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Sales Leadership: Climbing Mount Everest

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Leadership: Climbing Mount Everest. Climbing Mount Everest takes skills, plans, a strong team and luck. While I was in Hong Kong leading a 2 day sales leadership workshop, I picked up a Chinese newspaper and in the business section there was a large article on this topic. Acumen Management Group Ltd.

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Jonathan Farrington's Blog ? Truly Successful People Continually.

Jonathan Farrington

I felt a little like Sir Edmund Hilary when he was about to become the first man to conquer Mount Everest: Lots of people could describe the mountain right up to a level below the summit, but none of them were able to offer any advice about succeeding on that final stage. First, keep the key management functions in mind.

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Product Led Growth: Turning Salespeople into Sherpas

Sales Hacker

It’s even harder to imagine they have a gong-banging, beer-chugging sales floor, populated by hundreds of SDRs and AEs. PLG companies do have a sales team, but PLG salespeople act very differently from your average sales person. The salesperson in a PLG company is like a sherpa on Everest. Actions or events.