Archive for August 2009

Individual and collective commitment to excellence matters most.

I must admit that I had to be dragged kicking & screaming by Laurie Pehar Borsh (a truly top tier professional in her field, you can learn more about her business by visiting http://www.ecmgusa.com/ or http://www.personalprproductions.com/) to actually write this blog. Since its inception, I’ve often wondered […]

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Toxic CEO Ted Provides a Lesson: How NOT to Run a Business

He said he really needed to speak with me about an urgent matter. He said he needed at least a couple hours and would buy me lunch if I helped him work through the problem. He said he had nobody else he could turn to and because […]

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About all this new sales enablement technology—The MOST knowledgeable AND experienced sales person is still MOST effective.

Shortly after reading the brilliant Gerhard Gschwandtner’s most recent blog post, http://sellingpower.typepad.com/gg/2009/07/is-sales-enablement-just-lipstick-on-a-knowledge-management-pig.html, I received a follow-up phone call from a sales person trying to rekindle my interest in purchasing sales enablement technology. His pitch was the now-familiar “clone your top sales performers through our capabilities.” To support […]

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