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Things Are Getting Confusing?!?

Partners in Excellence

Trying to understand the breadth of their products and how they go to market is confusing to them. The more complicated or confusing we make it for our customers to work with us in acquiring our products and in working with us, the more likely they are to go somewhere else–somewhere where it’s easier to buy!

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Maybe We Are Looking At Sales Productivity Incorrectly….

Partners in Excellence

It seems we fill the time doing more of that same stuff, rather than doing other things that may be neglected, or for which we have not enough time. We do more of those things. There was a time, sometime when fire was invented, when these productivity tools freed us up to do other things. And that confuses me.

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Settling For What We Get, Rather Than Getting What We Want……

Partners in Excellence

Why aren’t we challenging ourselves to figure out what it takes to get 5% or more? I guess I’m confused about why we accept what we get, rather than looking at what we have to do or what we might change to get what we want? Or how do we get 80% of our people achieving their goals, rather than 40%?

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Simplification…….

Partners in Excellence

We tend to make things more complex or more difficult than they need be. We get into vicious cycles of overwhelm and have the tendency to solve this by doing more. ” If we still have this as a dominating issue, are we getting the most out of our tech stacks, can we dramatically simplify them?

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Why startups need more than just press releases

Martech

Add earned media — a specific type of PR — to the mix, and things get even murkier. Today, PR generally refers to engaging with the media to amplify a specific event, announcement, or moment — i.e., good and exciting things for your company. The third category — earned media — is often the most confusing or misunderstood.

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Just One Thing…

Partners in Excellence

” In some sense, it’s true, it does pass, something else comes up, and the confusion continues. We can’t hunker down and do nothing–thinking things will pass and return to normal. As I train, I’ll move to other things, but managing my breathing has the highest impact on my performance.

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Finding The Time….

Partners in Excellence

It’s not strategy, process, tools, talent, structure, execution or all the other things that consume leaders. It’s finding the time to do these things. If you can’t do this, you haven’t thought through things deeply enough. And we confuse ourselves and our people on what’s really important.