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Professional education is the most important ingredient in corporate development. Today`s workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets...if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully.
Each year, one-third of the Gross National Product goes toward cleaning up problems, damages and the high costs of doing either nothing or the wrong things. Half of that amount goes toward some form of persuasion,
This article has interesting roots. I conceptualized and wrote it originally back in 1967 but cannot find a copy among my 2,000+ clippings filed away.
Knowing how much Dottie Walters likes quotes, I jotted down a few remarks while my wife and I watched a Charlie Chan movie marathon recently. Dottie asked for more, as a column. Therefore, I have reconstructed my 1967 article especially for Sharing Ideas. The fortune cookie style sayings of ace detective Charlie Chan are more than
Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code allows you to roll the gain from the sale of your old property over to your new property without paying tax. To accomplish this rollover, there are six easy steps you must follow:
Step #1 -Both the old property you are selling and the new property you are buying must be held for investment. This requirement is defined quite broadly; therefore, you may sell one kind of investment property and buy a different kind of investment
Quick: Think of three characteristics, good or bad, that a colleague would use to describe you to someone you don't know. (Seriously. Before you continue reading, think of the first three things that come to mind.)
What did you think of? Perhaps words like reliable, hard-working, fast learner or upbeat popped into your head. Maybe (if you were honest with yourself) descriptions such as lazy, scatter-brained, aggressive or inconsistent also came to mind.
One of my clients is MetLife. Specifically, I teach their annuity wholesalers how to show their professional credibility. Most wholesalers are unwelcome interruptions to their prospects. That's because they don't know how to prove their credibility. However, if they learn how to be seen as truly credible professionals, their prospects are much more receptive to their ideas and suggestions.
This works exactly the same way with producers as it does for wholesalers. Credibility is the key