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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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It’s All About the Customer – Failure is Death

by Donald McMichael
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  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 […]

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

by Donald McMichael
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  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 […]

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MBA: Rescue Your Negotiations; 3 Commandments">60 Second MBA: Rescue Your Negotiations; 3 Commandments

by Donald McMichael
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  Today’s tip on nego­ti­at­ing comes directly from a con­ver­sa­tion I had with one of my neigh­bors Marty. It is often said that great neigh­bors are the result of a strong fence. If that’s the case then out­stand­ing neigh­bors are those who have a knack for shar­ing appro­pri­ate knowl­edge & wis­dom. There were def­i­nitely some […]

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