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You Can’t Do Strategy Without Input from Sales

Harvard Business Review

It’s a great ethnographic study of B2B selling for capital goods. But the disconnect between sales and strategy (in this case, a lack of strategy to deal with a technology that is redefining the market and customer behavior) is the hidden subtext of the book. Thomas is doing his best to maintain Xerox’s share in copiers.