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Stop trying to make the workplace fun. Instead focus on expressing the MISSION and PURPOSE of your company. |
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Have a break room with a computer, a phone, and a sofa. Everywhere else is 100% workspace. |
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Be yourself! Flaws and all. Hire thick skinned employees who can handle you at your extremes. |
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Make your most important jobs BETTER jobs — by making that job more profitable so you can afford to pay well, etc. |
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Educate your employees during orientation that THEIR job is to make themselves so valuable to the company (profit-wise) that the company wouldn’t want to see them go. |
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Make every job a profit center by redefining the job & adding marketing-related goals. |
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Be on the lookout for excuses… they indicate “activity” without “results”. |
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If an employee is not an “A” player, redefine the job description, develop the employee aggressively, demote employee to a better matched position, or free up that employee to seek a better match at a different company. |
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Find a way to use the combination of MEASUREMENT + COMPETITION to motivate your employees. This requires public display of individual performance. Your best employees will love it. Your worst employees will quit. |
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Consider buying a 50” HDTV for the office that constantly displays employee numbers. It’ll cost you just $150 a month or so on credit, and the rewards will be exponential. |
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Systemize all the small things in operations manuals. |
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Apply the 5-step system below to get SPEED into your business model. |
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