<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2bf4b321-f679-4313-82f0-53f1d8c63b98/0BDB9E5B-AEFA-4D36-89F3-C90B4367F2FE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/top-5-business-maxims-that-need-to-go/" href="http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/top-5-business-maxims-that-need-to-go/" style="font-size: 11px;">positivesharing.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/top-5-business-maxims-that-need-to-go/"><P>Much well-known business advice is sadly obsolete but can still be found in articles, business books and, not least, in daily use in the workplace. It seems that some companies are still guided by thinking that is sadly out of date - if it was ever true to begin with.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/top-5-business-maxims-that-need-to-go/"><P>The worst of these old maxims are not only wrong, they’re <EM>bad for people</EM> and <EM>bad for business</EM>. Businesses who use them are making their employees unhappy and are harming the bottom line.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/top-5-business-maxims-that-need-to-go/"><P>Here’s my pick of the top 5 business maxims in serious need of an update - with a suggested replacement for each.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/top-5-business-maxims-that-need-to-go/"><P>UPDATE: Now there’s also a <A href="http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/more-bad-business-advice-that-needs-to-go">Part II post with 5 more horrendous pieces of business advice</A>. <A id="more-1016"></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/top-5-business-maxims-that-need-to-go/"><CENTER> <TABLE cellspacing="0" border="1"><TBODY><TR><TD><STRONG>Tired old maxim</STRONG></TD><TD><STRONG>New maxim</STRONG></TD></TR><TR><TD>Failure is not an option</TD><TD>Failure happens - deal with it</TD></TR><TR><TD>The customer is always right</TD><TD>Happy employees means happy customers</TD></TR><TR><TD>Never be satisfied</TD><TD>Always be appreciative but never complacent</TD></TR><TR><TD>Nice guys finish last</TD><TD>Nice guys get results</TD></TR><TR><TD>Grow or die</TD><TD>Grow when you gotta</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P></P></CENTER></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0BDB9E5B-AEFA-4D36-89F3-C90B4367F2FE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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