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7 Variables to Transforming Yourself for a Competitive Advantage

Iannarino

Transformation is difficult, but it helps to know what is required and how transformations fail. Most people fail to complete the journey, even when they want or need to change. When something works for a long time, it’s difficult to consider doing something different. Unlearning is as important as learning. Strategies.

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The Only Two OKRs for Sales

Iannarino

The idea of the OKR (Objective and Key Results) comes from Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel in the early seventies. Grove had an admirable penchant to treat his sales force as the best source for figuring what was going on with Intel’s clients. He listened, learned, and made adjustments. There is no reason to accept my OKRs.

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How You Should Switch Your Pitch

Iannarino

The Gist: Many thought leaders recommend that you should not pitch your clients, a model that suggests not starting with “why us.”. Some salespeople believe you should follow your client’s lead when it comes to the sales conversation. What you need to do is “switch your pitch.” A View of Your Client’s World.

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Cold Calling Books: The Top 6 Must Reads

Veloxy

There are some thought leaders who disguise the term cold calling with ‘warm calling’. But when the prospect picks up the phone and is greeted by someone who they’ve never heard from before, yet the caller knows quite a bit about them and the business, it’s still a cold call. And you want to know something? Top 6 Cold Calling Books.

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Leadership Malpractice

Partners in Excellence

This post and topic may be viewed as controversial, many executives and leaders will be offended. Too often, leaders fail to take action with performance issues in their organizations. Too often, leaders fail to take action or do the wrong things. I hate to start posts with a disclaimer, but I will.

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The 10 Best Entrepreneurial Books That Everyone Should Read

ClickFunnels

If you are an entrepreneur, a small business owner, or an influencer, you know the struggle of managing your business through your page, blog, channel, or any other platform. But the question is, who can you trust when it comes to sustaining your business? So, who will you trust when it comes to that? who’s to tell).

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3 steps to determine if AI is the answer to your problem

Martech

A common refrain from thought leaders is that marketers need to get up to speed on AI as quickly as possible and that it’s not going to be a differentiator for your marketing department, but instead, table stakes. This is not to say your content marketing team can’t use AI to write blog posts, but have you created an AI governance policy?