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The Case For Remaining a Private Company
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The Teacher Could Be Wrong
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Encouraging Intrapreneurship
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Selling Sense and Sensibilities
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Tom Nies Featured on Expert Access Radio
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A Focus on Enterprise Software – Wall Street Reporter Interview –
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Smithsonian Museum of American History Interview with Cincom CEO Thomas Nies
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World Business Review: Software Problems Facing Businesses Today
The software industry seems unstructured, even haphazard.
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Anxiety and Its Antidotes
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Lessons from Venice
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Putting the burden down
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The Teacher Could Be Wrong
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Tom Nies Accepts Carl H. Lindner Award for Outstanding Business Achievement
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Cincom CEO Tom Nies Featured in Smart Business Magazine
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Cincom’s 40th Anniversary Recognized in Times Square
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International Stevie Awards Honors Cincom’s Tom Nies As “Best Executive”
Follow Thomas M. Nies, Cincom® Systems’ Founder, President and CEO, has won an International Stevie(TM)
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Awards & Recognition more »
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Tom Nies Accepts Carl H. Lindner Award for Outstanding Business Achievement
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Tom Nies to Receive the Carl H. Lindner Award for Outstanding Business Achievement
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Harvard Business School Features Cincom Case Study
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Cincom Founder Tom Nies Inducted into Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame
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Other Recent Articles
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Mastering the Art of Entrepreneurial Leadership
Leaders deal in ideas. They also deal in ideals. The more relevant …
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Mentoring, Monitoring and Mobilizing
What we do well, we enjoy doing. And, the better we become at something, the more we enjoy its doing — and the better we want to become by doing. Even minute successes or levels of progress engender a greater desire to return to the activity or challenge, enhance and expand the enjoyment […]
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The Science of Selling as an Art Form
All decision making processes are both rational and emotional. These two processes are sometimes hard to separate but they are both at work, especially in sales cycle. Selling becomes an art form when a seller tries to incorporate logic, which will appeal to the rational side of the decision, and present images, appealing to the […]
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Anxiety and Its Antidotes … For Business and Life
“Dum spiro spero.” – Motto of St. Andrew’s Golf Club Anxiety! When a person is confronted with some significant event or experience that is believed to be both important and uncertain they may feel anxious. This anxiety-generating situation may be one that is filled with possibility and opportunity, or danger and threat. Either way, anxiety […]
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Marketing Insights Gained from Military Strategy
All of recorded history confirms that the relative strength of a nation’s military power largely determines the degree it can assert and enforce its imperialistic, economic and political aims. The waxing and waning of its relative military power tends to closely correspond with the rise and fall of nations. Similarly, the relative power of […]
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Cincom: A Software Powerhouse
When asked about software giants, Microsoft usually comes to mind. But, I recently discovered Cincom.
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Principles Rule: Mastering the Art of Business
Entrepreneurial success is about understanding and mastery of key principles, not about following rules
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A Vanishing Skill: Stories, Storytelling, Story Selling
Explaining the difference between Truth Stories and True Stories.
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Mind Our Mindsets … Move the World
“Can the problems we face be solved by the same minds that created them?”
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Cincom CEO Thomas Nies Speech at United Nations
Thomas Nies, founder, president, and CEO of Cincom Systems, urged executives, diplomats and officials to simplify their information technology management in a speech delivered on June 27, 2006 at the 18th Annual Information Security, IT Infrastructure, and Business Continuity Conference and Exhibit at the United Nations
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Cincom Honored by Smithsonian
Dr. David K. Allison interviewed Mr. Thomas M. Nies on August 30, 1995.
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Hamburgers and Software: What Could They Possibly Have in Common?
Software and Hamburgers don’t seem to have much in common, but when you look at the history of fast food chains McDonald’s and Wendy’s it becomes easier to see parallels between the two and Cincom.