gatekeeper
From ancient cities to cutting-edge companies, gatekeepers have controlled access, permissions and message flow for centuries. If you’re developing sales for your company, working successfully with gatekeepers isn’t just good to know – it’s a competitive necessity.  Here are three tips for shifting your attitude about gatekeepers and how to approach them.    Bypassing the Gatekeeper Should you bypass a gatekeeper? A more important question is, are you cold-calling? The…
magical feedback
You might not know this, but companies that place in the top 100 Best Places to Work substantially outperform other companies – in productivity, stock price, retention … pretty much across the board. Why is that? Because typically those companies have a great team culture and that makes a huge difference. Old-school thinking would tell you that culture doesn’t matter that much – but the difference between a great team…
Tradewind Energy wind farm
Tradewind Energy Inc., a Lenexa-based wind farm developer, recently was named as the 2017 No. 1 utility-scale wind developer by the American Wind Energy Association. The company’s output was 1,247 megawatts (MW) out of more than 7,000 MW developed by all utility-scale wind projects in the U.S. That accounts for nearly 18 percent of all wind-generated power in 2017. “Tradewind has established itself as one of the leading wind and…