What Can Brown Do for You?

United Parcel Service had used this slogan for some time to show how responsive they can support your needs with effective and efficient processes. This is expressed regularly in commercials and their whiteboard website.  As this successful commercial shows, questions are a good way to get us thinking. UPS has long been successful at delivering [...]

Effective Playbooks Help You Manage Peaks and Valleys

Several years ago I first heard about the playbook in an NFL football context when Bill Walsh, the highly successful head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, spoke of it in an interview. The coach was asked why he had these large sheets of paper with him on the sidelines, which was rare as other [...]

"House" and Fearless Growth™

No, I haven’t been spending too much time in the medicine cabinet. Give me a minute and I’ll explain some interesting parallels between House and Fearless Growth and mental pictures of how some of the approaches – and I do mean some –can help our mindset and lead us to profitable revenue growth.

Most of you [...]

Firing up the Channels and Market Access!

Has your sales organization or channels lost a step?  This has been a common theme for the past year given the business challenges that most organizations have faced. So the sales team has come under a lot of pressure as they are the front lines of business generation (or lack thereof).

To help your sales organization [...]

Going for it in 2010

What are we to make of 2010? Most reports indicate that the New Year will improve, with it being reported to be stronger in B2B.  Purchases for the past 18+ months have been curtailed with only those that lead to short term revenue generation being prioritized.

If we agree that there is a lot of pent up [...]