5…For Your Friday – 10/21/16

Guten Morgen,

I hope you all are enjoying some crisp fall weather wherever you are.  Fall has arrived here in Austin and it is beautiful.

Some things to check out when you have time…

What one of our competitors is doing:

What is your first impression when you walk into Sears vs. Home Depot vs. Costco vs. J.C. Penney

http://fortune.com/2016/10/10/jcpenney-greeters/http://fortune.com/2016/10/10/jcpenney-greeters/

Great reminder that it’s the small habits repeated over time that generates results (both good and bad results)

https://medium.com/personal-growth/what-you-spend-time-reading-changes-your-brain-ee2ab4f2aa17#.k4ck4jih4

New information is coming at us all the time, from our clients, from our members/customers, from our competitors.  How do we revisit our past decisions based on that info?

http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/213978466/0/sethsblog~Making-a-new-decision-based-on-new-information.html

A podcast that I am enjoying:

Great way to catch up on what happened in the general world of business.  They have a daily version and a weekend version.  I subscribe to the weekend version and listen to it on my weekend runs.

http://www.marketplace.org/podcasts

Quote/Concept that is relevant in the world we operate in:

“Extinction phase – what happens in extinction phase is that you either rapidly adapt and new means of competition are created, or you go extinct”

– Stephen Bird of Citigroup

 

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