How Much History Helps Focus on Future Sales?

Cleaning up data is expensive in both labor hours and new software configuration, data loading, as well as updating past accounts by the salespeople. The time required and the cost were a function of how many months of historical data is desired and meaningful towards future success. 

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Just Tell Me the Price

"Just tell me the price." "How much does it cost?" "All I want is your best price." "Can you just give me the price?" "How much is it?" "All I am looking for is a price." "What is your best price?" "How much?"

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Are You at Your Level of Incompetence?

What is worse than realizing you put the wrong person in a key seat? Realizing that you yourself have reached a level of incompetence. This is referred to as Conscious incompetence: In this stage, you realize that you do not know how to do something or did it wrong. You begin to feel discomfort because you acknowledged your mistakes or shortcomings to yourself.

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The Perspective of the Scale-up CEO

Beyond their qualities, skills, and character traits, here are a few demographics: they tend to be younger (most sources place the average between the late thirties and early forties), they have a technology background, and they were not in business during the last recession in 2007/2008.

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How to Only Make Good Decisions

What if we encounter decision fatigue with our doctor, with the admissions officer handling our application, or when fundraising for a startup? What if we observe it with ourselves? After a day of many decisions, we are less patient when asked to make another, we take less time to consider the impact, and the decision turns out to be not as good as those made earlier in the day.

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Turning Risk-Taking into a Numbers Game

We all have the ability to interpret the same situation differently. What looks like a smart risk to one person may be a dumb one to another. The Smart Risk Equation is simply a framework you can plug your own variables into that will help you draw a picture of the risks you want to take in your life.

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How To Get Out When Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Capital investments are postponed. Operating costs are constrained. And, perhaps most importantly, headcount is reduced. It’s a tried-and-true response to an economic downturn.

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The Relevant Market for a Matchmaker

Competition law knows to define a “relevant market.” It comprises all those products and/or services that are regarded as interchangeable or substitutable by the client by reason, among others, of the products' characteristics and their intended use.

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4 Tips to Fearlessly Achieve Your Goals

A key individual that the Chiefs would have never won the 2020 Super Bowl without? It’s not Patrick Mahomes! That man is Brett Veach, the General Manager for the Chiefs. He is an excellent case study of effective leadership.

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Hybrid Work Is Just … Work

Months into hybrid work, not everyone agrees on how it’s going. Employees and employers are divided. Many leaders yearn for the office life of 2019—hallways abuzz with chatter, coffee overflowing.

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