Posts tagged: Corporate Success

Sometimes You Have To Take Your Lumps

A big lesson that I have learned in the Corporate World in the past and has just come back to teach me again is that sometimes you just have to take your lumps. Sometimes you know you are right but the pecking order prevails and someone more senior than you wants to teach you a [...]

Don’t Be So Quick To E-mail That Slide Deck

One of the things that I have learned fairly recently is to hold back on sending some of your slide decks out via e-mail. There are several reasons for this but the most selfish reason is to ensure that you get in front of your target audience. What is the harm in just e-mailing out [...]

Do Your Homework Before Meeting With A Corporate Client

I know this sounds obvious but make sure you and your team have all of your homework done before meeting with a client. I can’t even begin to tell you how many times vendors have met with me and my co-workers thinking they could “wing it”. It is so obvious that they did not do [...]

Beg For Forgiveness Instead of Asking For Permission

The concept of begging for forgiveness instead of asking for permission was foreign to me until I spent a few years in the corporate world. When I entered into the corporate world I thought that I would just work harder than everyone else, do exactly what I was told and then be rewarded. Boy was [...]