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In our dealings with professionals, each of us has undoubtedly experienced instances where someone has not met their commitment. These failings can range from minor to considerable. They can be isolated or chronic. They can be mildly irritating to exceedingly vexing. They are never welcome.

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"I've Been Really Busy" And Other Tall Tales

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In new product development, teams usually don't seriously consider technical feasibility until they've selected a product concept for commercialization. Then, it's up to R&D to figure out how to make the product viable. As resourceful as a company's technical team may be, it can be challenging and risky to wait until after the project clock starts ticking before working to identify, develop or source feasible technical options.

However, what if project teams could begin this work prior to concept development activity? They can and they should.

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Go Find It BEFORE You Need It

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No, this is not a post about snug fitting men's underwear. Instead, it is about the importance for clients and consultants to negotiate and agree upon clearly worded and unambiguous engagement briefs.

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The Importance of Tight Briefs

Making and enabling professional connections is a business. Here's a look at it.

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Professionals attach value to having someone selectively connect them with another professional to explore collective benefit. What's this service worth?

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The Economics of Networking

Good can often be plenty good. It depends on how you choose to look at it.

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"Perfect is the enemy of good enough" is often used in connection with efforts to balance speed to market with product design optimization. There can be much more to it than that.

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It can be an appealing career choice. Is it the right one for you?

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Have you entertained the notion of becoming an independent consultant? It can be a very appealing career choice. It isn't the right one for everyone. Is it right for you?

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Many problems aren't necessarily complex. You just may not be able to solve them yourself.

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Many day to day business challenges aren't necessarily exceptionally complex. However, many of these need to be solved on aggressive timing and for various reasons your internal team may lack the necessary time, expertise or even an appropriately qualified network to get this work done. What should you do? Call "Fruber".

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A hunger for winning is a valuable character trait. It can also lead to questionable decision making.

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In most competitive environments, the day usually goes to the person (or team) that is hungrier. That is, those who are more eager and are more willing to do what is necessary to achieve their desired objective tend to win more often than others. Being "hungry" can be integral to success. However, hunger can also lead to poor decisions, if it clouds judgment.

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Keep your nose to the grindstone. Work hard and you'll be a success. Then, you will be happy. Something's fundamentally wrong with this thinking.

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Happiness is the Key to Success

OI is coming of age within consumer products companies.

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Many corporate practitioners are playing the open innovation game very differently today than they did even a few years ago. Let us count the ways.

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