Life Coach – "The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success" by Marcus Buckingham

The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success Marcus Buckingham has a very practical “finding your passion” technique that I just started introducing into my life as well as my life coaching client’s lives: “ReMemo – the technique of revealing your strengths using your everyday experiences!” Finding your passion is a matter of spending one…

Business Coach – Customer service presentation for Plato's Closet Reno employees, part 2

Business coach customer service research. I just finished my second customer service presentation for Plato’s Closet Reno employees as part of my continuing business coaching research. Owner, Hillary Schieve, was kind enough to invite me back to present customer service, part 2, and asked when I can present part 3 shortly after we wrapped up….

Business success at Engine Yard due to everyone's efforts to add value to the customer!

My brother, Lance Walley, is a very smart businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of Engine Yard, based in San Francisco, which provides fully-managed Ruby and Rails hosting and deployment. Lance recently mentioned the reason for Engine Yard’s success was due to every employee’s efforts: “I want to note that we wouldn’t be in…

Leadership Conversation at Harvard Business School – Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose (Show Date: Oct 20, 2008): A conversation about leadership (and management) at the Harvard Business School centennial celebration with John Doerr – venture capitalist, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Jeffrey Immelt – chairman and CEO, General Electric, Anand Mahindra – vice-chairman and managing director, Mahindra & Mahindra, Meg Whitman – former CEO, Ebay…

Advertising Age columnist and author of "Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3000," Pete Blackshaw, cited my comment

August 25, 2008 Advertising Age columnist and author of “Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3000” (listening matters, credibility is king, and service is the best form of marketing), Pete Blackshaw, cited my comment along with people at Ogilvy advertising, Edelman PR and Tim Heath, Professor of Marketing, Miami of Ohio. I’m super…