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Let’s Talk About Lean Manufacturing For A Moment….

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So much of what our focus in “modern selling,” seems to be the adaptation of Lean Manufacturing techniques into selling. We’ve created “assembly lines” with specialized functions, passing our customers from one station to the next. One of the biggest areas of waste is the product itself.

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Our Customers Are Changing Faster Than We Are!

Partners in Excellence

There seems to be an arrogance or conceit in so many of the conversations I see about the future of selling. My feeds are filled with new technologies, new selling models, new engagement strategies, new organizational structures. As a result, sellers are playing a losing game of catch up. Win rates are plummeting.

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Start With The Customer

Partners in Excellence

We optimize the overall equation on our goals and our preferences–revenue, expense, headcount, productivity, and so forth. They don’t care about our organizational structure, they don’t care about our selling process or strategies for demand gen. Edward Deming and Taiichi Ohno and the Toyota Production System (TPS).

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The Future Of Work Is About More Than Work!

Partners in Excellence

” We look at, how do we reduce onboarding time, how do we maximize productivity during that time? We redesign knowledge work, emulating the principles of the industrial assembly lines of the past. them passing the work to the next person in the knowledge worker assembly line. The problem is at the top!

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How Do Customers Prospect?

Partners in Excellence

. “We are looking to buy electronic components to use in a new consumer product we are developing. ” “We are expanding our factory capacity and need to add a new assembly line, can we talk about your products as a potential solution?” Don’t they know I don’t sell that stuff?

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

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We Need To Change The Selling Conversation!!

Partners in Excellence

I just listened to an outstanding webcast on the future of selling, conducted by four close friends. I am a student of their work, they are among the smartest thinkers about selling I’ve ever met. It seemed, unconsciously, the conversation around selling gravitates to SaaS selling.