Top 5 themes from our 2024 podcast guests

We started hosting guests on If Prices Could Talk at the beginning of this year. It’s been a great journey, with lots of learnings for me through in-depth conversations with our clients, partners, and network. We’ve talked with executives and indu…

3 ways to avoid the pitfall of stale pricing

Originally published on Forbes.com Prices get stale. And for good reason: markets are changing. Your competitors are coming out with new products and services. What’s important to people is changing. The motives behind your customers’ buyin…

The 6 stages of negotiation emotion

There are the 5 stages of grief. There are 5 levels in the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. There are Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development (forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning). I got to thinking, what are the most common …

Pent up demand gets the PE flywheel running again

Polish up your value creation toolkit – the 2023 freeze in private equity deal activity is about to thaw.All businesses, from startups to MM to the F500, operate with a business model flywheel. In PE, we can simplify this into four steps: raise ca…