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5 Posts that Help You Buck Business Convention and Succeed

by Donald McMichael
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This week my 5 favorite busi­ness and strat­egy post cover: Why buck­ing busi­ness con­ven­tion is often a good thing. Why com­plex sys­tem pat­tern recog­ni­tion should be your arse­nal. Bet­ting on your clients to help grow the busi­ness. As, always I’m look­ing to share with you qual­ity infor­ma­tion that helps increase your busi­ness devel­op­ment skills, enhance your level […]

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Warning: This will get you and your boss’ head nodding

by Donald McMichael
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“Who are these guys? They’re my theme music. Every hero’s got to have some.” — Jack Spade, ‘I’m Gonna Git You Sucka’ This has to be one of my favorite quotes from a movie. I’m pretty cer­tain no one is going to call me a hero. But, I do have a theme… check that a soundtrack. […]

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The Truth About Starting a New Business Successfully

by Donald McMichael
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Okay, it’s that time of year again where lists of how to close out the year right, get a jump on the next year, and how to lever­age the hol­i­day social scene pop-up like… well they are every­where. So much so that it forces your brain to tune out and every­thing starts to sound like […]

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What to Go Public But Can’t: This Method is Helping Growth-Stage Concerns Experience a Liquidity Event

by Donald McMichael
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photo via Flickr Topeka & Shawnee County Pub­lic Library With­out a $500 mil­lion val­u­a­tion any busi­ness con­cern look­ing to go pub­lic is being forced to cool their jets. Numer­ous sys­tem­atic changes, dri­ven pri­mar­ily by the con­sol­i­da­tion of insti­tu­tional investors and the sub­se­quent emer­gence of multi-billion dol­lar mutual funds, has resulted in the stock mar­ket no […]

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Value is Job #1

by Donald McMichael
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Ran across the post below on the Wis­con­sin Tech­nol­ogy news site WTNNews.com. It debunks (one of my favorite words) the myth that pro­fes­sional ser­vice busi­nesses need not worry about being per­ceived and treated as a com­mod­ity.  I know that this is some­thing I’ve always cir­cled back to sev­eral times over the last decade. How do you, […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Insights #36

by Donald McMichael
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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 about the finds, I encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing.  Think more about your […]

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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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