From the category archives:

Accountability

A Great Example of Accountability

by Bill Caskey on June 8, 2009

My friend Dan runs a restaurant equipment company. As you can imagine, they’ve gone through some tough times recently and he has had to lay off several people in his firm.
But his heart really broke when he had to lay off Marvin, a 26-year employee who had battled prostate cancer and other illness over the [...]

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President Obama has encouraged us to “be accountable and responsible” in our lives. So since he’s my President now, I’m taking that to heart. But I’m also encouraging my clients and other businesses to do the same.
Recently, I drove by a retail lighting store that had bitten the dust. No doubt they will blame the [...]

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Feeling Down? Think Zerbin Singleton.

by Bill Caskey on November 8, 2007

I was watching the Navy-Notre Dame football game last week and heard an unbelievable story about the Navy running back, Zerbin Singleton. His story brought tears to my eyes – tears of grace and hopefulness.

The short version is that his mom was incarcerated for drug abuse and other things when he was young. After making [...]

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When you’re in the “change” business like we are at Caskey, we come across a lot of companies/people who say they want different results in the market: more money, more fame, more customers, more profit, etc.Several weeks ago, a prospect sought us out to train his sales/marketing team. After he told us about his $2,000,000/year [...]

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Your Opinion Of Me Is None Of My Business

by Bill Caskey on October 16, 2007

by Brooke Green“Your opinion of me is none of my business. . . ” (Author Unknown)
That is one of my favorite quotes and one I keep filed in my brain at all times.
Peer Pressure
I train a lot of business development teams that have become more interested in how they look to their peers than fulfilling [...]

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