21 Dec, 2018 Generation Alpha - our future CEOs By Passle As the father of a Generation Alpha little darling, it's true that kids (8 and below) increasingly influence many of our household...
19 Dec, 2018 Question: What shall I write about? Answer: What you want to be known for. Focus on your niche! By James Barclay I read with disappointment that UK tech firm Blippar has collapsed. It is always a shame to see great talent and ideas not pulling off...
18 Dec, 2018 Marketing and Sales Must Come Together to Build the Right Content for their Clients By Connor Kinnear The article below quotes a Salesforce stat saying that 85% of marketing content is never used. This is of no surprise to me as we see...
17 Dec, 2018 Small Change; Big Difference. The impact of just a little nudge... By James Barclay It has been my experience that salespeople will often acknowledge the role luck plays in a successful close (at least in private). ...
13 Dec, 2018 Emotion in a digital age - a must in today's professional services By Passle Having read a great article titled "Want to master the art of negotiation? You need emotional intelligence" by Helen Brand (CEO of ACCA)...
12 Dec, 2018 90% (!) of buyers said that they would be open to engaging with salespeople earlier in their buying process By Passle Another great piece in the CSO Insights Buyer Preference Survey shows that buyers want to be engaged by salespeople but 70% of buyers...
10 Dec, 2018 53% of Customer Loyalty is from The Sales Experience By Passle Another way to look at the diagram below is that 'Company and Brand Impact' only contributes 19% to customer loyalty. Here are the...
10 Dec, 2018 Your voice is unique & valuable - Insights from Michelle Obama By Sarah Strachan Michelle Obama spoke openly last week about how she still to this day feels impostor syndrome. If one of the most powerful and...
10 Dec, 2018 Why being ‘present’ online is now a strategic imperative for professional services By Eugene McCormick My colleague James Barclay wrote a post earlier this year about Social Maturity, citing the graph pulled together by the team at Tribal...
05 Dec, 2018 Digital transformation - Enable and empower those that want to lead By James Barclay Unfortunately and unsurprisingly you cannot decide at HQ after a week of brainstorming and some group sessions to do 'Digital...
04 Dec, 2018 The Physics behind Distributed Leadership By Freddy Dobinson Imagine you are the only point of contact for every last one of your firm's clients. Within a complex or multinational organisation, you...
03 Dec, 2018 “Attitudes drive Behaviour and Behaviour delivers Results” By Passle Brian Curran explains about customer behaviour very well here. But I want to think about this behaviour in the context of evolving ABM...
03 Dec, 2018 Make the change - 5 steps to reaching the people that matter By Samuel Page I recently read The Willpower Instinct by Dr Kelly McGonigal. The book specifically deals with how to make a change in your personal life...
30 Nov, 2018 "Leadership as a process" is at the core of many world-leading organisations By Tom Elgar The recent, often VC-driven "cult of the CEO" suggests that for a company to succeed, the leader must define a clear direction for their...
29 Nov, 2018 B2B Sales & Marketing post-GDPR - New Regulation By Passle GDPR was not created to ban cold calling or cold emailing; its purpose is to protect individuals from the EU's data. There is, however, a...
28 Nov, 2018 #1 ranked management thinker in the world - Rethinking Efficiency - Prof. Roger Martin By Passle "Efficiency is taught as an unalloyed goal in the business world." Professor Roger R. Martin, writer, strategy advisor & currently #1...