds up. Read the rest of this entry »
How To Make Better Individual Decisions
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
The latest issue of a national weekly newspaper recently arrived in my mailbox with the cover story: “The World’s Most Admired CEO’s.” The headline prompted me to recall a recent study suggesting that nearly 90% of common stock investors will make their investment decisions based solely on their perceived abilities of a company’s CEO.
This begs the question: “Can we put too much confidence in our own intuition or the wisdom of just one person, one expert, or one consultant when we make business decisions?”
Individual decisions are largely based on a limited scope of information. No matter how smart an individual is, they are likely to make erroneous business decisions at some point. The greater the volume of decisions one makes, the greater the probability that one will make miserable decisions. Read the rest of this entry »