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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. All businesses face opportunity costs. Strategy and planning process.

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8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value

Harvard Business Review

The challenge for executives is, of course, to manage their conflicting goals, or so-called trade-offs. The most prevalent tension to resolve is between market share (or sales revenue) and margin. First: Market share is a dangerous key performance indicator (KPI). But the confusion runs deeper than that.

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