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To lead a sales team, you must manage the stories they tell and hear
Filed in Business storytelling, Corporate Storytelling, Leadership Posts, Selling
You cannot succeed in sales leadership without managing and leveraging your team’s stories. Read how this practice helped a sales leader in a global organisation.
Read MoreCan you keep your cool in a tough negotiation?
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Communication, Corporate Storytelling
There is no chance of agreement when opposing sides lose their cool. Here’s a story you can enjoy as an anecdote or retell it to make a similar point.
Read MoreMagicians, marines, and medics: Understanding sales roles
We’ve been told that there are two types of salespeople, hunters and farmers, but there are three. In this post, Mike Adams will introduce them to you.
Read MoreSeven ways to win tenders by thinking like a military commander
Like a General in war, you normally don’t have the full picture in a sales engagement. Nonetheless, it’s the salesperson’s responsibility to know what is going on.
Read MoreAll storytelling is about problem-solving
In this blog post, Mike Adams explains how storytelling is about problem-solving and is also our primary mental tool for solving problems.
Read MoreThe ponytail and why your stories must be true
Have you heard the story about how NASA spent millions of dollars developing a pen that would work in zero gravity? There’s a problem with this story…
Read MoreStories are the brain’s natural language
Stories are so powerful because that is how our brains are structured—our brains work by identifying and predicting sequences of related events.
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