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People @ Work

business support team
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We used to talk a lot about how to provide excellent customer service.  When you’re running a business and you are processing, say, 250,000 transactions, you’re still going to have 25 unhappy people if you operate at a 99.99% satisfaction rate.  To that person, they don’t care that you got the other hundreds of thousands of transactions right – you have a failure rate of 100% as far as they are concerned. Continue reading

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Masters of War

I’m a big Bob Dylan fan (yes, another of the 25 things you don’t know about me). While he’s not always easy to appreciate, I don’t see how anyone can argue about his place in American music. In fact, I always use him as the acid test when people start discussing how “big” a particular artist is. The test is simple – my grandchildren’s children will still hear and be familiar with the songs of Bob Dylan as we are with the music of Bach or Irving Berlin. Can we say that about whomever we’re discussing? Continue reading

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Clarence

Birdseye Jungle Shapes Chicken & Sweetcorn
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Seems like we always do a food topic here on Fridays.  Today there just happens to be one that coincides with this date.  You see, today is the anniversary of the day Clarence Birdseye started to sell prepackaged frozen food for the first time, in Springfield, Massachusetts.  That’s right – Birdseye isn’t just a brand name by happenstance – the brand is named after the man who invented the commercial freezing process and perfected the process known as anhydrous freezing. Continue reading

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