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Monday, July 31, 2006
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VOLUME 3
ISSUE 119
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July WorldWIT Website Columns
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Passion, Vision, and Practicality
A Recipe for Entrepreneurial Success
by Sue Welch
In this week's guest column, Sue Welch, CEO for TradeStone Software, offers tips on how to balance one's entrepreneurial passion, vision, and practicality to ensure business success. "Be willing to continually reassess what is happening around you and don’t be afraid to alter your vision to integrate what you see." Read on for more visionary tips on balancing vision with your passion and the practical needs of your company.
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A Downsized Sample Generates Big Time Business
Selling Skills for Non-Salespeople
by Janet Ryan
 I’ve been thinking a lot of late about a reader’s challenge of finding business for a service that is not yet mainstream. With limited budgets and limited time, she has to get really smart about how much time she invests in calling for appointments and digging up prospects. The key is to cast a wide net and let the best prospects find her.
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That's Dr. Sweetheart to You!
Pinch Me...or Don't
After two years of local executive-level employment with an international corporation, a peer was promoted to be my new supervisor. Although my performance and education level exceeded his, he had seniority and was firmly entrenched in the good ol' boy network. Treating me as a recent college grad rather than a doctoral candidate with solid work experience, he attempted to educate me in basic math skills. During a project, I asked him to repeat a number and he stepped behind my desk, pushed my chair WITH ME IN IT into the wall and proceeded to demonstrate how to calculate percentages on an adding machine! It was so absurd that I laughed and told him that I understood percentages as well as multivariate statistical analysis. He responded, "Sweetheart, I don't know what training you've received since starting"! Shortly thereafter I was targeted for dismissal, but am happy to report that I am now Dr. "Sweetheart."
-Denese, ChicWIT
Send your true Pinch Me...or Don't story to Anne Jennings.
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Ask Liz will return next week. Send your work/life question for Liz Ryan to annej@corp.worldwit.org.
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WorldWIT News
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Reprocessing and Rebuilding
In a recent "Life in Progress" blog posting, Juliann Grant speaks to women's ability to process and adapt to change. "The rate at which our minds switch and hop around without really noticing is mind boggling and we digest information at such incredible rates." What impact does this have on our personal and professional lives? Do you agree with Juliann that this is a distinctly feminine and distinctly twenty-first century phenomenon? Take a look and leave a comment on the blog to continue the conversation.
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Contact Info
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Questions? Comments? Write to info@worldwit.org. To submit an article, a question for "Ask Liz" or a story for "Pinch Me...or Don't", send an e-mail to Anne Jennings.
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