Posts in Motivation
When Even a Bad Leader is Dependable

Respect time, yours, and others. If you tell someone you can meet at a certain time, you have made a promise. Being on time shows others that you are a person of your word, that you are dependable, and your word can be trusted.

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Leadership, Not Management

In mature markets and interchangeable products, in disruptive businesses and first-to-market situations, …when you need salespeople to do incredibly hard things, when they need to overcome rejection every day, they need to be bought into the vision. That is the fuel that keeps them going.

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Doing Business in a New Age

What about your greatest asset, your people, your employees? Who is tracking their data? How do we know when they need to be serviced, given a tune-up or a break, physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually? And yourself?

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Hope Is Not a Strategy

It comes out so easily because it is soft; it is non-committing. We don’t want to be wrong, giving incorrect information. On the other hand, to hope for something to happen is to want an outcome that makes our life better in some way. Envisioning a better future motivates us to take steps to make it happen.

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Winery Clubs - D2C At Its Best

In recent years they have done a fantastic job on me! There are charges on my credit card, and in turn, I receive very regularly the ‘gift’ of a great variety of wines unavailable in my local wine store.

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Selling With a Paradox Mindset

Choosing one side of a paradox would be delightfully clear and easy. Though the world is not black and white, it comes in all shades of gray, it is nuanced, and there are no easy answers, no silver bullets.

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Uncoachable!

Don’t let the negative behavior go on forever. Do everything you can to test if the person can be coached, and then move on when necessary. Time doesn’t make things better -- only action does.

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Sales-Centric or Corporate Soldier?

For me, there is no alternative for a company or an individual to being sales-centric. If you want your business to grow, all parts of the organization have to be focused on selling, and there is no room for “corporate” behavior. Very few products or services sell themselves.

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Building Real Confidence in Sales

In the world of sales, confident people really are more successful. When you increase your and your team’s confidence in sales, you’ll set more meetings, have stronger sales presentations, and close more deals.

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The Humble Leader

One of the best ways is to adopt the humble mind-set of a servant leader. Servant leaders view their key role as serving employees as they explore and grow, providing tangible and emotional support as they do so.

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