Billy Florence - Help Others Do What They Need To Do

This is a wonderful description of a great leader. Leaders challenge people to do what they know they need to do but don't want to do it. There is much wisdom in this quote by a great leader...

“I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do and like it.” - Harry Truman

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Billy Florence - Figure Out Why

We often talk about figuring out your "why" when we are working with business owners. Sometimes people are so focused on figuring out all the "how to" when they need to be more focused on figuring out their "why to." If we really know why we want to do something, we will figure out how to do it.

This quote says it perfectly...

“The person who knows ‘how’ will always have a job. The person who knows ‘why’ will always be his boss.” - Diane Ravitch

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Jim Janz: Management Tip

Jim Janz says, “Developing the skills of remembering names takes work and a commitment to becoming an outstanding listener.”

Jim Janz top picks on making your people feel valued.

“Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” - Dale Carnegie

Jim Janz, Quixtar Diamond IBO leader, is a board member of IBOAI, Independent Business Owners Association (IBO).

Mission of official IBO trade association is to serve and protect the business interests of Quixtar IBO’s

The IBOAI, Independent Business Owner Association Leadership team includes Greg Duncan, Chairman, Don Wilson, Vice Chairman, Angelo Nardone, Steve Woods, Jim Janz, Terry Felber, Randy Haugen, Kanti Gala, and former president Fred Harteis. Governance and Oversight Committee includes Jody Victor and Billy Florence.

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Orrin Woodward: Character Is Key

There is some great leadership information on Orrin Woodward's Team blog. Look what Orrin Woodward says about character...

Orrin Woodward says that people who are worried about reputation have their priorities wrong. Having proper character is the key. He teaches to focus on character based actions and not to worry about reputation for that is something you can not control. You can only control your character and in the end the truth will be known. The world is full of politicians who have worked hard to have a great public reputation but their character was lacking in private and in the end their lack of character leads to their downfall.

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Quixtar's Terry Felber: Make Praise In Writing

Terry Felber notes, “Praise can be most effective when done in front of peers and then memorialized in writing. Correction is best handled in private.”

Felber top picks on praise .

“When I must criticize somebody, I do it orally; when I praise somebody, I put it in writing.”
- Lee Iacocca

Terry Felber, Quixtar Diamond IBO leader, is a board member of IBOAI, Independent Business Owners Association (IBO).

Mission of trade association is to serve and protect the business interests of Quixtar IBO’s

The IBOAI, Independent Business Owner Association Leadership team includes Greg Duncan, Chairman, Don Wilson, Vice Chairman, Angelo Nardone, Steve Woods, Jim Janz, Terry Felber, Randy Haugen, Kanti Gala, and former president Fred Harteis. Governance and Oversight Committee includes Jody Victor and Billy Florence.


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Kanti Gala: Leaders Uplift Others

Kanti Gala Quixtar IBO states, “General Montgomery’s leadership check list applies to all organizations. Leaders uplift and convey a deeply held enthusiasm.”

Kanti Gala top picks leader check list

“The leader must have infectious optimism…. The final test of a leader is the feeling you have when you leave his presence after a conference. Have you a feeling of uplift or confidence?”
- Field General Bernard Montgomery

Kanti Gala, Quixtar Diamond IBO leader is a board member of IBOAI, Independent Business Owners Association (IBO).

Mission of trade association is to serve and protect the business interests of Quixtar IBO’s

The IBOAI, Independent Business Owner Association, Leadership team includes Greg Duncan, Chairman, Don Wilson, Vice Chairman, Angelo Nardone, Steve Woods, Jim Janz, Terry Felber, Randy Haugen, Kanti Gala, and former president Fred Harteis. Governance and Oversight Committee includes Jody Victor and Billy Florence.


© 2006 Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers. All rights are reserved.

Billy Florence - Leadership Thoughts

To successfully build Quixtar Teams it requires learning to be a better leader of people. You have to serve others and care about the people you are leading and helping. Below are some great thoughts on leadership to learn from...

Billy Florence Leadership Favorites

“You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow and be led.” - Tiorio

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better." - Jim Rohn

"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." - Arnold Glasow

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives." - Theodore Roosevelt

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Billy Florence News: Super Sizing of America

Americans Are Getting Super-Sized

A new study reports that almost two-thirds of U.S. adults consider themselves healthy eaters. If America is eating healthier, why is it getting fatter? Many dieticians and nutritionists are pointing to portion size as a key reason more people are becoming super-sized.

