Renovating and consolidating the TBK Consult web sites

Executives do not search Google for consultants to help them solve serious business problems. Management consulting is a relationship business and potential clients reach out to you because they know you or have been referred to you, by someone they know and trust....

Building Successful Partner Channels – the video series

Microsoft has asked TBK Consult to provide tutorial content on how to overcome the challenges with building and growing an indirect sales channel and we have produced 5 short posts for their Smart Marketing Portal....

Budgeting in big and small companies – do you know the difference?

Budgeting and planning in small and medium-sized companies are not a sandbagging game that determines our destiny in the company. People approaching the exercise with such an attitude will not last long in this environment. Budgeting and planning in small and medium-sized companies require taking off the masks and...

It is sandbagging time again – are you ready?

Accepting a budget we don’t believe in brings us into a psychological mode of proving we were right. Any option of proving that we cannot deliver will be used in a self-destructive approach towards failure. As a manager in the corporate environment, we must always be prepared to walk...

The magic happens when you want to make the world a better place!

When Özlem launched Classloom.com in April 2015 just a few months before the summer break she didn’t expect much traffic. She thought that teachers were busy wrapping up the year and wouldn’t have time to study a new Teacher-Parent-Student communication tool until after the summer break, but fortunately, she was wrong....

The 6+4 habits that will make you stand out from the crowd

Trustworthiness is the most crucial character trait in any relationship. All other virtues fade in comparison when we keep failing to deliver on our own commitments. Irrespective of how small they are and to whom we have made them. Take charge and become proactive....