David Ackert, Co-founder and CEO of Ackert, Inc. and its subsidiary, PipelinePlus joins Enterprise Radio. His new book, The Short List: How to Drive Business Development by Focusing on the People Who Matter Most is an Amazon bestseller and Gold Winner of the 2025 Nonfiction Book Awards.
This episode of Enterprise Radio is in association with the Authors Channel.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest David Ackert discuss the following:
- What inspired you to write this book?
- Why is traditional networking broken?
- How does The Short List methodology help people achieve their professional goals?
- Why is The Short List methodology more important in the current landscape?
- What have you personally learned through the process of writing and promoting this book?
David Ackert is co-founder and CEO of Ackert, Inc. and its subsidiary, PipelinePlus. He’s a highly regarded business development thought leader and has pioneered revenue acceleration programs for hundreds of professional services firms around the globe. He has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, the National Review, the Daily Journal, the Wall Street Journal, and others, and his Market Leaders Podcast has won several JD Supra Reader’s Choice Awards. His new book, The Short List: How to Drive Business Development by Focusing on the People Who Matter Most (Greenleaf Book Group, January 28, 2025), is an Amazon bestseller and Gold Winner of the 2025 Nonfiction Book Awards.
Website: https://www.pipelineplus.com/the-short-list
Social Media Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.ackert
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidackert
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