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The Achiever Newsletter

Welcome to our newsletter, The Achiever. We have selected articles from previous issues of our newsletter. More feature articles are regularly added to this page. Please also visit our blog for frequently updated features.

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Blog

AchieveMax® News

bullet Welcome to the AchieveMax® Blog
bullet Professional Speaker Harry K. Jones Quoted in Recent Credit Union Publications
bullet Is Leadership on your Christmas List?

Business Briefs

bullet Business Briefs - March 15, 2007
bullet Business Briefs - March 29, 2007
bullet Business Briefs - Wal-Mart Regains Title!
bullet Microsoft Digs Itself a Hole
bullet Business Briefs
bullet Southwest Airlines: Destined to Crash or Gain Altitude?
bullet Business Briefs - August 15, 2007
bullet Are You Ready for Some “CHAOS”?
bullet Today’s Leaders Must Develop a Sense of Urgency
bullet Happy Customer Service Week!
bullet Globalization Simplified
bullet Delegate, Empower, or Do It Yourself? (The Universal Challenge in Leadership Development)
bullet Fuel for Thought
bullet Business Briefs - January 2008
bullet Alright Already! Enough with CHANGE!
bullet Business Briefs
bullet Sears/K-Mart Update
bullet Business Briefs - February 2008
bullet Business Briefs - March 2008
bullet Big Changes are Coming! Grab a Seat! Buckle Up! Hang on Tight!
bullet Factual March Madness
bullet Strategy for Challenging Economic Times
bullet Wendy Weeps
bullet Middle-Management Crisis Escalates
bullet MBWA (Management By Wandering Around) Still Proves to Be a Strong Strategy
bullet Whew! Let’s Take a News Vacation
bullet National Belt-tightening Continues

Fact-A-Day from Harry K.

bullet Fact-A-Day from Harry K.  (More than a year's worth of "Fact-A-Day" material is available at this link.)

The Fountain of Wisdom

bullet The Fountain of Wisdom
bullet The Fountain of Wisdom
bullet The Fountain of Wisdom
bullet “Stop-Doing” List Examples
bullet The Power of Knowledge
bullet Give a Little - Get a Lot!
bullet Three Steps to Success
bullet “Slow Down, You Move Too Fast …”

Generational Gems for Future Leaders

bullet New Category: Generational Gems for Future Leaders
bullet The Starfish Story
bullet The Parable of the Pebbles
bullet The Turn of the Tide
bullet Making Your Waves Amid the Tides
bullet The Never-ending Story of Change
bullet How to Be More Effective with People
bullet The Paradox of Our Age
bullet Functional Blindness
bullet Always Done It that Way?
bullet Everyone Plays a Crucial Role
bullet Prepare for the Stressful Holiday Season
bullet Mentoring Magic: Take a Moment - Make a Difference
bullet What We Don’t Learn from the Past, We’re Bound to Repeat!
bullet Just a Little More Initiative
bullet The Monk and the Travelers
bullet If the Horse Is Dead: Dismount!
bullet Can’t See the Forest for the Trees?
bullet From the Mouths of Babes …
bullet Prime the Pump … for Success!
bullet Kindergarten Kandor
bullet Acres of Diamonds - Start Digging
bullet Developing Employee Potential
bullet Stop - Look - Listen … While You Still Can!
bullet Do Goals Really Matter?
bullet Flexibility, Negotiation, Compromise - Good Leadership Traits
bullet The Chicken or The Egg?
bullet Possibility Thinking!
bullet The Guy in the Glass
bullet A Champion’s Philosophy
bullet If I Had It to Do Over
bullet Ancient Secret Finally Revealed
bullet Pass the Torch
bullet Adjust Your Focus
bullet Is Your Echo Positive?
bullet Payback Is Hell!
bullet Pause to Say “Thanks”
bullet Ya Get What Cha Give!

Is It Just Me?

bullet Is It Just Me?
bullet Should Focus Move to “Worst Practices”?
bullet Has the U.S. Business Scene Run Amuck?
bullet Is It Just Me?
bullet Border Business
bullet Does Circuit City Carry Calculators?
bullet Are We Becoming a Nation of the Naive, the Apathetic, or the Ignorant?
bullet Circuit City Ordeal Continues
bullet A Non Book Review
bullet Sears-Kmart: Comeback or Deja Vu?
bullet Is It Just Me?
bullet Gender Gap in Pay, Recognition and Rewards
bullet Is It Just Me?
bullet Is It Just Me? - Education or Ignorance?
bullet Limp the Unfriendly Skies
bullet More Obvious Questions
bullet Lost Luggage Figures Continue to Soar
bullet Dire Need for Leadership
bullet VETTE-tacular vs. Feasible
bullet Even More Obvious Questions
bullet Additional Obvious Questions
bullet Can We Afford a Penny?
bullet Are We Going Crazy?
bullet Obvious Questions - The List Grows
bullet Surplus Obvious Questions
bullet Are We Just Talking Change?
bullet Never a Shortage of Obvious Questions
bullet Mass Media Betrays Citizenry
bullet Obvious Questions Abound
bullet Obvious Questions - They Just Keep Coming
bullet A Bottomless Pit of Obvious Questions

