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Setting the Table

January 21, 2019/in Extraordinary Customer/Client Service/by Tom Doescher

If any family members or good friends were to come to me and say they want to open a restaurant, I would beg them to pick another business. But Danny Meyer, owner of the Union Square Cafe in Manhattan and author of Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business, has somehow survived — […]

Alive at Work

January 7, 2019/in Nuggets and Encouragement Regarding Strategy and Focus/by Tom Doescher

Really, is that possible? To be alive at work? I know lots of business owners who wish their associates would share more ideas and be more creative. In fact, I’ve probably felt that way over the years myself. In his book, Alive at Work, author Daniel Cable offers some suggestions for those of us who […]

The Stack 9 Hard Questions

December 3, 2018/in Nuggets and Encouragement Regarding Strategy and Focus/by Tom Doescher

In my last post, I summarized highlights from The Great Game of Business, written by business owner Jack Stack. In this post, I’ve listed nine tough rhetorical questions that remind me of Marcus Buckingham’s 12 (now 8) Questions. Here goes: What are you personally giving to the people you manage? Do you spend as much […]

The Great Game of Business

November 12, 2018/in Nuggets and Encouragement Regarding Strategy and Focus/by Tom Doescher

In my recent post, I mentioned I was going to read The Great Game of Business, written by Jack Stack. Although it’s a book about Open Book Management (OBM), it was way more than that. Stack details what happened when he and his buddies —non-college-educated, blue-collar people — purchased a failing International Harvester plant where they […]

It’s All About Jobs, Part 2

October 22, 2018/in Nuggets and Encouragement Regarding Strategy and Focus/by Tom Doescher

In my last blog, I discussed the commitment Barbara and I have to helping business owners create good jobs. I mentioned Defending The Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy, written by Rev. Robert Sirico, a Catholic priest and co-founder and president of The Acton Institute. Fr. Robert comments on many topics, but […]