“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”

-Mario Andretti

(SpencerWolfe.com)  There are a lot of people doing telephone services around the world.  Tokyo is no exception.  Unfortunately, most of the services are very expensive and/or unreliable.

AINEO has been working with telephone systems since 1997 (our team since 1992) and is getting a lot of growth with our iPBX Hosting service.  Check out the new catalog here.  Looks very good.

(BrightCitizen.com)  Americans are famous for saying what they think.  The nation has always been open to the opinions of other and built on a strong ethics.  With the advent of politicians endorsing lifestyles that perspective has gone away.  What was once live and let live has become, “If you don’t agree with me I will attack you”.

That is exactly what has happened with Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston.  He has publicly stated that he is going to work against a restaurant chain because they founder said he did not believe in gay marriage.  Interestingly enough, most of the United States doesn’t believe in gay marriage as gays cannot become true families as a man and a woman can.  Children raised by two men or two women homosexuals are more likely to have issues with self-motivation, suicidal tendencies, social issues and countless other issues over children raised by a loving mother and father.

It is a sad day in the USA when one can’t talk about the beliefs that got Americans where there are without being threatened by someone who wants to force their viewpoint on the majority.

(BrightCitizen.com) United States presiding President Mr. Barak Obama continues to show Americans that he is clueless when it comes to business.  The current US President told a group of supporters-

“If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there.  It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.

“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen,” he said. “The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.”

You can read more here.  Unfortunately, as Mr. Obama has never run a business and has very little real life experience (besides running up the US national debt) in running an organization, his lack of experience shows.

We give an example.  Yes, the national highway system has helped thousands of trucking companies build up businesses of bringing goods from one side of the nation to the other.  However, just having the highway system doesn’t

• Assure that there will be goods to deliver for suppliers and retail outlets
• Pay for capital expenditures such as trucks, terminals or the systems to run them
• Negotiate competitive salaries with drivers and back office staff
• Sell more services in order to grow the business.

Statements like this worry business leaders in the US as Barak Obama is clearly clueless when it comes to business or just trying to buy the votes of the masses.

If you work hard you’ll have extra. You’ll have margin

A lacking corporate culture is revealed by a company’s team. A bad manager is likely the tip of the iceberg of incompetent or harsh management above.

Endeavor to be the best manager and you will have a world class team.

For small business –

The only ship that won’t sail is a partnership.