This Week in Business Strategies

Oct. 21, 2019

In this week's business-building strategy compilation, learn how to win over a dissatisfied customer and use storytelling in your business.

Oct. 21, 2019—To better assist shop owners with their production management, marketing tactics and leadership styles, Ratchet+Wrench has compiled a short list of essential business-building material from some of its favorite sources.

How to Win Over Dissatisfied Customers – Entrepreneur

Sometimes customer service is not pleasant. Because sometimes people are not pleasant. And that’s when we, as entrepreneurs, need to kick into a different gear. We need something to help us stay focused—to not get dragged down by frustration.

5 Simple Rules for Strategy Execution – Harvard Business Review

It’s one thing to design a strategy in the boardroom and quite another to get it operating at all levels of the organisation.

The Power of Storytelling in Business Success

A perfectly placed, impeccably delivered story can transport a person to a place beyond interested, straight past paying attention. 

5 Leadership Strategies That Will Significantly Lower the Stress of Your Employees – Inc

Rather than pushing deadlines, managers should empower employees to do it for themselves and one another, fostering the growth of a leader-culture acting on the collective knowledge of the team, rather than the imposed will of one person at the top of the hierarchy.

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