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The Strategy vs. Sales Conundrum

The Strategy vs. Sales Conundrum Why Your Company Needs a Strategic Customer Profile Only customers buy. That may seem like a tautology, but it is a very pithy rule of selling. A market never buys anything. Closing a sale to a customer is the “final mandatory step” in connecting any strategy with business development efforts and sales results. So for most companies, the de facto strategy is…

Autocracy vs. Democracy: The Splinternet

The Web Is A Key Prize In The Global Information War A Global Alliance Is Required To Defend the Internet From Autocracies Who Seek To Control It In November of 2013 Bill Gates was attending a conference in Germany, and was asked if he was concerned about “balkanization of the Internet,” the growing trend toward islands of authoritative control of the Internet. He replied, “China is really the…

Preventing Stale Remote Work Relationships

Early in my career, when I began working for a leading high-tech company in California, I was asked to manage international marketing, and one experience has stuck with me as a key observation about remote working.  A colleague was asked to move to our European HQ and to work directly with me in California. This was pre-Internet. We had phones and telex messages on long rolls of paper. My…

Our Approach to What We Do

The Oxford University Model

Our commitment to our clients is to provide exceptional value to them for their businesses. To achieve that goal, it is necessary to understand the communication environment needed to facilitate relationship-building, the foundation for successful consultation, and retained understanding that can be translated into results for the client. The recent rapid transition…

Tech is Global, Right? Not Exactly!

China’s Authoritarian “New IP” Proposal Supported by Huawei, Iran, Russia, and Saudia Arabia The “Splinternet” Is Becoming a Global Battleground

1964 was a harbinger of the future we now inhabit, but no one knew it at the time. It was the year of the Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the University of California Berkeley, the first stirrings of the cultural revolution to come. FSM epitomized…

From Growth To Survival And Then Who Knows? Hidden Harmony Within

As a teenager I had the habit of asking myself odd questions. One of the most enduring of those “questions to myself” involved asking if there was some possible mathematical order to hideously complex physical phenomena like smoke rising from a cigarette. My question remained unanswered for decades until in 1987 I stumbled on

“Impromptu Strategy” Is Not An Oxymoron!

Advice For Dealing With Uncertainty

This five-minute read may be the most important thing you do today. I say that humbly. Uncertainty is the new normal about everything. Think about it. The extent and scope of unexpected changes to the way things are done is global. Reacting and responding to this uncertainty is now the basis for company and personal survival. This is why I now say that…

You Must Give Your Life It’s Meaning

Be Your Own Compass: The Survival of Your Business May Depend On It

While I was still in university, I was sitting on the grass on campus one afternoon, and out of the blue, I was struck by the fact that I didn’t much care anymore what other people thought of me. At that moment, I realized that the most important thing in my life was what I thought about myself, the goals I set for myself, and…

“Zoombombing” Is Now Itself A Global Pandemic

Zoombombing Zoom has become a target for harassment and abuse coordinated in private off-platform chats.

By Taylor Lorenz and Davey Alba

In recent weeks, as schools, businesses, support groups and millions of individuals have adopted Zoom as a meeting platform in an increasingly remote world, reports of “Zoombombing” or “Zoom raiding” by uninvited participants have become frequent.

I need to confess that I’m a procrastinator. I have always been a procrastinator, dependent on bursts of energy and productivity to compensate for my weakness. I have managed to make procrastination work for me. I believe that many people see me as a highly productive and successful person, and I probably am, but I need an impending deadline to focus myself and do my best work. I have also been…

Can Your Internet Service Provider Handle Covid-19 Work From Home? Is your home router able to handle all the devices on your local area network?

Last week I wrote about some of the issues that I have personally encountered in setting up my own professional “Work From Home” (WFH) equipment and infrastructure. I only mentioned the Internet infrastructure by recommending that you get the…

WFH Is The New Normal So Understand What You Need And What Works And What Does Not Work My Own Personal Best Practices Guide For Remote Work And Streaming Communication

Hello! welcome to the 2020 update #6 of Mayo615’s French Odyssey and how to transform Big Ideas into Big Realities. I work from home. WFH is the new…

So, How Does That Work?

With the first reported cases in Cyprus, the coronavirus is now present in every country in the European Union, health officials said on Tuesday, hours after Italy imposed sweeping travel restrictions across the whole country.

But the measures taken by the bloc’s member states to contain the virus varied widely from country to country, often with little relation to…

The Survival of Your Business Is At Risk

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Denial, misinformation, and lack of information are the enemies

This week I have had a flood of watershed moments trying to unravel the hairball of facts from the fiction flying around in cyberspace. I began the week believing that Covid-19 was most likely more serious than…

How To Survive This Recession

Streaming Digital Communication Emerging As A Critical Corporate Recession Resource

At New Year’s I posted “Looking Ahead to Greater Uncertainty.”

https://mayo615.com/2020/01/02/2020-looking-forward-to-greater-uncertainty/

 In hindsight my post was tame compared to what has occurred since.  In January, I first…

Welcome To Mayo615 Technology Partners Ltd.

All 436 Blog Posts Are Still Here! We have morphed into a business and a blog

Please take a tour of our new website and blog, and let us know what you think, and how we can assist you. The blog remains an integral part of who we are