What Does Sales Want From Their Manager?

Dave Brock (Partners in Excellence) is recognized as a thought leader, sales and marketing, new product introductions, and strategic partnering. Dave helps organizations develop and execute high impact strategies and programs in these areas.  Not only a leading thinker and strategist, Dave further distinguishes himself by supporting his clients in the implementation and execution of strategies Read More …

6 Steps For Creating A Marketing Campaign

If there’s positive buzz AND we offer hope AND an enabling environment AND a sticky solution AND expanded comfort zones AND the right inviter This is the shorthand version of a change effort that Les Robinson depicts in the book, Changeology: How to Enable Groups, Communities, and Societies to Do Things They’ve Never Done Before. In the Read More …

Apollo on Sales Funnels

Bob Apollo is the founder and principal consultant behind Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, one of the UK’s leading B2B sales and marketing performance improvement specialists. Bob works with promising early stage companies to help them “Cross the Chasm” from early adopters to mainstream markets, and with established organisations to refocus their sales and marketing activities and Read More …

Agile Project Management: Highsmith A3

One of the best books I have read and certainly the one that has influenced me the most on Agile Project Management is Jim Highsmith’s book of the same name. I have referenced his material for many years on this blog. We are not short of Project Management books and Agile books, in general, but Read More …

7 Norms of Collaboration

In one of my favorite sales books, yes – I treat this as a sales book, The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups, discusses how to place inquiry at the center of effective change. For sales people, this is a topic that should resonate with you.  The latest research and one of the Read More …

Will Salespeople be replaced by Artificial Intelligence

An audacious claim: in 10 years, the job of salespeople will be replaced by artificial intelligence. But don’t think layoffs. Think radical transformation in how the existing salesforces organize their selling strategies. In this presentation, Anand Kulkarni discusses how LeadGenius and its clients are addressing old sales problems with fresh data and technology. Company search Read More …