Newsletter Archive
Sales unicorns cost more than you think
It’s great to have sales unicorns leading the charge. But you can’t build a repeatable funnel around them. Nor do you have to.
Let’s celebrate winners
We just watched history unfold with Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Let’s celebrate the winners.
Manage your career by managing your money
Getting stuck in a shitty company with a shitty boss sucks. It can be avoided though. One "non-business" tool to ensure you never to be stuck again?
What’s your growth philosophy?
When it comes to growth tactics in your business, your philosophy on sales and marketing plays a big role. Here are 8 things that contribute to mine.
Don’t be a big, dumb robot
Don’t let your quest for efficiency, or love of automation and process, turn your brand into something people can’t relate to.
Repeatable processes reduce risk
We tend to think of repeatable processes and playbooks in the context of scale. But it's not just about scale. It's about reducing risk and vulnerability.
You have more data than you think
Paul Daniels, public speaker and CRO at Intelligent Contacts, demonstrates how to expand your awareness to solve problems and reach goals using the periphery.
“Fixing sales” requires understanding what’s broken
Why do so many "solutions" not work when it comes to fixing sales? Because fixing sales at the organizational level requires getting to the root of the actual problem. Shortcuts, Band-Aids, and surface level solutions don't lead to sustainable solutions.
11 things that lead to bad decisions
Good decision making is a discipline. Here are 11 things I’ve found to adversely affect that discipline.
Learn how to build an operating system for your business
Want more clarity in your organization?
Want to improve how you and your team execute?
Want to eliminate “shiny object syndrome”?
You may want a business operating system.
Blame is the language of the weak
We’re all making mistakes, and if you aren’t, you aren’t trying hard enough. But blaming yourself does nothing to move forward.
4 mistakes I made as a first-time CEO, and how to avoid them
4 mistakes I made as a first-time CEO and how to avoid them with the right systems.
Sometimes your job is to let it burn
In leadership, your job isn't to put out fires. It's to prioritize, evaluate resources, and quite often, let fires burn.
Our podcast is live!
Our podcast, Sales Leadership Foundations, is now live. See who we have and find out where to listen and subscribe.
Leadership and courage
At its most fundamental level, leadership is all about courage. The courage to…
Why we can’t audit just one part of a sales organization
When we audit sales organizations, we look at people, process, and product. We've tried to look at just one, but this is why it doesn't work.
The 10 most common issues discovered in sales audits
Every audit we do of sales organizations is different, but we’ve uncovered some common patterns. These are 10 common things we see holding businesses back from driving more sales.
“Wisdom and maturity in action”
Drawing on Seth Godin and Stephen Covey, the habits and practices for effectiveness seem to be the same for people as they are for businesses.
Organizational operating systems create competitive advantages
At the organizational level, it’s one thing to learn. It’s quite another to convert learning into action - rapidly.
The former requires a culture of intellectual honesty. The latter requires a culture of disciplined execution.
A review of Scott Leese’s book, From Rep to Manager
A quick review of Scott Leese's book, From Rep to Manager originally recorded for the Sales Leadership Foundations forum.