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How to Build a Better Sales Playbook

LSA Global

What Is a Sales Playbook? Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Sales Strategy. Sales Culture.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent.

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3 Things Are Holding Back Your Analytics, and Technology Isn’t One of Them

Harvard Business

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. An analysis of an unbiased sample (or the entire population) would have yielded a different result. (Of Methodology. The dichotomy continues when it comes to methodology.

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Pay your team right: A comprehensive guide to compensation

Asamby Consulting

This blog post gives you the comprehensive answer: Why compensation is important How to structure your fixed salary components What options for variable pay are there How to pick the right perks and benefits What allowances are and what to pay them for What long-term incentives are out there How strategy and finance influence compensation Let's go!

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Consulting Case Anatomy – A Simple Breakdown

Management Consulted

The advantage of the methodology and scoring system is that it lets the firm standardize their results across the company, so they can make sure they’re getting the best candidates even with a distributed interviewing model. It may test an industry or practice area focus, like technology, operations, or finance.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

” “I was working in a wine shop during my undergrad and started to realize that I was able to close more sales by being a trusted advisor to my client rather than acting like a sales rep. When I started out in the program, I quickly realized I was never cut out for finance or accounting.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

With these criteria in mind, our final list is as follows: Our analysis revealed characteristics shared by the winning firm’s leaders as well as common strategies they employed. Because dual transformations typically take years, we used a 10-year time frame in our analysis. We always urge you to read the methodology carefully.