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Halting Project Creep

I was party to a fascinating exchange yesterday. At the end of a meeting a company had delivered all that was required of it to signal the end of one phase of a project, allowing a pause before possible authority to embark on the next stage. This accepted delivery would

Perseverantia

After blogging the other day someone’s observation that determination trumps all [http://salespodder.com/determination-trumps-all/], I came across a study of teacher effectiveness [http://heathbrothers.com/2010/01/what-makes-a-great-teacher/] on the thoroughly engaging Heath Brothers blog (the guys that wrote Made To Stick). Whilst teachers are of course hardly

Talk With Sensitivity

Demonstrations of definitive thinking can enrage me when it comes to presenting figures. My recent work helping to craft business plans reminds me that the kinds of projected costs and revenues they deduce ought not be presented as absolutes. This also holds true for their sibling data, any sales proposal’

Screen Trees

Watching CNBC’s Planet of the Apps [http://planetoftheapps.cnbc.com/] I was intrigued by the inner workings and motivation of people in the latest goldrush. One company was inventing an app for tracking your expenses. Such apps are nothing new of course – I came across a web-based expenses solution

A Shill Confidence

Here’s one problem I can encounter when working to maximise sales of a client’s latest new product. The glamour and glitz of Launch is greeted with dark mutterings inside closed huddles of salespeople bemoaning the product’s shortfalls as catastrophic. When has each aspect of a new product

Won Sales Analysis

For over ten years, I’ve made a living (sometimes in full, other times partly) from capturing and sharing across sales teams deals that they win. My specific slant was always twofold; collect and codify any genuine best-practice that should be incorporated into any such similar deal, and pinpoint and

Boardman Bike Bites

Olympic gold medal champion Chris Boardman passes on long-distance cycling tips to a beginner [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/the-lycra-files/7740030/Chris-Boardmans-ten-tips-for-completing-the-Etape-du-Tour-The-Lycra-Files.html] in The Telegraph. A pair of points fascinated me about these. The first was how adaptable and relevant many of the headline hints are to

Sales Kitchen-Sinking

How long should a salesperson stay in a role? It’s an issue which can vex the best of us. I remember blogging [http://salespodder.com/optimum-length-of-tenure/] about this very thing over three years ago. Whether sales rep, manager or overall boss, one commonplace argument is that three years is

Determination Trumps All

I came across this fascinating statement from the website of a chap [www.paulgraham.com] that in part funds businesses: > “Two startups want to hire me. Which should I choose? The one with the most determined and smartest founders (in that order) is the more likely to succeed.” Yes!

Dream, Believe, Work Hard

What on earth was I doing when I was sixteen? Incredibly an Aussie 16-yr old has just circumnavigated the globe in her shiny pink boat. I certainly felt a twinge of age when I heard about this! There was no hesitation to dwell upon thinking up a marvel of inspiring