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B2B Book Club Selection (August 2022)

Account Manager Tips

The prevailing thought is if you have graduated to sales leadership, you must already know what you're doing, otherwise you wouldn't have been promoted into the role. The prevailing thought is if you have graduated to sales leadership, you must already know what you’re doing, otherwise you wouldn’t have been promoted into the role.

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Being a servant leader – Servant Leadership

MDI Training

Being a servant leader “Servant Leadership” is a concept by Robert Greenleaf that describes the manager as a servant to their employees. A number of well-known authors and CEOs of companies such as Starbucks, Nordstrom and SAS followed him in designing and practicing servant leadership. ” Trick or mission?

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Agile Leadership

CMOE

For a multitude of reasons, more than half of the companies that were on the Fortune 500 list in the year 2000 no longer exist today. The post Agile Leadership appeared first on CMOE. The capacity to react quickly when a window of opportunity opens and mitigate rapidly approaching storms is vital to long-term success.

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How to Create a Sales Accountability Culture

Sales Gravy

Kristie: How I Developed My Passion for Creating a Sales Accountability Culture I actually started in SaaS sales leadership back in 2000. Jeb: Too Much Money, Not Enough Leadership In some cases, there’s zero leadership, too much money, and people run wild. I actually started in SaaS sales leadership back in 2000.

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Professional services marketing/BD case studies – Moore Kingston Smith, Mazars, Capsticks, Fladgate, Travers Smith, Mills & Reeve and brand awards

Red Star Kim

There are case studies of thought leadership, branding, pricing and strategy. Mazars C-suite barometer 2023 – Mazars – United Kingdom Although not specific to professional services, there was a helpful article on unlocking thought leadership through great interviews in June – with insights from former FT and Times writers.

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Research update on the most in-demand soft skills

Red Star Kim

Following my past research (some of which was published in my 2020 book Essential soft skills for lawyers (kimtasso.com) ) I keep an eye out for the latest information relating to the soft skills (particularly leadership skills) most in demand and how these relate to the professional services sector.

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The First-Mover Advantage, Explained

Hubspot Sales

Brand leadership and loyalty are usually awarded to first movers, but they must continue to evolve to avoid being surpassed by competitors. Their 2000 acquisition of Kashi allowed Kellogg’s to evolve with the natural and organic food boom -- key to maintaining their popularity as a brand.