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This is Dave Brock’s Blog.
It offers my views on a variety of business, sales, marketing, and leadership topic. My goal is to make a difference for you, the reader, in both your professional and personal lives.
Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve become very interested in the concept of Micro Improvements. I’ve written about the concepts in these posts: Plateauing and The Importance Of Small Changes In Improvng Performance. For the last couple of months, I’ve been using myself as a guinea pig in making micro improvements in my own performance. It’s been a fascinating journey–both in the improvements I’m seeing and what I am learning in the process. I thought I’d give a progress report. In one of those past posts, I mentioned I have implemented an adaptation of the questions Marshall […]
Read MoreI’m inundated with requests to preview and review books. Unfortunately, there are just too many out there, many that are relatively unspectacular. As a result, I focus on a few, high quality books. Several months ago, Kelly Riggs asked me to take a look at Counter Mentor Leadership. I reviewed the early draft, written by Kelly and his son, Robby. Several things resonated with me! It’s a straightforward, no nonsense book. There aren’t any claims of magic, no “Easy” buttons, no miracle techniques. We’ve seen too many, “get rich quick” books on leadership that only succeed in getting the author […]
Read MoreI don’t know why I picked up the phone, I knew better. It was one of those calls, you know what I’m talking about, the area code and the first three digits of the phone number exactly matched mine, but it was a number I didn’t know. I knew it was a sales person, leveraging local presence, trying to make me think he was in my neighborhood. Ironically, I was a continent away, it was the middle of the night. But for some reason, I was now awake, I knew what I was about to encounter, I answered the phone. […]
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