Management is about making choices and setting priorities. We have to choose to do somethings, choosing not to do others. We have to set priorities and maintain focus. Choosing everything, setting everything to a top priority, consciously or by default (otherwise known as piling on), is a sure path
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Paying Attention
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4725 days ago
In this world of hyper activity and business, I think too many of us find ourselves in the situation of How did I get here? We get caught up in meeting after meeting, constantly being interrupted by emails, texts, tweets. We go through the motions we always have gone through--often on auto pilot.
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Quantity or Quality
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4726 days ago
Not so fast----the answer quantity or quality may not be that obvious. In reality both quantity and quality are important in sales.
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On Collaboration And Partnering
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4727 days ago
More than ever before, collaboration and partnering are critical to business success and sales. Internal collaboration--marketing, sales, customer service --- all working together to grow the business; external collaborations--working with channel and business partners in reaching customers; collab
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What Would Your Customer Say?
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4731 days ago
A major part of what I do for a living is to help individuals and organizations improve their performance and sales effectiveness. I participate in a lot of meetings where I'm asked to review the sales effectiveness initiatives of organizations.
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It's Not About The Questions, It's The Conversation
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4733 days ago
But questions aren't the fundamental issue--conversations are. Questions are an important part of establishing a conversation, but I think focusing on questions creates an inbalance and may, in fact, detract from our ability to have conversations.
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Questions, Questions, What Are The Right Questions?
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4733 days ago
I've been involved in a number of conversations about questions recently. They've covered topics like, what are the best questions, what should we avoid, and other areas. These questions are always difficult to answer, because so much of the time, the best response is, It depends.
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Will That Be One Funnel Or Two?
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4734 days ago
My post yesterday, The Death Of The Funnel, Long Live The Funnel, stirred up some interesting conversation. I thought I'd continue to stir the pot by challenging the notions of marketing and sales funnels. Frankly, I'm not sure why we ever needed to have two funnels (maybe it was some marketing VP
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The Death Of The Funnel, Long Live The Funnel
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4735 days ago
I’ve been reading a lot of articles, some from people who should know better, declaring the death of the funnel. I have to admit, I get frustrated and tired with a lot of this talk. But more importantly, I think it demonstrates a complete misunderstanding about what the funnel really is.
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Management Reviews: More Discussing, Less Reporting
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4738 days ago
These meetings are such an enormous waste of time. We can accomplish much more than simply reporting and reviewing what has happened. The real value of the management review--for all participants is the discussion.
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