Smaller Plate for a Smaller Waist

The size of food packaging and portions has steadily increased over the past 30 years. Diet researchers continue to come up with findings that suggest if you super-size your plates, bowls, and serving spoons, you will super-size yourself. When ‘all you can eat buffets’ and bottomless bowls are the new ‘norm’ for meal portions, we eat more. Think of it as portion peer pressure. Conversely, if you use smaller plates and bowls, you will eat less food. Consuming smaller, healthy portions translates to a smaller number of daily calories.

A study by Cornell University researchers found that teenagers poured 66 percent less juice into tall narrow glasses than they did into short wide glasses. People attending an ice cream social found that those receiving larger bowls served themselves 30 percent more ice cream than those with smaller bowls; even though they were not aware of this. We count calories with our eyes and not from serving size. A study of people assigned to sit at a table equipped with auto-refilling soup bowls consumed 73 percent more soup than those with regular bowls. The “I’m full” bells did not ring and they did not perceive themselves as eating more.

Grocery Stores Healthy Eating Trends

Grocers and consumer package goods companies are taking advantage of a rising interest in organic products, fruit, and “light” product alternatives. All have shown strong initial sales and are taking the space on grocery shelves previously reserved for low-carb.

In 2005, “light” weight management products significantly outpaced total category sales growth across the snack, dessert, beverage and dairy product segments. Many consumers have embraced the concept of “healthful” new products, but overall dietary changes have been slow and gradual. New products enabling consumers to make easy improvements in their diets, such as Nabisco 100 Calorie Packs and Sara Lee Heart Healthy Bread, have met with strong success. However, over half of consumers continue to take a haphazard approach to healthy eating, and the majority of consumers continue to eat both healthful and indulgent foods in their diets.

Meet the Calories

Whether the customer is choosing a “light-alternative” version of a favorite cookie, something low-fat or low-carb, one reality remains unchanged - calories do count. It’s time to become reacquainted with the old-fashion calorie.

A calorie is a unit of energy contained in food that provides fuel for muscles, like gasoline provides fuel for your car. Staying with a car analogy, think of muscle as the engine in your body. Fat can then be compared to high test fuel because it provides nearly twice the amount of calories or energy as a gram of simple sugar. You can go twice as many miles on a gram of fat as you can on a gram of carbohydrate.

Don’t overload on fats. Aim to have no more than 30 percent of your calories come from fat, with 10 percent or less from saturated and trans fat. American Dietetic Association recommends limiting butter, vegetable shortening and lard in cooking and replacing them with olive and canola oils.

The bottom line to losing fat weight is to burn more calories than you consume. If you eat 2,000 calories a day and only burn 1,500, you’re going to gain weight. On the other hand, if you consume 1,500 calories and burn 2,000, you’ll be in caloric deficit by 500 calories. Since it takes 3,500 excess calories to gain a pound, you’d lose one pound per week if you produced a 500-calorie deficit each day of the week.

Calorie Deficit Example

You could reduce your calorie intake by 250 per day and increase your physical activity by 250 calories per day (for a 150-pound person, a 2.5-mile walk is all it would take). Do that each and every day of the week and you’ll drop a pound per week.

Source: Kamaron Institute

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Billy Florence News: Fast Times At Laptop High

Fast Times At Laptop High

The “Emerging Tech” thread of the Consumer Electronics Show is always fun to follow. Of particular interest were several new products poised for a 2006 release that will significantly improve the business life of the laptop-dependent road warrior.

DUAL-CORE TECHNOLOGY FOR LAPTOPS

When Intel and AMD released their dual-core processors in the spring of 2005, they were limited to high-end desktop PCs. In Las Vegas, Intel announced that its Centrino Duo Mobile Technology is ready to roll – featuring “Core Duo,” the first dual-core chip for laptops. And all indications are that AMD will not be far behind.

Dual-core technology places two separate processing units on a single chip, allowing them to work in true parallel mode. This is a step up from multi-threading, in which a single unit operates two separate processing threads. Operating systems (like Windows XP and the forthcoming Vista) and programs (like Adobe Photoshop CS) that utilize multi-threading run even better with dual-core processors. In addition, gaming software performance is increased dramatically. But the greatest boon for the average business consumer is the great leap in multi-tasking efficiency, which rises to virtually seamless levels with many applications.

