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4 Ways to Build a Productive Sales Culture

Harvard Business Review

In the case of a sales organization, money, time, and effort allocated to accounts A and B are resources not available for accounts C, D, and so on. A confusion between efficiency and optimization plagues many sales efforts. The most under-utilized lever for improving sales is the performance review.

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8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value

Harvard Business Review

They are listed below, each with an example: Profit maximization (long-term): A bank offers accounts to students at a special interest rate to attract a segment of customers whose incomes will later increase. First: Market share is a dangerous key performance indicator (KPI). But the confusion runs deeper than that.

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