6. Continuous improvement really adds up
"Every signifcant advance
I or my company has ever made
has been evolutionary
rather than revolutionary:
small earned steps
-- not big lucky hits."
- Michael Bloomberg
31. Embroidered shirts and uniforms
Conveys
exclusivity
Says "We value
your eforts"
Signals
membership and
belonging
32. Nothing wrong with personalized choices
Most places charge a
one-time digitization fee
for embroidery, after which
each additional piece
is quite reasonable
38. Are you the nicest monopoly in town?
"In the regulated
utility feld [...]
Berkshire hopes to
be the 'buyer of
choice' of
regulators."
Warren Bufett
FY2008 Letter to
Shareholders
104. High-performance workers vs. managers
"[W]hen a company rewards
the role of manager more
than the act of creating value,
employees strive to become
managers (and increase the
number of people they manage),
even when leading people
isn't their strength."
- Charles Koch
105. Summary
Not everyone wants into this industry
Those who do deserve status
Don't hesitate to make your workforce better
Make sure the community knows why you matter
Never pass up an opportunity to infuence the young
106. Questions?
Thank you for your time and
attention!
Brian Gongol
DJ Gongol & Associates
515-223-4144
www.gongol.net
info@gongol.net
@djgongol on Facebook
and Twitter
107. Credits
All photographs are original work of Brian Gongol
US population pyramid is public-domain work from the Census Bureau:
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2016/06/americas-
age-profle-told-through-population-pyramids.html
Population pyramids for City of Lincoln and Grant County taken from
CensusScope.org
Used per published terms at http://www.censusscope.org/usepolicy.html
Unemployment rate data and chart from the Federal Reserve bank of St. Louis:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
Photo of Bill Clinton from Library of Congress (public domain work):
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95509403/
Copyright reserved; use by others of any images is forbidden without written
permission