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#1. Themes For My Act2 Site Blogs v These for My Act3 Site

 
On my Act2 site at: merrifieldact2.com – there are 253 blogs which have the following themes:

1. Finance. What are the dysfunctional financial-management assumptions and blind spots that plague many companies? 
2. Cost-to-serve (CTS) modeling to reveal the true profitability of both customers and products. Those who are only incented on margin dollars (ignoring CTS) will fight CTS insights. Their counter, data-free opinion: every (incented) customer and margin dollar is good and does not distract from better pursuit of most profitable customers. (See #6)
3. Customer and product profitability Ranking Reports and the ensuing plays are covered in webinars 3-7 at merrifieldact.com/ecommerce-2023. By creatively focusing on the top/best and bottom/worst 5+ customers on these reports, huge profit improvements are possible.
4. Field research to better discern next-level, service metrics for most net-profitable customers and customer niches: “nichonomics”. Distributors who do this kill those who don’t. For how-to’s on nichonomics, go to my youtube channel to watch (most narrowly) clips 14-30. Slide 14: CASE: What's our #1 Niche? 
5. High-Performance, Service Cultures to attract, engage, and focus talent needed to turn insights (from themes 1-4 above) into better service-value and profits.
6. How to partner best and “gazelle” customers that will then grow your sales and profits faster than your industry. (Best summary at merrifieldact2.com/ecommerce-2023 in webinars 9 and 10.)   
7. Envisioning Omnichannel Cloud Commerce. Themes 1-6 provide the profits, agility, and confidence to change to win at digital commerce.   

Themes for this Act3 site will be:

1. Mastering the process of mastery.

1. At the company level, are all employees black-belt+ at their present posts. Are they cross-trained (if appropriate) to be excellent at other posts? Cross-training insures perfect service execution when: others are absent; or, order surges need to be processed perfectly and shipped on time.
2. At the personal level, the mastery process is first and best learned in teenage years through kinesthetic, hard-skills (sports, instruments, etc.) And, then for life, you can apply the mastery process to occupational and pro-social, soft skills. Are you, for example, a black-belt+: boss, friend, spouse, parent, mentors?  
3. To be an acclaimed professional, there is also the broader concept of being an Apprentice to best Mentors.  

 

2. How to get wiser faster.

1. Wisdom has been lauded and pursued by philosophers and spiritual traditions since recorded time. Scientific studies have moved into this definition-and-achievement challenge over the past 40 years.
2. Wisdom is vital for personal peace and happiness and for coaching any and all types of mentees.

I hope that this site’s content and contributions from others will help visitors grow their skills for a better life!