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When Winning Isn’t Winning

Posted by Rich Crowley in management, Negotiating

Many years ago, I had the opportunity to work with a seasoned executive who had run a tech company and who had orchestrated that company’s sale to a larger tech company, making lots of shareholders of the former very happy.   It turned out that I had been one of the initial users of his company’s flagship product many years before.   It was a wonderful product and was arguably the crown jewel that ultimately triggered the purchase of his company. What I found interesting was that all...

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