Hone your ability to quickly sift the wheat from the chaff and address what must be answered on an urgent basis.

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The purity of the supply and demand equation in the muni market and its resulting reflection on interest rate levels is where the wheat will be separated from the chaff and what investors need to embrace as their new bellwether.

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But still, reviewers depend on publishers acting as winnowers, sorting out the wheat from the chaff, and at least attempting to make sure that they are sent books they are actually interested in.

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Separating wheat from chaff requires both insight and an institutional culture that is tolerant of such decision making.

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If you have a trusted assistant who really knows you and your business, have him or her go through your email regularly and separate the wheat from the chaff.

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Yes, massive industry events are often better at sorting companies with and without stellar marketing budgets than the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, but it's also a necessary evil.

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It is too much information, too fast, and there is too much chaff intermixed with the wheat.

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