July 14, 2016 – Hosk's Dynamic Blog

Quotes

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. Napoleon Hill

#HoskWisdom

Every purpose needs a life #HoskWisdom
A company can save money on all parts of the business, but never on ideas#HoskWisdom
Training and learning are not the same thing. Many people learn nothing from attending training sessions. #HoskWisdom
Learning can happen anytime and anywhere you want it to #HoskWisdom
Stay curious and question everything #HoskWisdom
A CRM project is a way to align your business objectives with a CRM solution #HoskWisdom
Look to the future for opportunities no one else can see #HoskWisdom
Curiosity leads people to opportunities, courage turns opportunities into success #HoskWisdom
If you think you are always right, then you are wrong more than you know #HoskWisdom
If you want to make strategic decisions you must make time to think #HoskWisdom
Tell customers what to expect in their CRM projects so they don’t overreact to bumps in the road #HoskWisdom
Concentrate on the value, not the price of things #HoskWisdom
The value of a CRM project to a customer should be more than the price #HoskWisdom
Justify the price of a CRM project, do not apologise for it #HoskWisdom
You don’t get requirements from companies you get them from people #HoskWisdom
Defeat can either break you or strengthen you #HoskWisdom
If your CRM solution isn’t easy to use then the end users won’t use it and your CRM solution has failed #HoskWisdom
Excellent CRM projects are not created by accident #HoskWisdom
Don’t be surprised when mistakes happen during a CRM project, be prepared #HoskWisdom
You are unique and that is your greatest strength #HoskWisdom
Having a fried egg and a scrambled egg on the same plate somehow feels dishonest to eggkind #HoskWisdom
A lack of mistakes is more worrying than making mistakes, it means you’re not trying new things #HoskWisdom
Mistakes don’t hurt as much, when you learn from them #HoskWisdom
When ever you have to edit a web config there is always trouble #HoskWisdom #YeeWisdom
Put employees first and customers second, if you want your employees to give great customer service #HoskWisdom
You can achieve a little on your own or a lot with a team #HoskWisdom
When you criticise failure, you discourage innovation #HoskWisdom
Never look down on people who look up to you #HoskWisdom
If you think you know enough to stop learning, you have more to learn than you think #HoskWisdom
All I want is the people who like Peanut butter and Marmite to toast together in unity but with seperate pieces of toast #HoskWisdom
Time is your best friend and your worst enemy #HoskWisdom
if eating books transferred the content to my brain and they tasted like bacon, I would be a genius #HoskWisdom
Give a team direction and a sense of purpose and they will give you effort, engagement and results #HoskWisdom
Working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you always need to have fun, improve, deliver projects and make customers happy #HoskWisdom
Before you do anything, always stop to think #HoskWisdom
Don’t teach people want to think, teach them how to think #HoskWisdom
You can’t beat the great feeling when you find someone has already written a method which does exactly what you want to do #HoskWisdom
Great achievers motivate themselves #HoskWisdom
You are always a student of life, there is always much to learn #HoskWisdom
Life is short and time is fleeting, make it count and avoid all meetings #HoskWisdom
Shifting goals creates frustrated employees #HoskWisdom
A teams purpose, is it’s primary motivation #HoskWisdom
Every time you work on a new CRM project, you evolve #HoskWisdom
Each project has its own style and rhythm, you have to find the best way of working with the people involved #HoskWisdom
To be a great leader you must serve the people you lead #HoskWisdom
Your actions should help you get to where you want to be #HoskWisdom
Don’t just get opinions from people but understand their reasoning process #HoskWisdom
Understanding the way people form their opinions is more useful than their opinions #HoskWisdom
It’s not OK to hide from the truth, but you are allowed to be scared of it #HoskWisdom
You can’t control when you make a mistake, you can control how you react to making a mistake #HoskWisdom
The reward inside every mistake, is knowledge to change your approach #HoskWisdom
knowledge is a quest, mistakes are a mere flesh wound #HoskWisdom

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Articles of the week

Option-Set, Lookup or Autocomplete

This is an old post by I stumbled across this week and its interesting

CRM 2016 – What’s the best way to organise solutions in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

How you should organise your CRM solutions is a question that comes up a lot, the post discusses various methods.

Useful articles of the week

Microsoft Dynamics CRM User Guides

A link to loads of CRM users guides

free ssl certificates

You can get free SSL certificates, awesome

Best of the Rest

CRM 2016 – The importance of keeping the same guids between CRM instances

PowerApps and the Microsoft Common Data Model

MB2-712 – CRM 2016 customisation and configuration Hosk study notes

Why you first time fix rate is so important

CRM 2016 – How to enable languages

Create solutions that support multiple languages

Lessons Learnt: Understanding End-Users and Process for an Effective Dynamics

CRM 2016 – Failed to generate excel

Lessons Learnt: Understanding End-Users and Process for an Effective Dynamics CRM implementation

Fast vs. Furious: PowerBI + Dynamics CRM Avoid this common mistake and watch your data fly!

Web Resources Best Practice – Organize Web Resources in Dynamics CRM

CRM 2016 – XRMToolbox plugin store error – Unable to load one or more of the requested types

VOICE OF THE CUSTOMER – GOOD, BETTER, BEST

CRM Asynchronous Service Performance: Code Mania

CRM 2016 – Import error – A validation error picklist is outside of the valid range

Migrate Dynamics CRM On-Premises to feature-rich Dynamics CRM Online

Dynamics CRM and Azure Scheduler – The final pieces of the puzzle

Dynamics CRM and Azure Scheduler – Breakthrough!

Dynamics CRM and Azure Scheduler – a closer look at Azure Web Jobs

Other

Did Microsoft Acquire LinkedIn for the Cloud Business? (MSFT, LNKD)

Uber will ease the transformation to self drive cars

Azure rising: Microsoft will be largest Infrastructure as a Service vendor by 2019, says new Morgan Stanley survey

An Algorithm for Solving Problems

The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

The Hosk currently reading

The Hosk – just finished reading

TED Talks: The official TED guide to public speaking

7 out of 10. Great book, easy to read and great advice. It’s written in a way which felt like the author was giving your advice before giving a TED talk. It’s not ground breaking advice but it changed the way I thought about creating presentations and blog posts

Create a powerful, intriguing start to your talk, capture the audiences attention from the start
Finish strongly, this is what most people will remember
Focus on making the talk interesting
Use interesting pictures and few words
Practice your talk alot

Paisley: Smile On Me And Guide My Hand

6 out of 10. Good read but got a bit boring when the author kept writing the team sheet and going through too many individual matches.

An interesting read for Liverpool fans. I am interesting in the dynamics of successful teams and how managers lead them and create a great team spirit.

Bob Paisley was one of the most successful managers of all time, winning 2.1 trophies a season. Great leaders make things simple.

If you want to learn more about Bob Paisley and CRM, read the blog post below.

If Bob Paisley managed a CRM team

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