Michael Marshall

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Michael Marshall has over 40 years of business experience to senior leadership levels and advisory/consulting in many markets and industries, national and global, with responsibilities in sales management, marketing, and business development along with a Ph.D. in business, MBA, and degrees in psychology and social human behavior before teaching internationally at university level (China, Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, United States) and US Embassy. He has over 58 professional business certifications to keep him highly competent. Michael continually seeks out knowledge with additional education, training, research, and experience, to keep on the leading edge of business effectiveness and business development. He has over 48 international publications on many business and business development subjects.

Michael Marshall is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn.

Special Reports

Similarities between Business Strategy and Military Strategy

Special Reports

Michael Marshall

Teaching Notes from an MBA and Post Grad Business Strategy Class Session. Amazingly, there are numerous similarities between Business Strategy and Military Strategy. By studying both, we can see the similarities of why certain things lead to success while others lead to failure; and why neglecting fundamentals lead to struggles...

CEO Insights

The Covid Virus is Stimulating the Evolution of Business

CEO Insights

Michael Marshall

It seems obvious to most people that businesses of all types are changing, adapting, and evolving in response to the Covid Virus and its’ effects on business. Observing this is continual daily everywhere. Discussing this with business owners, management, staff, and employees of all types of business and companies, confirm that...

Lifestyle and Travel

Will Employees Working From Their Home Due to Covid Be Allowed to Continue with This

Lifestyle and Travel

Michael Marshall

Are There Legal Issues with Bringing Office Employees Back to the Office? There May Be a Big Business Change and Culture Change Happening. Just when I was wondering when the 1st lawsuit would happen about companies trying to force employees to stop working out of their home remotely for the...

CEO Agenda

Individuals Quitting Their Jobs Causing Employee Shortages

CEO Agenda

Michael Marshall

Do you think this social and psychological phenomenon is new? Do you think employers and businesses have blindly neglected this potential problem and issue for so many years, that it finally happened? Do you think that this social and business evolution is long overdue? In the US news over the...

Success and Leadership

RISK MANAGEMENT: A BUSINESS FUNDAMENTAL

Success and Leadership

Michael Marshall

HOW YOUNG BOY SCOUTS 11 to 18 YEARS of AGE SEEM TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS WITH THEIR BOY SCOUT MOTTO OF ‘BE PREPARED’, THAN BUSINESS LEADERS, EXECUTIVES, AND MANAGERS. TODAY'S ISSUES WITH SUPPLY CHAIN AND PRODUCT SHORTAGES SHOW US THAT BUSINESSES HAVE FAILED WITH ‘BE PREPARED AND ‘RISK MANAGEMENT....

Education and Career

Are You As Skilled In business Development, Sales, And Marketing, As You May Think You Are?

Education and Career

Michael Marshall

I often receive questions asking about business development: What is it, how to successfully accomplish this and why do so many struggles with this? I teach advanced business development at Georgia Christian University MBA grad level and also coach/consult/advise and do training programs and special project assignments for business organizations....

Education and Career

Utilizing Root Cause Analysis In Business And Management To Solve Problems And Improve the Business

Education and Career

Michael Marshall

Have you ever questioned or wondered why some issues, problems and challenges do not seem to improve or get better? This is almost similar to throwing darts at a dart board and never seeming to hit the ‘bulls eye’ to score the higher points. Have you ever pulled weeds from...

Education and Career

How To Set Goals And Objectives And Successfully Achieve Them?

Education and Career

Michael Marshall

One of the most popular subjects that people ask me about is ‘How to Set Goals & Objectives and How to Successfully Achieve them.’ I am often asked about this subject from professionals of all types, students and many other people, globally. Personally, I have made a life-time study and...