Name the Buildings Contest!

Hi TIENS Consultants!
http://www.tiens.com/tiens/group/en/upload/tiens/en/index.htm
Check out this link and participate in the naming of the buildings at the new TIENS Corporate Campus in Tianjin, China. You could win a cash prize!
You can also see more pictures and details of the Campus and the buildings on this linked site.
Best regards
Peter

Featured Speaker at the US DSA Conference

Below are some remarks from Jason Jennings, a featured speaker at the US DSA Annual Meeting that I attended.
JASON JENNINGS
Best-selling Business Author & Speaker
Jason Jennings has spent twenty years founding and leading successful businesses and teaching other companies how to achieve their full economic potential. He researched the fastest companies in the world for his book It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small–It’s the Fast That Eat the Slow. Next, Jennings and his research team studied more than 4000 companies and he reveals the secrets of the world’s most productive companies in his book Less Is More. In his latest release, Think Big, ACT Small: How America's Best Performing Companies Keep the Start-Up Spirit Alive, Jennings argues that regardless of how big a company becomes, acting big and ignoring the needs of employees, merchants and customers always leads to lost profit. Jennings was the youngest radio station group owner in the world, and his unique and legendary programming, sales and management strategies are credited with revolutionizing many parts of the broadcasting industry. Later, he founded a consulting firm that, within three years, became the largest media consultancy in the world. He speaks internationally and more than 300,000 businesses worldwide have learned his lessons on leadership, sales, management, and customer satisfaction.


DSA's 2008 Annual MeetingJune 8-10 ● Phoenix, AZ


Jason Jennings: Thinking Big, Acting Small
On the first full day of the annual DSA Conference held in Phoenix, AZ, attendees gathered in the McArthur Ballroom and warmly welcomed the meeting’s first keynote speaker, Jason Jennings.


Direct Selling News recently spoke to Jennings about what he shared with the crowd and lessons the entire direct selling industry can learn from the companies he’s studied.


DSN: For our readers who were unable to attend this year’s Annual Meeting, can you recap the four leadership secrets you’ve discovered during your research?


JJ: First, the fastest, most productive and best performing companies and people on the planet have a cause. They don’t have a mission statement. They don’t have a vision statement. They have a cause. The cause is the reason why they do what they do. Point No. 2 is that all these great companies and people that we identified have mastered the art of letting go. One, you’ve got to let go of yesterday’s breadwinners. Two, you’ve got to let go of ego and you’ve got to let go of the same-old same-old. I think that applies to all of us. Third, Charles Koch (of Koch Industries) told me the challenge to any business is to get everybody to think and act like an owner. And I think in the direct selling industry, those 16 million people who are out there for Pampered Chef or Amway or AtHome America are probably thinking and acting like owners. But if you want everyone in the organization to think and act like an owner, you have to teach them how what they do creates economic value for an organization. Finally, truly great leaders see their role as stewards. They see themselves as stewards of people, stewards of customers, stewards of shareholders. They see their role as guiding, mentoring, nurturing, advancing the interests of everyone. Stewardship means making everything around you better.


DSN: How can the direct selling industry apply the leadership secrets you discovered in your research?


JJ: One of my guiding principles has always been that everyone has the obligation to maximize what they do to achieve their full potential in the interest of achieving economic freedom. And I guess that’s probably the reason I had such an affinity with this group, because the members of the Direct Selling Association actually provide the opportunity to achieve full economic potential to more than 16 million people just in America alone, which is pretty extraordinary.


DSN: Does the direct selling industry excel in any of the four discoveries you’ve discussed?


JJ:The direct selling industry comes very close on two of the points. I think that they probably come very close on having a cause. And second, I think the industry does a good job with the 16 million people who sell the different products in terms of getting them to think and act like owners, because each of those 16 million people is in business for themselves. They understand how what they do creates economic value, and they are paid accordingly.

Peter

Report on California Events

Well everyone! here are some pictures of the events I attended in Sacramento, San Jose, and San Francisco. All were so well run and attended, thanks to our TIENS leaders there - Anna Iosifova, Irina Connick, Gennadiy Kotlyarchuk, and Natalie Vileshina.

Peter

Labor Day Weekend!

Hi everyone!

I hope you all enjoyed a very relaxing long weekend!  Or was it a preparation weekend for the new school year?  Hopefully you still got some rest and relaxation anyway.

My family spent some time in Collingwood, Ontario, about an hour and a half north of Toronto at a time share resort.  It was a great family time for us, although not everyone was there all the time...I could only afford to spend one extra day besides the weekend.

Our favorite spot for a beach excursion is Sauble Beach - a 7 mile stretch of sand bordering on Lake Huron.  The water is clear and clean, and the beach is sandy for several hundred feet from shore.

Then on Tuesday it was book to the office to begin working on our plans for the fall.  First off several consultants from the US will join me in Tianjin China for our International Convention at the new Corporate Campus.  Then I will meet with President Li and managers from around the world in our Executive Seminar.

Tomorrow I will host the SuperSaturday event in our Markham office, with Dr. John Laguno teaching us about the importance of calcium for our overall health.

Till next week.

Peter