A Great Sales Pitch Hinges on the Right Story
May 21, 2024 · When you’re working in sales, you need to master the art of persuasion and that involves being able to tell a compelling story that explains why your product or service will …
A New Way to Compensate Sales Teams - Harvard Business Review
Mar 15, 2024 · Managing sales teams has never been easy. It involves dealing with independent personalities, frequent turnover, training challenges, and disappointing pipelines. New layers …
How CEOs Make or Break Sales - Harvard Business Review
Mar 5, 2025 · A conversation with INSEAD professor Christoph Senn on what to do if your CEO is either overly involved—or not involved enough—in deals.
5 Skills Every Salesperson Needs to Succeed
Sep 19, 2022 · A sales leader at an asset management firm reflected: “Our inside salespeople are doing a better job than our field salespeople. And they make one third as much.” In the …
How Sales Teams Can Use Gen AI to Discover What Clients Need
Feb 13, 2025 · In the face of decreasing access to buyers, sales organizations often increase the volume of their sales outreach, hoping that more times at bat will result in more hits. While this …
5 Gen AI Myths Holding Sales and Marketing Teams Back
Feb 21, 2025 · New and disruptive technologies often generate both excitement and anxiety, and generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) is no exception. In marketing and sales, the buzz …
What Salespeople Need from Leaders—at Each Stage of Their …
Apr 24, 2025 · Leading a high-performing sales team requires a personalized talent management approach. Salespeople’s needs evolve throughout their careers, and while sales managers …
4 Steps That Can Optimize Your Sales Process - Harvard Business …
Sep 24, 2024 · Sales is an art where outcomes matter, so most advice about performing well in this role focuses on the desired outcome: closing the sale. But a close is the result of actions …
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Sales (with bonus interview of Andris …
Sales isn't about pushing products or being efficient; it's about building the right systems to manage and empower your salespeople. If you read nothing else on sales, read these 10 articles.
Sales - HBR
6 days ago · Sales and marketing Digital Article Saloni Firasta-Vastani The value you assign sets expectations, shapes behavior, and, once established, is difficult to reverse.