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Three ways to be more influential at negotiating

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Your software allows your prospect to be more creative with its finances. Maybe your prospect can finance the purchase of your product instead. Let’s assume that your prospect can’t make a move for 30 days because they’re waiting on financing for some other project. Computers are fully capable of doing math.

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Guest Post: 3 Tips for Building Trust on your Team

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Susan Wells is a freelance blogger who enjoys writing about automotive and health news, technology, lifestyle and personal finance. An ego that hoards credit will destroy trust, but generosity of spirit will strengthen it.

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Unemotional Leadership—an Oxymoron

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Andrew Cravenho is the CEO of CBAC Funding, an innovative invoice finance company. Generating that interest is what leadership is all about and charisma plays a large role in successful leadership. That is why unemotional leadership is an oxymoron.

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Leadership and Product Management

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Accounting/Finance: This group is often completely ignored by product management. The sales people who “get it&# will feed critical information back to product management to improve the products, but they will not expect things to change overnight or for their next sale.

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Manager vs. ?

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I think about the things I manage (personal finances, household, a team of people). In product management, I believe they have to change in order to evolve. Your insight on “managing&# versus “owning&# is interesting. However, when you own something, that’s different.

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Guest Post: Watch Out for Flying Monkeys!

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Maintaining a relationship with executive administrators, travel, finance, sales and development can provide valuable information on travel schedules, agendas and the details that will reinforce the emergence of Flying Monkeys. Another avenue that many product management leaders fail to utilize is internal relationships.

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