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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like . . . a Book!

The joy of milestone moments may explain why I’ve stayed so long in Proposal Land, even in the face of some not-so-joyful days and nights:  the feeling of accomplishment with another stage completed, and the satisfaction of creating something new.  Those feelings may also help to explain why others also work on RFP responses again and again.   It’s a good thing for proposal managers to keep in mind when choosing proposal team members, and while managing them for peak results.

Those feelings aren’t unique to RFP responses, of course . . . Continue reading“It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like . . . a Book!”

Style-Manual Travails

RFP responses are supposed to look as if one person wrote them. Everybody says so. This is one reason we use style manuals, to standardize usage, terminology, punctuation. Over the years, I have happily ignored the preferences of proposal team members. “What matters,” I said, “is not that it be ‘right’ in some sense, but that it all be the same.” And that’s true enough, but not always comfortable.   Continue reading“Style-Manual Travails”