by Nick Anderson | May 3, 2021 | Alignment, Focusing Change To Win, Negotiating, Sales Effectiveness
Rackham & Carlisle’s research on the differences between successful negotiators vs. their average counterparts was illuminating. It had an impact as very few studies have investigated what actually goes on face-to-face during a negotiation, mainly because: Real...
by Nick Anderson | Mar 16, 2021 | Leadership, Nick's Blog, Uncategorized
Many people today are looking to the end of the Covid Tunnel and how to rebuild their sales pipeline. They may look to the latest app or system, but they have tunnel vision when it comes to understanding what their competitors are planning. It’s easy to buy technology...
by Mary Wong | Apr 3, 2019 | Nick's Blog
by Mike Shultz, President, RAIN Group If you have 40 items on your list marked as priorities, you might as well have none. In our latest Extreme Productivity Benchmark Report, we found that “The Extremely Productive” are 5.3 times more likely to prune...
by Nick Anderson | Nov 2, 2018 | Nick's Blog, Sales Effectiveness, Sales Management, Uncategorized
An account plan is essentially a change management plan. Strategic account management is, after all, about creating a vision and inspiring buyers with that vision of what’s possible and the difference you can make for them, if they were to align more closely and...
by Nick Anderson | Feb 3, 2017 | Sales Effectiveness, Sales Management
Most sales leaders at some time get stuck trying to fix things with more of the same, and not doing different things. Typical reasons: Fear of “sticking their heads above the parapet”(again) Not trusting their bosses, peers or their people Not trusting the new and...
