by Eli Goodrich | May 7, 2015 | Business, Careers, Life, Sales
In February 2015, I was approached by a seasoned and well published writer, Judy Messina, regarding an article for Crains, NY. The essence of the story was, “Senior” Entrepreneurs who launched businesses, essentially after 25- 30 years of working for...
by Eli Goodrich | Jan 28, 2015 | Blog, Business, Careers, Life, Sales
In the middle of 2014, I was fortunate to meet Jonathan Taylor, who was putting together a book on Golf and Business. He asked me to write a chapter, a contribution. Most certainly he struck two great chords for me: (a) Golf as a life-long duffer and (b) Business....
by Eli Goodrich | Nov 10, 2013 | Blog, Business, Sales, Software
This is one of my all-time favorites. I actually hear this about 75%+ of the time when discussing a sales program with a company CEO. I am getting good at predicting when they will toss out that gem in our first conversation. Of course, this cannot be farther from the...
by Eli Goodrich | Aug 31, 2013 | Blog, Business, Careers, Sales, Software
I would return each year from College back to Long Island from Indiana. For three years, I was a “summer manager” for a Long Island newspaper. This was essentially a fill in role for route managers, typical 10 -20 year veterans, who worked full time and took off...
by Eli Goodrich | May 30, 2013 | Blog, Business, Life, Software
Truly I am, and all though I always suspected this was the case, once I launched my own start up – I discovered this to be the uncompromising truth. I have, we all have had, some “delightful” managers in our careers. For example in the early days I had a...