Little-known Facts

bullet Little-known Facts About Well-known Leaders - Bill Gates
bullet Little-known Facts About Well-known Leaders - Meg Whitman
bullet Little-known Facts About Well-known Leaders - Ray Kroc
bullet Little-known Facts About Well-known Businesses - Procter and Gamble
bullet Little-known Facts About Well-known Businesses - United Technologies Corporation
bullet Little-known Facts About Well-known Businesses - ACIPCO
bullet Little-known Facts About Well-known Businesses - Steve & Barry’s
bullet Little-known Facts About Well-known Leaders - Lee Iacocca
bullet Little-known Facts About Well-known Businesses - Two Men and a Truck®
bullet Little-known Facts About Well-known Leaders - Howard Schultz
bullet Little-known Facts About Well-known Businesses - Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation
bullet Little-known Facts about Well-known Leaders - Larry Page and Sergey Brin
bullet Little-known Facts about Well-known Leaders - Warren Buffett

Look-Listen-Learn

bullet New Formula for Business and Personal Success
bullet A Fitting Tribute
bullet Inspirational Stories for Today’s Youth
bullet Football Fiasco Is Big Business
bullet Good Customer Service = Customer Retention = Great Profits!
bullet Don’t Get Baby Boomed out of Business!
bullet Exceptional Customer Service Again Threatened
bullet Did the Media Miss a Leadership Message in the Super Bowl?
bullet Jet Black and Blue!
bullet Sudden Focus on Organizational Creativity: Seniors Dance Out of the Box!
bullet Untold Treasures Await Us. Stop and Smell the Roses.
bullet Michelangelo: A Man for the Ages
bullet Lift a Couch … Find a Fortune!
bullet A World of Diversity
bullet Everything Is Business
bullet Feedback Isn’t Always Valuable or Necessary
bullet Demise of “The Big Three”?
bullet Money Mania!
bullet The Wizard of Odds
bullet A Guaranteed Smile
bullet A Challenge to Credit Unions
bullet Leadership Lessons We MUST Pass On
bullet Generation Communication Gap: Do You Really Know that “Generation Y” College Freshman You Call Family?
bullet Low Cost of Creativity
bullet Think About Perspective
bullet The Miracle of You
bullet The Miracle of You - Part II
bullet Shock Your Customers
bullet Wal-Mart - A Learning Experience
bullet The Power of Thought

Meet the Authors

bullet New Feature Offers Insights on Accomplished Authors - Ken Blanchard
bullet Napoleon Hill
bullet Dr. Denis Waitley
bullet Andy Andrews
bullet Og Mandino

Midnight Muses

bullet New Category: Midnight Muses
bullet President Oprah?
bullet A Taste of Stark Reality

Moment with Melanie

bullet How Good Customer Service Could Send Your Customer to the Competitor
bullet A Real Time Management Saver: Viewing RSS Blog Feeds in My Yahoo!
bullet A Time Management Saver: Viewing RSS Feeds in a Google Personalized Home Page
bullet Five Tips for Wedding Project Management
bullet Partnering: You’re Only as Strong as Your Weakest Link
bullet Beginner Business Blog: Top Five Tips for Starting Your WordPress Business Blog
bullet Beginner Business Blog: Top Webmaster Plugins for Your WordPress Business Blog
bullet Beginner Business Blog: Top Reader Plugins for Your WordPress Business Blog
bullet When the Employee Understands Customer Satisfaction and Service Better than the Manager
bullet An Inspirational Family Project

Need a Lift?

bullet Today’s Inspirational Youth Sparks Hope for a Positive Tomorrow
bullet What Happened to “Americans”?
bullet What Goes Around, Comes Around
bullet I Quit!
bullet Take Time to Appreciate
bullet “TRUE GRIT” — A Winning Philosophy
bullet ESPY Awards Reveal Inspiring Antidote
bullet Loss of a Legend
bullet Communication Solutions with a Smile

On the Road Again

bullet Take Time to Look Outside Your World
bullet On the Road Again
bullet Feels Like “Déjà View”
bullet The Last Ride
bullet A Team with a Head Start
bullet Gas at 17 Cents a Gallon?
bullet Creativity Reigns Again
bullet A Beacon of Leadership
bullet A Culture of Customer Service
bullet Success Is in the Reframe
bullet 9-11 - This Scar Won’t Heal!

Out-of-the-Box Thinking

bullet Out-of-the-Box Thinking
bullet Tapping Potential
bullet Where’s My Pizza?
bullet Are You Creative?
bullet History in the Making - "Bites or Bytes"?
bullet How the Cookie Crumbles
bullet Individual Creativity
bullet Got an Idea? Passionately Pursue It!
bullet Grilled Cheese?
bullet Time to Flip Flop?
bullet Create a Breakthrough
bullet Caffeine in the Shower
bullet Take Me out to the Ball Game
bullet Who Would Have Ever Dreamed?
bullet The Wisdom of the Towel
bullet Thinking out of the Shoe Box
bullet Simplicity Reigns Supreme
bullet Make the Right Turn to Save Gas
bullet Don’t Underestimate UPS

Project Management

bullet Project Scope Creep
bullet Project Hope Creep
bullet Project Effort Creep
bullet Project Feature Creep

Resources

bullet J.D. Power and Associates
bullet Read 52 Books Next Year!
bullet Guaranteed to Save Time
bullet Young Magazine Finds Growing Audience
bullet SoYouWanna: Unique Site Offers a Wealth of Information
bullet Tips for Choosing a Great Book
bullet Fast Company: A Vital Voice of the Changing Business Industry