Here is the follow up to our First Ever UnSelling Video Blog. Here is some fresh advice on how we can be practical and honest with our prospects to pull out the truth without wasting our time or theirs. Check it out!
Tag Archives: Opportunity Assessment
Don’t Go “All In” Until You See Your Whole Hand
First, let’s take a look at Consultants R Us’ completely dysfunctional opportunity assessment plan: Consultants R Us has no common opportunity qualification screening criteria to determine whether an opportunity is actually worth pursuing. They pursue any and all opportunities most likely because the entrepreneurs who came before them made their livelihood as rainmakers without many […]
Why Play if You Won’t Win?
I was coaching a team at Andersen Consulting several years ago that was sent a “blind” RFP from one of the largest Consumer Packaged Goods companies in the world. This was likely a $60M + opportunity and the pursuit team was intent on bidding for the work.