Dell, HP, and Sony have already announced shipments of dual-core laptops in the late winter and early spring, in both desktop replacement and thin-and-light models. Starting prices range from $1700-$2200, which does not represent much of a jump in purchase costs. (Single core thin-and-lights generally hover around the $1500 mark, while desktop replacements push up closer to $2000.)

HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE TECHNOLOGY

Computer engineers have long been aware of the theory and even the practice behind holographic data writing. All that was lacking was a medium stable enough to handle the rigors of 3D storage and retrieval, and inexpensive enough to promise affordable products. CES InPhase Technologies, an offshoot of Bell Laboratories, unveiled a new polymer that they say fits the bill. Labeled “TapestryÔ HDS4000,” the media records at the same red laser wavelength already utilized in CD and DVD recorders. Because of the dramatically increased density levels of the data storage, InPhase predicts that, in the very near future, up to 500 GB could be stored on a device the size of a business card.

Holographic storage splits a laser into a signal beam and a reference beam. Data is stored on the signal beam in a checkerboard pattern of light and dark segments, representing the 0s and 1s of the binary language. When the beams are reunited, the stored data is reflected precisely in the resulting interference pattern, which is then recorded in the light-sensitive media. Data is retrieved by bouncing the reference beam off the media, thereby reconstructing the stored data and sending it to a detector. Because the data is presented holographically, it can be read in parallel, thus adding dramatically increased retrieval speeds to the list of exciting promises this new technology offers.

To be sure, holographic storage technology will be a boon for all levels of computing – mobile, desktop, and mainframe. But it is especially promising for the laptop traveler, always ready for new ways to work faster and more efficiently, while minimizing necessary space and weight.

NAND FLASH TECHNOLOGY IN LAPTOPS

By all accounts, the day of the zero-spindle laptop, in which hard drives and their myriad problems are relegated once and for all to the trash heap of cyber-obsolescence, is still a good 5-7 years away. Nonetheless, Samsung and Microsoft used the CES to reveal the joint production of a hybrid mobile hard drive that utilizes NAND flash memory as a cache when the drive is idle. The disks are scheduled to begin shipping this fall.

Samsung is the industry leader in NAND technology, which has already revolutionized both the cell phone and digital audio player market. The advantages of flash memory over hard drives include smaller size and weight, more efficient power usage, and solid state technology, with no moving parts to break or malfunction. Samsung predicts that its hybrid drive will reduce battery consumption by 36 percent, which is only a taste of the good things to come as single-spindle laptops give way to the evolution of their zero-spindle progeny.

Remember the clunky cell phones we all used five years ago? Remember how big iPods were just last fall? Take a look at your palm-sized flip phone or your teenager’s iPod Nano by comparison, and you’ll have some idea of what awaits us in laptop portability as the dawn of NAND flash memory creeps over the technological horizon. More information on road warrior gadgets on CNET.

Sources: CES, Kamaron Institute

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Quixtar IBO Association - Service To Quixtar Business Owners

About the IBO Association: First the IBO Association was The American Way Association - then, with the formation of Amway, IBO Association became the Amway Distributors Association. As the business changed and Amway matured into Alticor, Amway, Quixtar, and their sister companies, so the Association matured – we became the IBOAI (Independent Business Owners Association International-al).

When entrepreneurs start businesses, they usually have no one but themselves looking after their own interests, but not Independent Business Owners (Quixtar IBOs).

The minute someone becomes an IBO he also becomes a member of the Independent Business Owners Association International (IBOAI) and gains the strength of an entire organization that exists solely to pursue his business interests. The IBOAI works tirelessly to improve all the factors influencing IBOs' businesses, minimizing their risks and maximizing their opportunities.

Specifically, the IBOA International (IBO Association) targets the areas where it can most improve IBO businesses.

“The official IBO Trade Association, IBOAI is dedicated to serving and protecting the interests of Quixtar powered Independent Business Owners (Quixtar IBOs) throughout North America,” Governed by a Board of Directors, the IBOAI:

• Protects the best interests of IBOs and serves as an advocate in IBO issues.
• Promotes and protects the integrity of the Independent Business Ownership Plan.
• Ensures that the business opportunity today is as good or better for future generations.
• Acts as an advisory group toQuixtar Inc. and Quixtar Canada Corp.


The 2006 IBO Association Board of Directors Executive Committee includes Greg Duncan, Chairman, Don Wilson, Vice Chairman, Angelo Nardone, Steve Woods, Jim Janz, Terry Felber, Randy Haugen, and Kanti Gala. Governance and Oversight Committee includes Jody Victor and Billy Florence.

