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Hi Mr. Ritter

Dreary Doctor's Office

In my mind, the three words in the title of today’s post are sort of the consumer equivalent of three other words: “We Love You.”  Let me explain and let’s see if you get to the same place.

There’s no business with which one does business that’s more intimate or important than your doctor.  I’m sure we’d all like to think of those practices as something other than a business but let’s be real; and as such, they need to consider the same things all of our businesses do with respect to customer service.  I hasten to add, by the way, that in their case, lousy customer service can result in consequences far worse than the water company misplacing your account info.

In any event, I have a great side by side comparison  for you to ponder. Continue reading

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Leading Yourself

We chose leaders in government for the next couple of years yesterday.  It’s an interesting process in our country, to say the least.  We could probably have a really energized debate about what’s good and bad in the folks who emerged from the election as winners and losers, but regardless of that they now have to lead and not, as our President remarked on the campaign trail, stand around drinking a Slurpee, no matter which side they’re on.  Which of course puts business thinking into my head. Continue reading

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Election Day

An image of the American Flag as hung vertically

I love Election Day, mostly because the incessant political ads stop hitting every screen I have, my snail-mail box, my telephone, and the radio. Hopefully these folks will clear the roadways of their campaign detritus as well.
Of course, I love it for other reasons tool, mostly the big one – the right to vote is the single biggest freedom we have – if we can’t vote, all of the other freedoms are imperiled.  Hopefully you’ve exercised that right and no complaining about results or policy if you haven’t.

Even though we don’t do politics here, let me also add that I am ashamed that someone working on behalf of either a party or candidate would engage in “voter suppression” activities.  They’re vile, un-American, and unfortunately they’re very real and going on all over today.  Why would anyone think they can claim a victory of any sort having done something to keep voters from expressing their will?  Which leads to today’s business point. Continue reading

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