The Dialogue between Sales and Strategy

Even within the realm of sales management, it’s important to recognize the interacting dimensions that must be managed to link selling effectiveness with strategy. – Excerpt from the book, Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling Excerpt from tomorrow’s Business901 podcast with the author Frank Cespedes:  Joe: Well, I guess I’ll start where Read More …

A Company Where Everyone Knows Everyone’s Salaries

Marin Andrews is the founder and CEO at Cogent – a software business in Melbourne. Since 2007, Cogent has been an ongoing successful experiment in running an open, values driven business. They use skills in strategy, design and development to help customers build useful products. Cogent is also a place where Marty helps create his Read More …

Dialogue and Conversation Stack

This is a collection of 24 – Business901 Podcast Transcriptions, called Stacks (see below) through my Issuu channel: Conversations A collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions that centered on Dialogues and Conversations. Several people included are Mark Burgess, Craig Weber, Irene Etzkorn and 21 others. Stacks are a new way to organize your own publications, as Read More …

Developing a Lean A3 Marketing Plan

  Creating a marketing plan on an A3, or a single sheet of paper in not much of a novelty. However, if you think for a moment about A3 reports and the traditional Lean Problems Solving A3, you will see a similarity on how I have organized the A3 Marketing Plan. In A3 Problem Solving, Read More …