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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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How to Fix the Most Soul-Crushing Meetings

Harvard Business

Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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It’s 10 AM. Do You Know What Your Sales Reps Are Doing?

Harvard Business

Sales executives with even moderately large, distributed sales forces rely on data to help them understand which activities and behaviors lead to the best outcomes. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles. At the highest level, Workplace Analytics can provide a factual foundation for decisions on sales structure and roles.

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What is Project Accounting?

Progressus

Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central + Progressus A Total Solution for Project-Centric Organizations Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a comprehensive, cloud-based ERP solution for small to midsized businesses, connecting sales, service, finance, and operations to work smarter, adapt faster, and perform better.

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Asset Management – Industry Overview (Part 1 of 4)

Tom Spencer

The asset management industry is a steward of money provided by individuals and institutions, and manages this money in order to meet the unique return objectives of each client. If the PM is seen as a driver of AUM, whether through sales or performance, he can command a much higher share of the proceeds than a PM who is not.

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Is Your Business Ready to be Sold?

Martinka Consulting

For reference, my first three questions to owners are: Have you worked with a financial advisor to see how much money you need from the sale to support your next great adventure in life (and do you know what your business is worth – not just what you want for it)? What will you be doing after the sale? Pretty straightforward, right?