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TEAM's Billy Florence - First Lead Yourself

First Lead Yourself

Step one in an effective leadership development process is to develop yourself inwardly. First lead yourself. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” – Martin Luther King.

Grow and share:”The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people’s lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.” - Rabbi Harold Kushner

Six Areas to Develop Yourself Inwardly

Character – The Strength Within You

Passion – The First Within You

Self-Discipline – The Control Within You

Positive Attitude – The Hope Within You

Courage – The Boldness Within You

Servanthood – The Heart Within You

- John C Maxwell, Developing The Leader Within You

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Colombo DiSalvatore Review: Green Tea Coriander Home Trends

“The beautifully packaged Green Tea & Coriander Home Trend Collection combines the calming influence of Green Tea with the invigorating essential oils of citrus and coriander,” says Karen DiSalvatore of the IBOAI Marketing Advisory Committee. The new scent-sational collection includes: L.O.C. ® Plus Kitchen Cleaner, L.O.C.Multi-Purpose Cleaner, DISH DROPS®, L.O.C. Plus Glass Cleaner, and the Liquid Hand Soap and Body Lotion Set. “All are infused with essential oils of citrus and coriander, and the dishwashing liquid, soap and lotion include moisturizing agents and alpha hydroxy to help keep skin smooth,” adds DiSalvatore.

“Home care is a multi-billion dollar growing industry,” says DiSalvatore. “Candles, plug-ins and incense are all the rage in scented home products, but there is no reason to spend extra money, light fires, or waste electricity when there are cleaning products like Quixtar’s that allow our daily efforts to achieve the same effect,” says Colombo DiSalvatore.

“Day-to-day activities like washing the dishes, cleaning the kitchen counter or mopping the floor can bring a lasting and invigorating aroma to the home when Green Tea Coriander-scented products are used,” notes Karen DiSalvatore.

“We have been using L.O.C. products in our own home for as long as we have been Independent Business Owners (IBOs),” continues Colombo DiSalvatore. “We know the products work, cleaning tough stains while keeping hands healthy.”

“IBOAI members have come to expect the best products in support of their businesses. We’re pleased Quixtar Inc. continues to monitor industry trends, keeping one of our longest-standing product lines fresh,” continues DiSalvatore.

“Nobody loves to clean,” says Karen DiSalvatore. “But these products make it feel like less of a chore. After all, the scent is beautiful and the products are more concentrated than others in the marketplace, so the cleaning power is stronger.”

“The Green Tea & Coriander Homes Trends Collection is available exclusively from our members, IBO’s powered by Quixtar in the United States and Canada,” says Columbo DiSalvatore.

About the IBOAI

“The official Trade Association, IBOAI is dedicated to serving and protecting the interests of Quixtar powered Independent Business Owners (IBOs) throughout North America,” states Colombo DiSalvatore of IBOAI.

QUIXTAR BONUS STATEMENT:

Products and services from the team of Quixtar Partner stores are available exclusively from Independent Business Owners (Quixtar IBO) in the US and Canada. Since 1999, IBOs powered by Quixtar Inc. (Quixtar IBOs) have generated more than $4.2 billion in sales plus nearly $320 million for Quixtar’s Partner Stores, earning in excess of $1.37 billion in bonuses and other incentives.

The IBOAI, Independent Business Owner Association Leadership team includes Greg Duncan, Chairman, Don Wilson, Vice Chairman, Angelo Nardone, Steve Woods, Jim Janz, Terry Felber, Randy Haugen, Kanti Gala, and former president Fred Harteis. Governance and Oversight Committee includes Jody Victor and Billy Florence.

© 2006 Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers blog. All rights reserved.

Angelo Nardone: Successful Teams Are Built with Trust

Angelo Nardone, “Building trust with people happens over time and is well worth the effort.”

Angelo Nardone top picks on trust.

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
- George MacDonald

"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him." - Booker T. Washington


Angelo Nardone, Quixtar Diamond IBO leader, is a board member of IBOAI, Independent Business Owners Association (IBO).

Mission of trade association is to serve and protect the business interests of Quixtar IBO’s

The IBOAI, Independent Business Owner Association Leadership team, includes Greg Duncan, Chairman, Don Wilson, Vice Chairman, Angelo Nardone, Steve Woods, Jim Janz, Terry Felber, Randy Haugen, Kanti Gala, and former president Fred Harteis. Governance and Oversight Committee includes Jody Victor and Billy Florence.

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