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Sales Success – Strategy or Mindset?

Strategy Driven

Does it include a comprehensive prospecting plan for getting in front of the right people followed by a methodical sales process and the right tactics executed by a well-trained sales staff? If you answer yes to all of that and there is still a gap between desired and actual results, you might not have a tactical or strategic problem at all.

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The Skills of Kindness: a guide for sellers, coaches, leaders and facilitators

Strategy Driven

Cognitive Dissonance: When the content we share – words, questions, information, education, advice, written material – goes against someone’s (conscious or unconscious) personal beliefs and system of Self, we cause Cognitive Dissonance and resistance regardless of the efficacy of the information. often fall on deaf ears.

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Relational Leadership and Employee Retention – A Match, part 2.

Strategy Driven

Leaders sometimes forget that new hires are a reflection of the belief systems they established. Every attempt must be made to integrate the company’s value system into its hiring profiles. New hires must reflect the company’s core beliefs. It reinforced all the people-centric policies of the company.

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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

It's the company's deeply embedded belief system, its prevailing ethics, and the way people within the company interact with each other and with customers. With hardware markets, money is spent upfront to develop a system. You see evidence of companies' different DNAs in the ways they react to risks and opportunities.

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Facing Challenges | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While I might spend a bit of time evaluating the most efficient strategy for getting to the other side of said wall, it will ultimately be my focus on the tactical execution of conquering the challenge that will determine my success. M [link] mikemyatt Hi Mark: You point about chosen beliefs is an astute one.

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