excuse making
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This is What Would Happen if Bob Got Promoted to Sales Manager
- February 7, 2023
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
For those of you who are familiar with my series of articles about Bob – the worst salesperson ever – you can catch up by enjoying, laughing, and making fun of him here. 12 of the articles that show up on that page are about Bob!
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Is Excuse Making Actually the Biggest Obstacle to Increasing Sales?
- December 14, 2016
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I’ve talked a lot about excuse making and the powerful difference between using your index finger, which points outward, versus your thumb, which points inward. Today, Brandon Steiner wrote a great little article about taking responsibility.
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With Blown Call, Jim Joyce Succeeds at a Sales Core Competency
- June 3, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
If you’re a baseball fan, you’ve probably heard all about Jim Joyce’s horrendous call that cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game. It would have been just the 21st perfect game in Major League Baseball history. The worst part about this baseball tragedy was that the perfect game was a sure thing! There were two outs in the ninth inning when Galarraga induced a ground ball to first and everyone in the park and watching on television knew that would represent the final out of a perfect game. And that’s when Joyce became the focus of the game by calling the runner, Jason Donald, safe.
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Accountability – 2nd of the 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions
- November 12, 2009
- Posted by: Kurlan & Associates, Inc.
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
This is the 2nd in the series of the Top 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions.
#1 – ACCOUNTABILITY
In its simplest form, sales accountability consists of the following: