Posts in Change
The Remote Productivity Gain

Having worked from home and having led home-based and hybrid sales teams, these were always myths to me. But I guess it took the pandemic and the forced experiment almost all companies undertook about a year ago to expand the idea beyond sales and beyond those companies that had progressively embraced it already.

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Merging Sales Teams After an Acquisition

Merging sales organizations and ensuring that they deliver the revenue synergies is hard work. On paper, especially when grasping for straws to make the deal work, it always looks logical and makes sense. It almost always ignores the human aspect of sales: the team, the clients, and their interactions.

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5 Signs Your Small Business Is In a High-Growth Phase And Needs a Fractional CFO

We’re talking about 5 signs your small business or start-up is in high-growth mode and how you can collaborate with a Fractional CFO to ease the pain.

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5 Reasons to Hire Independent Professionals

Why should business owners and CEOs hire small, independent professionals, as opposed to other, more traditional options? Here are her top five reasons.

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Wait Here, Let Me Talk to My Manager

What has been your worst buying experience? Mine continues to be buying a car. The process is broken, ripe for re-engineering and disruption. The proverbial car salesman is not dead! And they all attend the same old school of playing games.

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Revenue and/or Profitability Issues?

In today’s market place no business can afford to stand-still. In fact, it is impossible. One is either moving forward or going backward. And hopefully going forward with profitable new name revenues.

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Self-Reflection

Researchers have shown that we think more than 50,000 thoughts per day, of which more than half are negative and more than 90% are just repeats from the day before.

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The 10 Types of Innovation

How do you tell your R&D team that while you value their work, their innovation on Product Performance matters the least to customers? The executive I was with has had this very conversation and was able to demonstrate how, for his business, Customer Engagement was the most impactful type.

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Optimism When the Going Gets Tough

Among all the blogs, newsletters, and publications that I follow, there was a recent uptick in the content on optimism. After months of news on pandemic, closure, stay-at-home, and recession, I guess we all can use some good news.

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