Family fears Mac Haik shooting suspect could bond out

SPRING -- As a boy, Rob Kuentz looked up to his dad. He even dressed like him and dreamed of one day working at a car dealership.

“I have pictures of him everywhere he went,” said his mother, Sandy Kuentz. “He had to have that tie on because he was going to sell cars.”

By 30, Kuentz was a supervisor at a Mac Haik dealership. He married his high school sweetheart, Heather, and had…

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Brand You: Never Trash Your Competitors

So many of the things that are important are pretty darn simple-minded truisms. And I’ve 

spent the last 35 years of my life stating and re-stating, often in very high volumes, the

obvious.

And so, here goes another one: Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, regardless of the

circumstance, regardless of your personal experience, never…

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Facebook makes us smile, shudder, squeeze into photographs so we can see ourselves online later, fret when no one responds to our witty remarks, snicker over who got fat after high school, pause during weddings to update our relationship status to Married or codify a break-up by setting our status back to Single.

- TIME, May ‘10

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Sydney, the CEO of a mid-size advertising company was sitting in her office, when she got a call from one of her vendors. Her sales rep, Mike wanted to talk about his new offering. Sydney was busy and didn’t have time to talk right then. She was interested in hearing more, but didn’t have the time at that moment. She politely asked Mike if they could…

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One evolutionary reason for magical thinking is just our tendency to see patterns in the world and to read meaning into them.  We’re so good at it that we often read meaning into patterns that really isn’t’ there.  So we see faces in the clouds or we hear messages in records played backwards.  We tend to see connections between our thoughts and things outside in the world and see correlation and even causation there.  So for instance, if you think…

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" describes "cases in which people act as if they erroneously believe that their action influences the outcome, even though they do not really hold that belief"

 

Did the best Salesman in the World use 'Magical Thinking' ?

 

Sold more retail "big ticket" items…

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Now that the Grand Old Party is officially nominating their choice, Governor Mitt Romney, for President of the United States and current President Barak Obama is defending his record of leading the United States the last three years; we are faced with a decision to choose who best fit to lead our country. 

America has a vast history of leaders who have embarked on the challenge which affects many lives from small businesses with less than five employees, large corporations with tens…

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What is it that is stopping you from going further? 

What is stopping you from helping more people?

If you're afraid, what are you afraid of?

The most obvious thing is, your afraid to lose something. You're afraid to lose your status, your comfort, your money and maybe even a few friends.

So you go nowhere, you let life take you wherever it is taking you at its own pace.

If you're a person with a good work ethic and normal intelligence your probably doing…

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Guidance comes to us in all forms of inspiring moments. We can be inspired by a loss that produces an epiphany and clarity.  Sometimes that inspiration comes under the auspices of adversity. These select snippets in time are what define us as individuals and professionals. 

Elite professionals…

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If it was easy hitting your biggest goal, A football field would have been made only 20 yards long my brothers and sisters.......

Over the years I have made plenty of mistakes. Rather than keep track of the mistakes, I just made a list of the things I learned.



If you are an aspiring Manager, print this and keep it handy. You might find a helpful thought in there to use and make a difference.



Here is the list as it stands now. I have made changes as I learned something new. Hope you can use it to do something different or make a change.



Rules for Managers



1. You get all of the… Continue

Historically, during the week between Christmas and New Years, we all breathe a huge sigh of relief that the Christmas rush is over, and we then reflect over the success or failure of our business over the past year.  A meeting with Comptroller/CPA Firm usually takes place, where the true profits are discovered after taxes, bonuses, LIFO…

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