Writing to Win

Want to distinguish yourself from the competition and get your projects funded? I have led and coached teams in industry and the non-profit sector to win billions of dollars. Keep reading to learn what works.

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  • Why project don’t stay on track 

    The most common criticism of publicly funded projects is that they are so often over budget and behind schedule. There is no shortage of famous examples. High-speed rail in California, the Big Dig in Boston, and the Channel Tunnel. Most of them are completed eventually and produce amazing results like the Hubble Space Telescope, the…

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  • Into the Crisis

    Into the Crisis

    Whether at work or at home, our lives are in the middle of an AI-driven transformation. Just as the proverbial frogs in the heating pot, we struggle to find fitting analogies that comfort. Is this like the dot-com boom, and subsequent bust, of the late 1990s? Is it like the introduction of the personal computer,…

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  • You won. Part II

    You won. Part II

    In Part I of this two-part article, I wrote about winning as only the first step in building a lasting relationship with a sponsor. That piece was focused on the researcher who, in the end, only has to report on her results. In this companion piece I am writing for the leaders of teams that…

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