Project Management

It Never Hurts To Ask

Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

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Harry:       Haggle properly. This isn't worth 19.
Brian:       You just said it was worth 20.
Harry:       Burt!! (calls in large friend)
Brian:       I'll give you 10.
Harry:       That's more like it. (outraged) 10!?! Are you trying to insult me? Me? With a poor dying grandmother! 10!?!
Brian:       11.
Harry:       Now you're getting it. (outraged again) 11!?! Did I hear you right? 11? This cost me 12. You want to ruin me?
Brian:       17.
Harry:       17!
Brian:       18?
Harry:       No, no, no. You go to 14 now.
Brian:       14.
Harry:       14! Are you joking!?!
Brian:       That's what you told me to say. (Harry registers total despair) Tell me what to say. Please!
Harry:       Offer me 14.
Brian:       I'll give you 14!
Harry:       (to onlookers) He's offering me 14 for …

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It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.

- James Thurber

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