Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

If you’ve owned a company for any length of time you realize a majority of your challenges involve people. You need to get your people to do what you want them to do. You also need your employees to “get along”. I’ve realized is that it’s...

Facebook vs. Google – Insurance Agents Listen Up

Check out this article on CNN Money regarding Facebook and how it is taking on Google. In my mind Google is more reactive, it just serves up content that it posted on the web once it spiders said content and puts it in the vast index. Facebook is different. It’s...

The Worst Risk is to Do Nothing

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but EVERYONE is on Facebook. According to recent estimates, Facebook has about 400 million users! The modern consumer is spending a lot of time on Facebook and they are using their mobile devices to do it. Sumal Mandal,...

What Are You Passionate About?

What are you passionate about? What motivates you to get up in the morning? Why are you doing what you are doing for a career? Would you rather be doing something else? What is that? Every once in a while I think it’s a good idea to ask these questions. We can...

Six Questions Every Organization Must Ask

At Astonish Results we’re always looking to improve our customer’s results. In order to do this we look to answer the following questions: (1)   What Happened? (2)   What is Happening Now? (3)   (If we made no change) What...

Keeping Employees Accountable

I had an epiphany today. If you’ve read my blog before you know that I talk a lot about metrics and their importance in any organization. Let me give you another read world example of what I mean. Every company has problems or areas which need improvement....