Time is Right for M&A Activity

Last week in the FT John Authers wrote a compelling piece on the M&A market worth summarizing for all CEOs and those involved in acquisitions. These are some of the main points with my own observations: Source Thomson Reuters  M&A activity in the US last year...

How To Manage Inbound Sales Leads

Last month there was a very interesting blog post entitled – Help! My Sales Team Thinks Our Inbound Leads Suck. The post highlighted various tactics to deploy to change the sales team’s attitude to embrace these beautiful things called inbound leads....

Serving First Selling Second

In his latest book To Sell Is Human; Daniel Pink explores the concept of serving as a more effective mindset and approach for sales professionals to move prospects. He believes we are all selling in some way today. If you are trying to move others, you are selling....

Sport & Business a Mental Game

Whether you played sport at school, college or perhaps professionally you understand only too well how your mental approach often dictated success. I ran competitively from 16 to 27. An athlete with a little talent I achieved modest success at 800m being ranked in the...