Topic

process

A collection of 176 issues

Write It Out For Me

"When I ask them to write down their sales process, they can't do it." A fascinating conversation with a former business software sales leader turned later-life entrepreneurial NED. Who with me was pushing at such an open door, the hinges are soakingly oiled and there's a big flashing 'please enter'

What To Pay Out On?

"You've done your job, they should pay you the commission." These were the words to me of an experienced fellow rep in my first ever Enterprise solution sales team. I'd been ecstatic to win a lovely deal. Only for the conglomerate corporate HQ of the subsidiary client to cancel it,

Mapping in Circles

After eleven years, it's time to update my London Underground concentric-circles-and-spokes map. Completely redrawn from centre to edges, it's so much better than before, and more geographically accurate than the official map. pic.twitter.com/WMd8fkdphY — Tube Map Central (@TubeMapCentral) August 6, 2024 At inception an all-time classic in diagrammatic

Beat Your Beep

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kfm 94.5 🇿🇦 (@kfmza) I did enjoy this audiophile assessment of the Men's 100m Olympic final. An epic race for the ages. The 200sec-clip this breakfast radio circus crew shared above was inspired in part because their local man came an

xSales

I knew football has its xG measure. For Expected Goals. Loosely, or tightly depending on your view, based on the likelihood any created chance is statistically scored. Now I learn of cricket's equivalent; xW. Expected Wickets. It too looks at chances created to earn a dismissal. And is further involved

Process Means Goal

I remember watching live on Sunday night tv, the Panenka. Champion winning innovation. Next day in the school playground lapping up trying to emulate the incredible, deceptive, delicate dink as keeper dives away from the centre of the goal. Half-a-century on, we now have the Toney. Somehow, misfiring England reached

Test and Measure

I can often tell when a salesperson is unlikely to be one of the top performers. When I ask them about their process, they are vague, misguided or dismissive. Here are of four of the ways I hear these. They trot off the name of a, maybe even the latest,

Whilst Sales Productivity Isn't Quite Everything...

"Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long-run it is almost everything." Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman Given my recent, latest productivity related wail, I was astonished, ashamed even yet hardly surprised, to learn (via London's Telegraph Matthew Lynn) that UK public sector workers' output continues to crash. The past

Coherent Game Model

There's a lot of rot talked of succession planning[1]. I'm not a fan of what passes for the most common misguided efforts in this regard across the corporate world. It misses out on the fundamentals. The underlying mentality and systems that genuinely create sustainable, repeatable, adaptable success. Which are

Forensic Ecologist Digs

"The more symptoms, the better the diagnosis." As her Amazon profile states; 'Professor Patricia Wiltshire is a forensic ecologist, botanist, and palynologist [the study of plant pollen and spores], and also has a background in environmental archaeology. She has worked with every police force in the United Kingdom, and on