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Dave Wakeman’s 3 Keys To Negotiating Anything…

My family considers me their go-to negotiator… While I am not ready to write a sequel to The Donald’s The Art of the Deal, I can offer you a few tips that will make you a bit better in your next negotiation. 1. Have Goals: Too often I’ll deal with clients or sales people that will say […]

You Can Learn A Lot From This Government Shutdown…(And, It Isn’t What You Think)

As anyone with a pulse probably knows, we are in the middle of a government shutdown currently with the added pressure of the looming need for the country’s debt ceiling needing to be raised or we won’t have enough money on hand to pay our bills which would put the United States in default for […]

3 Reasons Why The New Pope Needs To Be A Good Project Manager

I’ve got my TV turned to NBC right now, waiting to see who the new Pope is…probably like a lot of people all over the world. (Full disclosure: I’m not Catholic, but I do find the ceremony pretty fascinating.) While we don’t know who the new Pope is going to be, we do know that […]

How Can We Create Jobs?

Just a few minutes ago, I was reading this morning’s Washington Post and a column by Robert McCartney called ‘The $1 billion question: How can we create jobs?’: Mr. McCartney writes about one of the founders of the Carlyle Group, Bill Conway, and how he wants to give away half of his wealth before he […]