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The 7 Attributes of the Most Effective Sales Leaders

Harvard Business Review

High-performing sales managers focus on hiring salespeople who are skillful builders of relationships, are persuasive, and have a reservoir of experience they use to control sales cycles. Forty-four percent of underperforming sales managers indicated they had a nonexistent or an informal structured sales process.

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10 Leadership Battles – And How To Win Every One of Them

Terry Starbucker

We have to understand what’s going on in their hearts and minds – the better to pinpoint and address performance issues, as well as properly match skills AND personalities to key responsibilities. That school is now closed. SURESHKUMAR.S This is not pie in the sky, feel good fluff.