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Same as it Ever Was… But Worse

4:58 pm

We're not going to nail it. Nothing could be truer in this day and age when it come to business planning. Undertaking exercises in long-range planning and forecasting assumes that the business' contextual environment has a level of stability and certainty… well at least enough to make us feel

How to Win Friends and Stifle Competition

12:14 pm

If you’re King of the Hill and there is another that’s banging on the front door you protect your house (top of the line iPhone) by making sure that all your flanks are covered. That’s the virtual role of the iPhone 4S and the line’s new pricing structure. As pointed out in a New York Times

RIP Steve, job well done.

7:51 pm

Here is a Method That is Helping Niche Businesses to Boost Sales

2:22 pm

I have the pleasure of teaching entrepreneurship at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) in NYC. Being a New York City based business school cloaked as a design/art institute provides fertile ground for discipline mash-ups.  The attached article from FT.com details the rise of retail mash-up,

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

8:30 am

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

Value is Job #1

5:17 pm

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

5 Fav Business and Strategy Insights #40

2:18 pm

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

Are You Trustworthy? – Seriously!

5:05 pm

I just finished going through Jeff Thull’s most recent book “Mastering the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes Are High!” Jeff is a master sales consultant and this work beautifully lays out the three evolutionary phases of consultative sales. The Eras Era 1: The Presenting

5 Fav Business and Strategy Insights #39

4:35 pm

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

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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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