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Tomato Paste Leadership Part Three: How to create more time with your family by Domenic Chiarella, 7 of 7 BEST Business and Life Strategies, LLC How to create more time with your family? And what does that have to do with…How to make Mouth-Watering Pasta Sauce? Welcome to the last part of Tomato Paste Leadership. My favorite mom-in-law, Annuciatina aka Nancy, is jumping out of her skin to finish explaining her methods, the last steps in her secret recipe. It was one of her few possessions that was brought to you from a small town in Italy, Boville Ernica, some 72 years ago. At the end of this post, Nancy has a treat for you. She promised to show you what magic she does with these jars!!!!! Me? I enjoyed sharing the past two parts of leadership with you. They gave me so much success and I made them a consistent part of my life and a part of my business. Part One, I shared how to create your primary aims in life. A written guide that can help you to have great decision making powers and to lead the life of your dreams. Part Two, Taking your primary aims and creating a written one page strategic objective for your business. Results? The ways for everyone in the company knowing the who, what, when, where, and why of the business. This last part, I am sharing with you a quick, simple way to start / continue the delegation model of leadership. Going from command and control management to a more collaborative management system. Let's get started!!! The year was 1947. Living in Boville Ernica, Italy for the first 17 years, Annuciatina with her mom, Mamma Maria left their proud little town for a better life. With everything they owned, they took a ship and a month later, landed in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her dad, Nicola worked in the coal mines and saved enough money to bring them to USA. There life was hard, working was dangerous, language barriers, and making ends meet. But the love of
family, the culture of love, happiness, and delicious food. She met her husband, Antonio, moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, and away we go with jarring tomatoes!!! They also brought with them, some 72 years ago was a vision, a happiness and a recipe.... What was that vision? She let you in on the secret of making one of the greatest Italian red sauce for her homemade pasta. What does that have to do with leadership? Think about it, a vision of making the best pasta and the best pasta sauce, year after year. So that your family can have the best! Like a great business, making the best service to clients and employees, year after year. So that your clients and employees can have the best! It is the choices leaders make and how they follow through with leadership. And Annuciatina made the right choices to bring it here in USA and to hone it to perfection. She made the choices over the years to hone her recipe, to use what works and keep it or change what doesn’t and improve it. She discards what doesn’t work. Taking responsibly for correcting the course along the way. She knows what she wants and where she wants to end up. She communicated what the vision is and helps us get to the success of jarring the best tomato sauce, and to find... Happiness!! Now, let’s talk about the real reason you are reading this... The next step is the sealing of the tomato paste jars. You will be heating the seal jars for twenty to thirty minutes to seal the jars. Not to cook the tomatoes, more just to seal the tomatoes from bacteria. You have to be careful not the have the jars explode while boiling. An old Boville Ernica trick is putting some dish towels or in dialect Italian, mappina in the pan of water. Remove the jars with the handle, shake the jar to mix the ingredients, and store upside-down, cooling them off before we store them. Now you still must be wondering how leadership is related to jarring tomato sauce. I would be…. Let’s face it; the feeling of stress and overload can be synonyms with you, the business owner and your limited time. This infamous lack of time is the connection between the tools of system development and our limited time resource: which causes the feeling of stress and overload. You only have so many hours in a day. And you can only
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