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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100905:11:40:00

Being competitive in the marketplace. our hotel client were saying, your prices are too high. ron fernandez was shugar s broker. he bought soap from shugar soapworks and, in turn, sold it to some of las vegas biggest hotels. but that wasn t enough to save the partnership. when fernandez learned he could source the same products he was getting from shugar for 25% to 30% less overseas. with the loss of the vegas business, shugar soapworks revenue plunged from $5 million a year to less than half of that. within one fell swoop, it really dropped significantly. things were not looking good for the company. but shugar wasn t ready to close the doors just yet. instead of sitting around saying, oh, poor me, why did i lose that could i have done something better no. what we have to look for is what s in the future. what s next here and the year after. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100425:11:47:00

you should have your key staffers as well. when the company needs to reinvent itself, so do the people. you want your key staffers in the mode of career reinvention. how do we move ourselves and the company forward. this moves into your next point which is ban excuses from yourself, from your employees. exactly. because reinvention is very much of a challenge. we re resistant to change. we like to do things we ve done. especially we re busy. we don t want to do it. i don t have time. you ve got to ban excuses. as i said, reinvention is insurance. it s important. you have plenty of time when your company is out of business. you don t want that to happen. exactly. give it time. nothing happens overnight. that s exactly it. the thing is, it s preparation and opportunity. you can control your preparation but you don t control when opportunity shows up. you ve got to make sure you have enough time to let something play itself out. don t try to reinvent yourself when you re in ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100425:11:42:00

Our hotel customers were saying, your prices are too high. ron dueppen was you shugar s brother. he bought soap from shugar soapworks then sold to hotels. it was excellent soap. that wasn t enough to save the partnership. when fernandez learned he could source the same product he was getting from shugar for 25 to 30% less overseas, with the loss of the vegas business, shugar soapworks revenue plunged from $5 million a year to less than half of that. within one fell swoop, it really dropped significantly. things were not looking good for the company, but shugar wasn t ready to close the doors yet. instead of sitting around poor me, why did i lose that? could i have done something better? no. what you have to look for is what s in the future, what s next. ....

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