HBR's 10 Must Reads on Sales (with bonus interview of Andris Zoltners) (HBR's 10 Must Reads) Philip Kotler
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. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review; articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand how to create the conditions for sales success.
This book will inspire you to:
- Understand your customer's buying center
- Integrate your sales and marketing operations
- Assess your business cycle and its impact on your sales force
- Transition away from solution sales
- Leverage the power of micromarkets
- Introduce tiebreaker selling and consensus selling
- Motivate your sales force properly
This collection of articles includes: Major Sales: Who Really Does the Buying, by Thomas V. Bonoma; Ending the War Between Sales and Marketing, by Philip Kotler, Neil Rackham, and Suj Krishnaswamy; Match Your Sales Force Structure to Your Business Life Cycle, by Andris A. Zoltners, Prabhakant Sinha, and Sally E. Lorimer; The End of Solution Sales, by Brent Adamson, Matthew Dixon, and Nicholas Toman; Selling into Micromarkets, by Manish Goyal, Maryanne Q. Hancock, and Homayoun Hatami; Dismantling the Sales Machine, by Brent Adamson, Matthew Dixon, and Nicholas Toman; Tiebreaker Selling, by James C. Anderson, James A. Narus, and Marc Wouters; Making the Consensus Sale, by Karl Schmidt, Brent Adamson, and Anna Bird; The Right Way to Use Compensation, by Mark Roberge; How to Really Motivate Salespeople, by Doug J. Chung; and Getting Beyond 'Show Me the Money,' an interview with Andris Zoltners by Daniel McGinn.