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Stop Checking Email in Bed and Take Back Your Early Morning and Your Calendar

I had a great, energizing, productive and life-giving week, and hope you did, too. Thursday I led a full-day session covering the major themes from New Sales. Simplified. for a client’s BD team, and then spent Friday in 1:1 coaching sessions with many who attended on Thursday. The individual sessions were as unique as I’d ever experienced […]

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The Joy of Coaching Confident Top Performers Who are Always Looking to Improve

I love almost every aspect of what I do in my business. But beyond all, my absolute favorite thing is getting to work with top-producing sales stars. Don’t get me wrong; they’re not always easy. Many are demanding, high-maintenance and supremely confident in their approach. And all of them are incredibly selfish with their time.

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Senior Executives are Hurting Sales by Piling Too Much Crap on the Sales Manager

When speaking to organizations or coaching sales teams, I am quick to point out how little time most salespeople spend truly pursuing new business. In fact, depending on what I observe at a particular client, it’s not uncommon for me to boldly state that the simple reason they are not developing enough new business is

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Words of Wisdom from Jerry Seinfeld on Life, Love, Passion and Greatness

Earlier this week Mike Greenberg excitedly tweeted that his idol, Jerry Seinfeld, would be an in-studio guest on Mike and Mike in the Morning. I love both Greeny and Seinfeld, and as native New Yorker who’s a huge sports fan, this was about as it good as it gets for sports-talk show during Super Bowl

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New Sales. Simplified. Goes Back to College

My oldest son is a junior in high school. We’ve been ramping up our college research, visiting campuses (free copy of my book to the first three people who contact me and correctly identify the university pictured above), and on Saturday morning he took the ACT for the first time. It brought to mind this great post Dr. Dawn

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Year-End Questions for Sales Professionals as the Sun Sets on 2013

I spent the past week reflecting back on 2013 and reviewing plans for the year ahead. Yesterday, some dear friends provided a tour of their favorite spots in the Florida Keys. While the Lobster Rueben sandwich, beaches and chocolate dipped frozen Key Lime Pie on a stick were beyond fantastic, the sunset pictured above (taken

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Executives, Managers and Salespeople Must be More Selfish to Drive Improved Results

I wrote recently asking executives, managers and salespeople if they were moving the needle on high payoff activities or just simply busy. The piece got a lot of play and also caught the attention of the editors at Open View Labs who wanted to further explore the topic of being “Selfishly Productive.” And because this

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Are You Moving the Needle on High Payoff Activity or Drowning in Details & Admin?

As I work with senior executives, sales leaders and salespeople, I’ve observed a trait that is common among top-performers in all three roles: The very best executives, managers and individual contributors are Selfishly Productive. I started incorporating the description Selfishly Productive into team sessions I was leading a few months back and noticed what an impact that phrase had

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