How Good is Your Digital Footprint?

Kristin Zhivago is president and co-founder of Cloud Potential LLC. They offer best-practice analysis and improvement of a company’s digital impact, mostly working with companies that have historically done well in their space but are now being surpassed – even blindsided – by those who operate at cloud speed and use cloud-based tools. They are instructing managers Read More …

Managing Your Sales Engagement

Download a PDF of the Host A3 Yesterday, I wrote about  The Solutions Focus: Making Coaching and Change SIMPLE by Paul Z Jackson and Mark McKergow in the blog post, Toyota Kata a Solution-Focused Approach? I actually found Solution Focus from reading McKergow latest book, Host: Six New Roles of Engagement.  In the book, the author uses Read More …

Getting thru a Sales Problem

Tim Sanders has spent most of his career on the cutting edge of innovation and change. He was on the ground floor of the quality movement, the launch of the mobile phone industry and, most notably, the birth of the world wide web. He was an early stage member of Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s broadcast.com, Read More …

Look for Patterns, Not Problems

Most people can see and solve a problem, and certainly an organization can do that. What salespeople should try to discover are the patterns that are associated with the product/service that they provide.  In Henry Cloud’s work,Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life, he discusses two types Read More …

Breaking thru Sales Deadlocks

Dealstorming” is Tim Sanders’s term for a structured, scalable, repeatable process that can break through any sales deadlock. He calls it “a Swiss Army knife for today’s toughest sales challenges.” Dealstorming: The Secret Weapon That Can Solve Your Toughest Sales Challenges drives sales innovation by combining the wisdom and creativity of everyone who has a stake in the sale. About Read More …

Addressing Customer Behaviors

Drinking a little Service Dominant Logic (SD-Logic) juice, I feel that the value the majority of organizations offer centers on the use of our products and services. The actual value a customer derives from our product or service.  Few of us would argue, but most of us continue to focus on the function of our Read More …