Advice for Sales Leaders on Strategies

In a recent podcast, I ask Frank V. Cespedes, a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Unit at Harvard Business School, some final advice to those sales leaders that are developing and implementing sales strategies. Frank’s latest book is Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling. Related Podcast and Transcription: Sales Strategies Read More …

Sales Strategies with Frank Cespedes

Frank V. Cespedes is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Unit at Harvard Business School. He has run a business, served on boards for start-ups andcorporations, and consulted to many companies around the world. He is the author of five books as well as articles in Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, California Management 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 …

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 …

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 …