Text Book

What is guiding your sales team to execute with precision – – effectively, efficiently & predictably?

Sales Process Management textbook

The Chief Sales Leader™ Text Book will provide a comprehensive set of principles on how to build, manage, improve, and merge the three (3) strategic and twelve (12) operating sales processes that are required for a sales team to execute with precision – – effectively, efficiently, and predictably, including:

Framework – with processes, sub-processes, activities, and tasks
Step-by-Step Instructions for building, improving, and merging sales teams
Assessments – for pinpointing problems within and between processes
Tools – to speed understanding and development of processes
Case Studies – in multiple industries and stages of the business life-cycle
Links – to government, industry and company information

The Chief Sales Leader™ Textbook will show people “how to” build, manage, improve, restructure, and merge sales processes and teams

The Challenge

To build sustainable revenue growth year-after-year, Chief Sales Leaders™ need to proactively manage twelve operating sales processes with precision – – effectively, efficiently, and predictably.

Unfortunately, most Chief Sales Leaders™ are not trained in the twelve operating sales processes and have little to no understanding of how to manage the cause-and-effect relationships within and between them.

The Complicating Factors

To make matters worse, there is no single source that Chief Sales Leaders™ can turn to for guidance on all twelve operating sales processes.

This requires them to serve as “general contractors” sifting through a blizzard of academic theories, books by consultants, self-proclaimed experts, and thousands of blogs, articles, and videos that claim to solve their revenue growth problems.

The situation is further complicated by a blizzard of well-intended “expert advice” from accountants, lawyers, engineers, technical experts, investors, and owners about “what to do” to grow revenue.

Our Quest

Unfortunately, all of this well-intended advice, information, and tools more often than not results in wasted time, money, morale, and careers.

So we set out on a journey to create a single resource that Chief Sales Leaders™ can turn to for insight and “how to instructions” on how to bring precision – – effectiveness, efficiency, and predictability – – to sales processes, sales teams, and sales execution.

The result of our quest will be a single source that people can turn to for guidance on how to bring precision to sales execution. We believe that it will also bring respect to the sales profession through a more scientific approach to sales management.

Section I – The Chief Sales Leader Framework™

The Genesis of The Chief Sales Leader Framework™

After nearly 30-years of searching for a management solution for building sustainable revenue growth year-after-year I found a framework in an unlikely place – – a college textbook that had set on my bookshelf for 30-years – – called The Principles of Strategic Management.

The basic concept is that for a company, and its leaders, to achieve sustainable success year-after-year they need to proactively manage three strategic processes and twelve operating processes (see them in the image below).

If the Principles of Strategic Management are the foundation for building company success shouldn’t Chief Sales Leaders™, and the entire sales profession, use them to achieve sustainable revenue growth year-after-year?