Posted on June 27, 2008 by Randy Goruk
What a great story … senior management with a high level of character and integrity. It’s no wonder they had a successful business and loyal employee base.
Read it here – smile and learn.
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Posted on June 27, 2008 by Randy Goruk
I remember a board member for a company I once worked with say “the true character of a company is measured by how they bury their dead”. He was giving us – the senior management team – a little advice on being careful and respectful of how we were about to deal with pending cutbacks in overhead.
His [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2008 by Randy Goruk
A couple of months ago I was invited to be a judge at an International Career Conference for DECA.
DECA is an international association of high school and college students studying marketing, management and entrepreneurship in business, finance, hospitality and marketing sales and service.
My role was to provide real world evaluations of high school student business skills [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2008 by Randy Goruk
I came across a letter written to the Edmonton Journal by a youth football player. The headline read Benched and Defeated.
As I read it I felt bad for the kid … nobody deserves to be treated the way he claims to have been treated. Particularly from someone he was relying on to improve his skills [...]
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