article thumbnail

What’s Wrong With Detailed Gantt Charts and How to Make Fewer Details Work for You

Johanna Rothman

In addition, I ask teams to show visual progress , such as in a demo. I want architecture feedback loops as early as possible in the project, which is why I want visual progress with demos. Yes, Little's Law and the flow metrics rule our work. See Predicting the Unpredictable for more details.) That increases WIP.

How To 70
article thumbnail

How to Build a Better Sales Playbook

LSA Global

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. Sales Talent.

Sales 28
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

If you’re in the same boat – wanting to break in, but without a strategy – check out what we have to say below, and feel free to sign up for a Power Half Hour. I eventually built up a little demo reel, and I started presenting that to other companies. I think that’s my strategy. has functions out the wazoo.

article thumbnail

4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Harvard Business

The playbook sounds simple: attract prospects with content relevant to each stage of their buying journey and extend offers that motivate them to contact your sales team for a demo or discussion. But as Churchill reportedly said after Gallipoli , “However beautiful the strategy, you must occasionally look at the results.”