Enjoy the pop of a champagne bottle being opened. You just put a leash on your first Big Dog. An international company on the Fortune 1,000 list is now your client. Following the arduous process of ...

Over the years of serving mid-size service firms, my firm has been asked to help fix a problem that is very vexing: one big client. Sometimes this might be more than one client. But the point is that ...

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When leaders of a B2B company learn that a top player in their target audience has heard of them and is interested in their products or services, it can be thrilling. After all, landing a “big-name” ...

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I had a meeting recently with an accountant and was led into his office while he was on the phone. I overheard him telling a client that he wouldn’t be able to get his work done as promised because ...

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