business development

Making Solid Business Decisions: 7 Things that You Must Know

by Donald McMichael
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photo: Simon Doggett via Flickr Why are bad deci­sions made by capa­ble busi­nesses? Busi­ness deci­sions are typ­i­cally green-lighted, if not made directly, by sea­soned peo­ple within an orga­ni­za­tion, then why is it so hit or miss? After all, isn’t deci­sion mak­ing some­thing that we as indi­vid­u­als do mil­lions of times a day, day in and day out? […]

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5 Cornerstones of a Powerfully Successful Business Development Pitch

by Donald McMichael
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photo:  Aladair Mid­dle­ton via Flickr You live and die by the pitch in busi­ness.   Pitch­ing is not a sci­ence nor an art & sci­ence it’s pure art. You have mere min­utes to impress your audi­ence and with suc­cess or fail­ure hang­ing in the bal­ance a tight rel­e­vant pre­sen­ta­tion is key.    There are tons of […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Insights #35

by Donald McMichael
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I’m back after tak­ing a break last week for the Memo­r­ial Day hol­i­day here in the US. As, always I’m look­ing to share with you qual­ity infor­ma­tion that helps increase our busi­ness devel­op­ment skills, enhance our level of busi­ness model inno­va­tion, and ulti­mately the qual­ity of our pro­fes­sional rela­tion­ships. While I never going into depth […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Insights #33

by Donald McMichael
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  Fam­ily, a rev­e­la­tion hit me this week about this blog series. The base premise has been that I would high­light the five most inter­est­ing post that I read dur­ing the week. I have always focused on posts that were deliv­ered dur­ing the past seven days, but what if I read for the first time […]

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Warning: 8 Point List Might Get You to Your Destiny Faster

by Donald McMichael
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Do you know where you’re at? Are you cool with that? If not con­tinue read­ing to under­stand an 8-point check­list that focuses you onto the right coor­di­nates. Whether you’re an entre­pre­neur, employee, or retiree you can ben­e­fit from peri­od­i­cally step­ping back and tak­ing stock. After all, we do liken our­selves to a vision­ary who enjoys […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #30

by Donald McMichael
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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 Chris Saad comes at it from a unique angle. […]

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MBA: Negotiating Genius in a Pinch">60 Second MBA: Negotiating Genius in a Pinch

by Donald McMichael
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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 the deal in your favor […]

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