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Top NINE Excuses For Not Making Quota
Below are ten "reasons" that sales reps give when they don't make their numbers.  However, only one of them is a real reason, the other nine are just excuses. Can you spot the valid reason hidden amidst the excuses? [poll id="170"] Click here for...
Tags: Excuse, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2009-04-09
We're Still Making Excuses for Weak Leadership
I'm tired of people making excuses for weak leadership, mismanagement, and essentially no corporate governance. We, as managers, can't make excuses for ourselves. Instead, we have to admit our mistakes, learn from them, and move on. If we can't hold ourselves accountable, we deserve what happens to us and to free market capitalism....
Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mismanagement, Excuse, Corporate Governance, Leadership, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Management, Steve Tobak
Blog posts 2009-04-06
7171: Excuses, Excuses.
The Big Tent published a new perspective from Hadji Williams. Wonder if Williams will inspire an Army to stand with him. Why Can't Ethnic-Owned Shops Be Agencies of Record? Hadji Williams Offers Six Popular Excuses By Hadji Williams ...
Tags: Advertisement, Agency
News items 2009-10-13
Video: Enough of Your Excuses!
Video: Enough of Your Excuses!RE: Video: Enough of Your Excuses!QUOTE: It's these sort of videos that give selling a bad name and good people the wrong impression. Well, I disagree. Without motivation, you've got nothing. And it's hard to keep motivated -- even to learn good sales skills...
Tags: Corporate communications, video, motivation
Discussion threads 2008-08-13
10 Best Excuses for Coming to Work Late
Hot on the heels of my post about whether occasional tardiness is forgivable, here's a handy list of excuses to pull out the next time you show up late at the office. I should point out that while these excuses, as presented by CareerBuilder's Rosemary Haefner on...
Tags: Excuse, Litigation, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, CC Holland
Blog posts 2009-02-18
Real Managers Don't Make Excuses
When dogs screw up, they hang their head and tuck their tail between their legs in admission of guilt. When wild animals screw up, it can be fatal. No excuses. It's human to make excuses, but nothing is more success and career limiting. Great managers and successful business people don't...
Tags: Excuse, Professional Development, Career, Steve Tobak
Blog posts 2009-06-30
'No Excuses' is fascinating read
NO EXCUSES: CONCESSIONS OF A SERIAL CAMPAIGNER, by Robert Shrum, Simon and Schuster, 521 pages, $28 All kinds of books about politics are coming out in this pre- election year. Some are hastily-written and not very good, some are good -- and a few, such as Robert Shrum's...
Tags: E-mail, Governor, Outsourcing, Pennsylvania, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-08-19
'No excuses' for staying in New Orleans: top Bush aide
AUSTIN, Texas AFP — A top aide to US President George W. Bush warned Monday of "weaknesses" in New Orleans' levee system and said anyone who stayed in the city in the face of Hurricane Gustav had "no excuses." "There should not be any excuses. If people stayed in...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bush, Katrina, MARKETING
Research articles 2008-09-01
2 Common Excuses That Prevent People From Planning
Did you know that over 90 percent of the people in this country do not spend anytime planning their day? It has been said that people will spend more time planning a business trip or a family vacation, than they will plan for their lives. Are you one of them?...
Tags: Excuse, Vocaboly.com
White papers 2006-02-01
Are You Making These E-Commerce Excuses? (Part 1)
This paper explains excuses and remedies for E-Commerce. Just like any other kind of goal, Internet marketing goals require action. E-commerce success doesn't happen overnight. What do you plan to do to make it happen? As the old adage goes, "If you do the same thing you've been doing, you'll...
Tags: E-business, Jamila White & Associates, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
White papers 2008-01-01
Fujitsu Launches Three New PrintPartner Network Laser Printers; Versatile Printers Offer Low Cost of Ownership with No Excuses Warranty
SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 17, 1997--Fujitsu Computer Products connectivity ease, high quality printing and Fujitsu's No Excuses warranty to minimize downtime.
Tags: Fujitsu Ltd., printer
Research articles 1997-11-17
Fujitsu expands No Excuses service with extensive scanner support program; ScanCare delivers preventive maintenance to production scanner users
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--April 14, 1997--Fujitsu Computer Products of America today broadened its industry-leading No ExcusesSM program by announcing ScanCare, the industry's first factory-authorized scanner preventive maintenance program.
Tags: Fujitsu Ltd., scanner
Research articles 1997-04-14
Bad Boy Unveils Debut Single From "Making The Band 4"; "Exclusive (No Excuses)" Features All Six Finalists Showcased on MTV's Smash Reality Series; Bryan Michael Cox-Produced Track Goes on Sale at All Digital Outlets Next Tuesday, Octo
Bad Boy Records has announced the upcoming release of "Exclusive No Excuses," the eagerly anticipated debut single from the finalists featured on the hit MTV series, "Making The Band 4." The track -- produced by multiple Grammy Award-winner Bryan Michael Cox (Usher, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey) -- will be...
Tags: MTV
Research articles 2007-09-27
Pentagon gives no excuses for suspect treatment; senators aghast
WASHINGTON AFP — The US military offered no excuses for interrogation techniques used on a Saudi terror suspect at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying his questioning followed a "detailed plan" and that prevention of new attacks justified the means. The retort followed publication of a secret document detailing the military's...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Leadership, Pentagon, senator
Research articles 2005-06-12
No excuses for Zidane says Materazzi
ROME AFP — Marco Materazzi said Lilian Thuram should not make excuses for Zinedine Zidane's headbutt after the French defender described Italy's Materazzi as "an illness that should not exist." France captain Zidane was sent off near the end of extra-time in the World Cup final, which Italy eventually...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, CAREER, Italy
Research articles 2006-07-18
No excuses for failure in US bid to reclaim global hoops throne
SAITAMA, Japan AFP — Dwyane Wade knows that when you have no crown, you take no breaks and you make no excuses. Wade's backcourt heroics sparked the Miami Heat to a National Basketball Association title in June and his efforts here are expected to help the United States reclaim a...
Tags: game, Germany, NBA, team
Research articles 2006-08-28
No more excuses, UN drugs chief says after record opium rise
KABUL AFP — With opium cultivation at an all-time high and even out of control in parts of Afghanistan, excuses for not cracking down on the trade are beginning to wear thin, the UN drugs chief said in an interview. Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on...
Tags: Afghanistan, Agence France-Presse, Government, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2006-09-03
Excuses of serial confessors wear thin.
Byline: Narelle Hooper Jul 31, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Ernst & Young has monitored profit warning trends between 1999 and 2005. In the six ...
Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, National Australia Bank
Research articles 2005-07-31
Who gives a flying flag? The smearing of Joe Wilson, the excuses for Karl Rove: for the pundits of the right, national security is just a bumper sticker.(MEDIA)
LOOKING AT THE REACTIONS OF THE right-wingers to l'affaire Novak-Rove-Wilson-Plame, you'd have to conclude that, for them, national security is a sometime thing--a talking point or a symbolic flourish, but not a real-world imperative involving actual lives, dangers, and government workings. The smears and (to be...
Tags: CAREER, CIA, Iraq, MARKETING, media, officer, Republican
Research articles 2005-09-01
Hobbled D-Will has no excuses after ugly loss
The groin he initially strained back in mid-February probably is hurting more than anyone will ever know. That's because even if it is, Deron Williams -- unless he simply can't go -- will never acknowledge as much. "I'm not one to make excuses," the Jazz's starting...
Tags: Games, NBA
Research articles 2007-04-15
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