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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #31

3:22 pm

While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The Struggle for the Right “Business Model”: Distraction or Imperative for Creating and Sustaining the Business? The essence of a business model is that it defines the manner by which a

5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #30

3:50 pm

photo via Donald McMichael While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. NYT Paywall, Huffpo Lawsuit – Symptoms of the same misconception In this post about survivability of the New York Time’s (NYT) paywall

60 Second MBA: Business Development Linchpin… Be Still For A Minute

12:24 pm

Today's tip on negotiating comes from our good friends over at Scotwork NA. Question: What is the first thing that you need to do before you enter a negotiation… or meeting? Answer: Prepare in advance. In negotiating this is how one makes the biggest impact on outcomes for the your team.

Come on in

3:42 pm

“You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to step away from the shore.” Nobel Prize-winning author André Gide

5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #29

2:06 pm

photo via Donald McMichael  While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encourage you check them out if they sound interesting.  Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. So What's Next? In this blog post Bruce Nussbaum, on of the biggest advocators of Design Thinking via his Business

60 Second MBA: Negotiating Genius in a Pinch

11:17 am

The March 31st post - 60 Second MBA: Rescue Your Negotiations; 3 Commandments - on negotiation drew a fair amount of interest. Why, because negotiation skills are important for everyone, no matter what they do for a living. It is something that most everyone uses often in life; skills to swing

It’s All About the Customer – Failure is Death

3:19 pm

I invite you to join me as I continue my… well let’s call it a voyage of discovery. Publicly, it all started last week with a post entitled “It’s All About the Customer; 5 Myths to Bust to Get There”, the premise is that businesses have/are moving away from selling a product to selling a solution by

60 Second MBA: Is Cultural Context Stymieing Your Business Development Effort? Are You Sure?

1:01 pm

Whether we recognize it or not we live in a global marketplace in which markets are local.   In years past it very rarely crossed our minds that we – when I say we I’m talking about us as individuals - would be interacting with both partners and customers from around the world on a daily basis. We

5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #28

1:31 pm

photo via Donald McMichael While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. When to Gamble -- and When to Fold? Innovation Strategies for a New Economy With regards to innovation it's not always best to be first. Business history is

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“At the end of the day, finance leaders have to be proper storytellers. You have to be constantly on top of your data and tell the story behind the numbers... The CFO has to be on top of information flow at all times.”

Gerardo Adame, VP Finance at XP Power, and Mark Partin, CFO of BlackLine

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