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Do You Trust Your People To Solve Problems?

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Continuing my series on applying lean/agile manufacturing principles to selling, I was reminded by Charles Green and Dave Jackson about an important aspect of these principles that is never mentioned by those promoting lean/agile in our sales assembly lines. We have to trust them to do the work.

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Do You Genuinely Care About….”

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We see trust plummeting, we see challenges to social cohesion in both business and social environments. Sadly, we have adopted a mechanistic view of business–particularly in selling and management. We stop thinking of our customers as human beings, instead treating them as widgets we move along the sales assembly line.

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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. Sellers have, blindly, applied “manufacturing” technique to managing their selling process.

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Buying Is About People, Why Isn’t Selling?

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Ironically, while buying is getting more personal–more about people relating to people, selling seems to be, increasingly, less so. Relationships were fundamental to sales and selling in distant times. Buying is about people, great selling is too! We Don't Lose Because Of What We Sell!

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Do We Really Want Our Sales People To Be Value Creators?

Partners in Excellence

We are creating massive sales assembly lines optimizing the order taking process. We nurture them until they have done much of the work, then we engage them running them through our sales assembly line of qualifying, demoing, pitching, proposing, closing. At the same time, we see data that is alarming.

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On Layoffs….

Partners in Excellence

For years, I’ve been writing about the mechanization of selling. Customers have become depersonalized widgets that we move along our selling assembly lines. The people impacted are those that trusted management and do the work management directed. Our people have become replaceable widgets as well.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

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Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. But there are limitations to this.

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