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4 Ways to Build a Productive Sales Culture

Harvard Business Review

If we use an automobile analogy, sales efficiency (SE) initiatives — like CRM, training, and KPI dashboards — improve the engine’s horsepower. Companies will spend about $30 billion on CRM alone by the end of 2015, according to Gartner. A confusion between efficiency and optimization plagues many sales efforts.

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13 Challenges to the Current State of Leadership

CoachStation

If the goal, target or KPI is 80 and someone is consistently at 70, help them to find the gap. References: (1) https://hbr.org/2015/06/the-top-complaints-from-employees-about-their-leaders (2) [link] (3) [link] . This remains one of the biggest negative influences on successful leadership and how others see you.