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Zane Safrit
I can help your company create customer evangelists, engaged employees and sustain or increase the positive cash-flows that result.
Interests: Small business solutions, networking in-person or with online social media, innovation, engaged employees, customer evangelists, college basketball, running.
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7 Things I Learned Finishing the Pilgrim Pacer Marathon
Note: I came across this unpublished post last week while I was cleaning up my desktop. I’m not sure why, at the time, I chose to not publish it on my website. Maybe I needed to read it again today,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 28, 2017 at Zane Safrit
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Employee Engagement - You're the Hope
Monday I posted Employee Engagement ... And Then Nothing Happened. Because nothing has happened on a macro level. However, you can change that. YOU. You, wherever you sit, whatever your title ... YOU can change that. No. You don't need... Continue reading
Posted Nov 8, 2016 at Zane Safrit
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Employee Engagement: And Then Nothing Happened
For the past 10 years I've been writing about this thing called employee engagement. No matter how much data is shared that confirms again and again tat those companies with the most engaged employees - not happy or well-fed or... Continue reading
Reblogged Nov 7, 2016 at Zane Safrit
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In Memoriam: Frank Ramsey
What's on my mind? Frank Ramsey's on my mind. He passed away this week, I found out Friday afternoon. Frank was a light and a force of nature. He jumped up most every morning, wide awake and grinning and rubbing... Continue reading
Posted May 22, 2016 at Zane Safrit
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Employee Engagement: Going, Going ...
American corporations borrowed more in the years following the Financial Crisis than ever before. Debt was dirt-cheap even for the riskiest borrowers, and they went out and sold bonds and borrowed from banks, and blew the proceeds on funding operating... Continue reading
Reblogged Feb 2, 2016 at Zane Safrit
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Who's Serving in 175 Countries
Awhile back, longer than I remembered, I wrote this last post titled 175 Countries, spurred by this announcement: This NFL broadcast is being watched by military personnel serving in over 175 countries. Granted, my chest swelled a bit with the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2016 at Zane Safrit
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175 Countries
This NFL broadcast is being watched by military personnel serving in over 175 countries. Some Sundays I, like a few other million Americans watch NFL. I did it again this past Sunday while I was doing some work. As I... Continue reading
Posted Nov 11, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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Employees and Families First!
Beginning today, we will be enacting a number of organizational changes at ESPN to better support our future goals – a process that will include the elimination of a number of positions, impacting friends and colleagues across the organization. via... Continue reading
Reblogged Nov 4, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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5 Gears Is a Really Good Book. Read It
Posted Nov 3, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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Here's Why Employee Engagement Numbers Aren't Improving
A weak stock market isn’t stopping buybacks. A report this week from S&P Capital IQ found that dividends and buybacks are on trend to hit a new high this year. And that’s after years of increases. For the past decade,... Continue reading
Posted Nov 2, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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You coulda invested in your employees ...
If the global economy slows down further and if revenues and earnings get dragged down with it, all of which are now part of the scenario, these highly leveraged balance sheets will further pressure already iffy earnings, and investors will... Continue reading
Reblogged Oct 19, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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R.I.P. Employee Engagement
Dearly beloved, we’re gathered here to honor a true hero whose potential was cut down by the long knives and long tongues of the indifferent, slcerotic, top-down, hierarchical command-and-control cultures it hoped to transform and save. Despite overwhelming resistance from... Continue reading
Posted Oct 15, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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"I don’t have time to read books!"
I heard that the other night. The person saying it didn’t say it as an apology. They bragged about it, as if they were too busy, too smart, knew it all. The person saying it leads a company who once... Continue reading
Posted Oct 14, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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Simple Sabotage: A [More] Proper Review
Posted Oct 13, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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Employee Engagement and Running Your Own Race
I’ve been an avid runner for the past 20+ years. When I was younger, I practiced loads of training regimens with intervals and distance and tempo and HIIT and hills and fartleks and weights and all that. They worked. My... Continue reading
Posted Oct 12, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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Ramblings on a Long-Slow Run
Right now, I'm running 2.5 hours on the weekend. It's known as a LSD run, Long-Slow Distance. I call it my Ol' Man Shuffle. I've got the slow part down real good. I'm working on the Long part. I've come... Continue reading
Posted Oct 11, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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Pt. 2 - Interview w/ Authors of "Simple Sabotage"
Posted Oct 9, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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Pt. 1 - Interview w/ Authors of "Simple Sabotage"
Posted Oct 8, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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A 6-Hour Workday?
"There's a paradox at the heart of productivity — while longer hours seem to be the obvious solution for those who want to accomplish more, working less often means getting more done. A town in Sweden recently conducted a real-world... Continue reading
Reblogged Oct 7, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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What [Managers] Fear
Fear divides and weakens. It divides the mind and heart of the person who fears. It creates a chasm of trust with those around them, their environment too. Always has, always will. There will be fear in the future and... Continue reading
Reblogged Oct 6, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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Solving The Mystery of Employee Engagement: Follow the Money
"This all comes at cost. That is, you can’t simply keep leveraging the balance sheet to artificially inflate earnings. Eventually, some of the proceeds from debt sales need to go towards capex or wage growth or something that’s conducive to... Continue reading
Reblogged Sep 30, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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It's Not the Ad-Blocker, Silly.
There’s nothing we media types like more than talking about ourselves. So it’s not surprising that the debate around ad blocking, which took center stage in tech media this week after Apple’s iOS 9 update, continued to rage into the... Continue reading
Reblogged Sep 23, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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#NEYT - 2: What Can You Do For Them?
This is the second step, chapter, in my next book on employee engagement. It's titled: Now Engage Your Team. ( October, 2015). The first step is Close and Open, Open and Close. It's a sequel to my earlier book: First,... Continue reading
Posted Sep 22, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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#NEYT - Step 1: Close and Open, Open and Close
This is the first step, chapter, in my next book on employee engagement. It's titled: Now Engage Your Team. ( October, 2015) It's a sequel to my earlier book: First, Engage Yourself which you can buy as a PDF at... Continue reading
Posted Sep 21, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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Butts in the Seat: A Review
Posted Sep 18, 2015 at Zane Safrit
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