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recent bookmarks from jerrykingWant to land a big client? Here are four important tips2014-08-12T21:37:16+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-managing/leadership/four-important-tips-for-landing-a-major-client/article19887204/#dashboard/follows/
jerrykingmarketing business_development tips indispensable influence networking JCK due_diligence large_companies perseverance Communicating_&_Connecting value_propositions serving_others strategic_thinking client_development hard_work enterprise_clients hard_times office_politics Michael_McDerment the_right_people solutions solution-finders aspire_to_being_a_source_of_pleasure egocentrism what's_in_it_for_them?https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:877d50fed76f/If I was...setting out to be an entrepreneur - FT.com2014-01-20T09:35:45+00:00
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d5302bb8-40be-11e3-ae19-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2qu9PvWA2
jerryking>undervalued<< but can be dusted off, refurbished with vision and talent, and scaled up. I would be talking to venture capitalists....I know that proprietary technology is not a market maker by itself. Great marketing and management almost always trump big innovation.
Minnovation – small tweaks on existing products – is what moves the ball of economic growth forward. Neither Facebook nor Google, for example, were technology pioneers.
Big innovations are few and far between and are often the stuff of large companies with long patience and deep pockets....Next, I would drain my venture of passion and replace it with commitment, hard work and realistic and relentless >>self-assessment<<....start with a stark test of harsh neon lights [i.e. = "brutal honesty"], exposing every flaw and crack long before the market does so that I can fix them before the customers vote with their feet....plan one's passionless departure from the start, creating a platform to allow the talented people and partners I hire to outperform me very soon. ]]>entrepreneur entrepreneurship rules_of_the_game books Daniel_Isenberg advice howto passions exits lessons_learned turnarounds contrarians scaling minnovation undervalued under-performing carveouts family_business proprietary incrementalism self-assessment customer_risk breakthroughs large_companies refurbished spin-offs hard_work dispassion marketing management commitments marginal_improvements unsentimental outperformance unglamorous boring crazy_ideas vision rejuvenation resuscitation brand_equity depleted_assets brutal_honestyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:14f9ffea849c/"Structural Breaks" and Other Timely Phenomena -2011-11-03T05:08:00+00:00
http://adamsmithesq.com/2008/12/structural_breaks_and_oth/
jerryking>centers of gravity<<, and your client base. To produce a coherent, nuanced, and dynamic view of what's happening, there's no substitute for the hard work of thinking about this multi-dimensional chessboard, with almost daily midcourse corrections based on new data points and new conversations, essentially incoming at you all the time. ]]>Bruce_MacEwen McKinsey financial_history ratios strategic_thinking talent_pipelines structural_change howto customers Five_Forces_model competitive_landscape situational_awareness course_correction disequilibriums accelerated_lifecycles dislocations hard_work dynamic simplicity crisis discontinuities strategy centers_of_gravity marketing professional_services_firms law_firmshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3d4c1bfff4e2/