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Roy Barker December 20, 2017Marketing, Salesautobiography, choose, first step, Marketing, MDS, Moore Diversified Services, roy, Roy Barker, sales, senior, Senior Living, success

Choose Your Own Biography

We Decide Our Own Path As we close 2017, most of us are still planning for both business and personal success in 2018. Some of us may have realized our 2017 plans did not work out as we had originally intended. This realization doesn’t mean we have to throw up our hands and pack it in for 2018. Rather we, at any time, can effect and create the change we desire in our lives! I listened to an inspiring interview … Continue reading “Choose Your Own Biography”

roybarker.com December 14, 2017January 15, 2018developmentAssisted Living, barker, communities, comparison, Development, differences, dunks, Independent Living, MDS, Moore Diversified Services, opportunity, roy, Roy Barker, senior, Senior Living, skilled nursing care, starbucks, success, successful, types

Are you a Dunks or Starbucks?

As I was getting my morning coffee at Dunkin Donuts, I was looking around and had a stark realization. Dunks and Starbucks are both very successful business models that serve basically the same products and yet have very different environments and price points. Coming from the South I had never given it much thought, it was pretty much Starbucks with Dunks just starting to develop properties in the area. But now, after residing in the Boston area for some time, … Continue reading “Are you a Dunks or Starbucks?”

roybarker.com December 7, 2017December 18, 2017Business, Employee Retention, Manager, Planning, Recruiting Talent, Senior Living Operations, Strategic Planning2017, 2018, employee, employees, MDS, Moore Diversified Services, planning, quality, roy, Roy Barker, success, talent, Training

Executive Management Challenges for 2018

How much thought have you given to what 2018 will bring? The new year is quickly approaching, and everyone is scrambling to finish off 2017 with a bang. Many executive management and leadership teams will be thinking about all the great things to come and will be planning for successes in 2018. Many more will be riding the waves of success they had in 2017 for a while and hoping it will get them through the first quarter of the … Continue reading “Executive Management Challenges for 2018”