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Your hosts are David C. Baker of ReCourses, author, speaker, and advisor to owners of expert firms, and Blair Enns of Win Without Pitching, the sales training and coaching program for creative entrepreneurs.

2bobs.com

Dec 19, 2018

Blair describes to David how he was able to distill his Win Without Pitching approach into a simple formula:

P=db/D

Power = desirability / Desire

 

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Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt

Economics in One Lesson Wikipedia page

Henry Hazlitt Wikipedia...


Dec 5, 2018

After touching on the topic of risk in many other episodes of this podcast, David and Blair finally take a full episode to discuss at length the role of risk in entrepreneurship.

 

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"Confessions of a Recovering Consultant" by Blair Enns

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

Twitter exchange with Jonathan Stark on risk

Strategic...


Nov 21, 2018

Blair gets David to admit that he was kind of wrong about open book management being just a fad when he originally wrote about it almost two decades ago, and David offers ways that it can actually benefit both employees and clients when used appropriately.

 

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Financial Management of a Marketing Firm by David C....


Nov 7, 2018

Blair and David analyze and then look beyond the requests for reassurance potential clients make during the late stage of a sale to address their underlying motivations.

 

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“Transtheoretical Model” (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983; Prochaska, DiClemente, & Norcross, 1992)

 

TRANSCRIPT

DAVID C. BAKER: Blair, today I...


Oct 24, 2018

David disagrees with Blair (sort of) on his model for growing existing accounts in the post-AOR era, and then offers his list of 6 ideas on the topic.

 

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The Peter principle

The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson

Tony Mikes

 

Transcript

DAVID C. BAKER: Today Blair, we are coming to you live from the...