Our Year-End Review

<p><strong>The Oval Table Year-End Review</strong></p> <p>.58 <strong>We Proudly Present a Retrospective on Our First Two Seasons</strong></p> <p>We present to you our over arching message as presented by our guests who have based their comments on their years of experience. Enjoy this Year-end buffet of business wisdom from experts, and if you've missed any of our shows, you may want to go back and catch up.</p> <p>Our goal is to present you with a varied set of principles and practices that will help guide you and your business to a high-performance state. Having a dream you believe in. Working smart toward the accomplishment of that dream, is what we have been all about during this whole show series. </p> <p><strong>Our initial question:</strong> How should a business owner or manager be looking at their teams and how should they interact with them?</p> <p><strong>People, Processes and Tools</strong></p> <p><strong>Jesse Stancarone – </strong>Identify what you are trying to achieve, start with the needs of the end user, start at the beginning with the people</p> <p><strong>Bill Macfarlane –</strong> There are certain enablers. The first thing is people, talent. You have got to have the right people, those who will not be awestruck by the numbers of stores or the top line revenue growth.</p> <p><strong>Dr. James Hearn – </strong>When leading in a cris9s or chaotic situation, the first thing you do not think of it as a crisis. It sets up a negative attitude. It is a business problem, and what are you paid for? Solving business problems.</p> <p><strong>Dr.</strong> <strong>James Hearn – </strong>Many leaders can encourage their staff to give them proper feedback on any situation. But you have to listen. Often the staff has great ideas that can come out if you use The Oval Table. But when a leader thinks he is the smartest guy in the room, that can be very dangerous if you don’t listen to others.</p> <p><strong>Robert Simon - </strong>The world is separated, very clearly, into two different casts of people. We