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On Innovation

Partners in Excellence

But if we are to improve, if we are to respond to the challenges we see in business, with our customers, or even those within our own company, we have to innovate. Some of our innovation is copying—we look at what our competitors are doing and we do the same thing. At best we can only be a close second.

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“Take Your Eyes Off The Ball”

Partners in Excellence

Book after book, blog posts all preach the concepts of disciplined focus, minimizing distraction, keeping our eyes on our goals, keeping our eyes on the ball. But sometimes this focus is limiting, we become prisoners of our own experiences. I’ve written about it in this blog.

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Memorable Leaders

Partners in Excellence

Our conversations are typically scheduled for an hour, they always last longer. Our conversations are one of the events I look most forward to, each month. Today, our conversation wandered into leadership. Eventually, we found ourselves talking about memorable managers/leaders in our own careers.

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Book Review – Emotional Equations – Chip Conley

The Pipeline

As I read it, I liked the idea of attaching equations to emotions to add meaning and to help manage the hold our emotions can sometimes have on us. As I read it, I liked the idea of attaching equations to emotions to add meaning and to help manage the hold our emotions can sometimes have on us. Despair = Suffering – Meaning.

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Don’t Become a Prisoner of Your Sales Experience

Pipeliner

These salespeople are offered minimal support with the excuse that they’re instead provided “sales autonomy”–but are such salespeople actually being imprisoned in their own experience? But sales leaders and salespeople alike underestimate the fact that such experience and confidence can seriously limit their sales performance.

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Don’t Become a Prisoner of Your Sales Experience

Pipeliner

These salespeople are offered minimal support with the excuse that they’re instead provided “sales autonomy”–but are such salespeople actually being imprisoned in their own experience? But sales leaders and salespeople alike underestimate the fact that such experience and confidence can seriously limit their sales performance.

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Making Sense Of Sensemaking

Partners in Excellence

If you have missed the previous posts, The links to all the others in this series, please go to: Sensemaking, The Big Issue Facing Both Our Customers And Us. I’ve been studying it for some, time, creating some experiments with clients. But again, how they respond to your questions in (2) will help refine that guess.