Brenner Business Development » Inspiration http://www.brennerbd.com Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:27:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Chris McCann talks about building Relationships http://www.brennerbd.com/chris-mccann-talks-about-building-relationships/ http://www.brennerbd.com/chris-mccann-talks-about-building-relationships/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:23:16 +0000 Mark Lesselroth http://www.brennerbd.com/?p=111 I want to thank CBS for producing one of the best and entertaining shows on televising,”Undercover Boss.” Last night I had a chance to see Chris McCann, president of 1-800-Flowers go undercover and it was great. While I’m a big fan of the show I can highly recommend seeing this episode. One of my major take a ways was that he took action after having gone undercover to learn about some of the issues and problems facing his company. I think a lot of CEO’s could learn from his example.

I was also very happy to see Chris comment about how building relationships with people has to come before sales can occur. That was music to my ears as my business is about facilitating relationships between two parties who can mutually benefit from one another.

I think the concept of developing and then facilitating relationships is all too often taken for granted by people or at least minimized in the grand scheme of things. If we take a look at Chris’s comments about relationships one would like to believe that there is inherent value associated with the ability to create and facilitate relationships which hopefully lead to sales.

]]> http://www.brennerbd.com/chris-mccann-talks-about-building-relationships/feed/ 5 Invincible http://www.brennerbd.com/invincible/ http://www.brennerbd.com/invincible/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:52:43 +0000 admin http://www.brennerbd.com/invincible/ While I’m not one to make movie recommendations this is a must see for anyone who thinks they can’t achieve the improbable. All we need to do is look at the laundry list of politicians who have declared their intentions to run for president of the United States to see that the dream is alive.

Invincible is the story of Vince Papale, a 30 year old bartender who never played college ball and made it as a walk-on with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1979. Even if you aren’t a sports fan you’ll enjoy this story as it proves that nothing is impossible. Philadelphia was coming off of one of its worst seasons when they decided to acquire a young college coach named Dick Vermeil. He quickly realized that he needed to try something different to change the attitude of his players and the fans so he held an open practice for anyone and everyone to try out. Most thought this would be a good publicity stunt and no one really thought any new talent would come from this exercise. Not only did Vince Papale make the team he became the captain of the special teams in his three year career with the Eagles!

Vince’s story shows us that nothing is impossible and supports the old adage, “nothing ventured, nothing gained.” I think if more business owners adapted this kind of attitude, we would hear about more personal success stories and corporate triumphs in the workplace.

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