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 …

Hyken on Customer Service

Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, professional speaker and bestselling author who works with companies and organizations who want to build loyal relationships with their customers and employees and this week’s Business901 Podcast guest. I encourage you to take a look at the Shepard Virtual web-based training solution that focuses on bringing you and your organization Read More …

Don’t Start w Process, Start w Problem

In most of my presentations, I start at the very beginning by addressing the fact that for close to a decade now I have been presenting on the subject of using Lean in Sales and Marketing. Along the way, I have seen the gradual diminishing of Six Sigma influence and the rise of the Lean 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 …

Story Telling Stack

This is a collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions, called Stacks (see below) through my Issuu channel: StoryTelling A collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions that centered on Storytelling to include Transmedia and Visual Storytelling Stacks are a new way to organize your own publications, as well as any other publications that you find interesting. For your Read More …