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Why Does Your Sales Plan End in December?
If you work on a traditional annual sales plan, you’re probably scrambling right now trying to put together a plan and budget for next year. At the same time, you’re still responsible for finishing this year. You’re looking at results, making assumptions about what’s coming, figuring out where growth will come from, deciding what your team needs to do differently, and trying to put numbers around all of it. Then January arrives, the new plan officially begins, and you start working through it. Something interesting happens as the year progresses. Your twelve-month plan gets shorter. Your Planning Horizon Keeps Shrinking…
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Your vision shouldn’t be something you create, admire, and then forget about. It should change what you notice day to…
Leadership Adjustments
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been asking you to put yourself back in learning mode, look for the gaps…
Question What You Think You Know
If you’ve ever played Clue, you know how easy it is to develop a theory before you have all the…
Mind the Leadership Gap
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Put Yourself Back in Learning Mode
Back-to-school season gives us permission to revisit something we think we already know. For an inside sales leader, that might…
What Creates Believing?
What do you believe about yourself as an inside sales leader? Not what your title says. Not what your boss…
Quick Thought on Leadership Work
In the sales world(s) where there is a never-ending string of urgent things to do, sometimes working on the kind…
Easy Leadership Recipe
It’s funny, I was thinking about writing a post called “Recipe for Leadership” when I realized that needs to be…
Spotlight on Tim Ohai
If you check out The Zen of Strategic Execution on Tim Ohai’s website, you’re confronted with the question “How confident are you…
Inside vs. Outside ≠ Inbound vs. Outbound
One of the clearest explanations I’ve seen recently came from Reddit, which pointed out something that trips up sales leaders…