Category Archives: Sales Leadership

A new thread of posts designed for the sales leader in you

Born Salespeople Don’t = Born Leaders

Sales=Leadership – My2Cents The topic ‘Sales=Leadership’ is absolutely fascinating to me, both as a student of Leadership & Management, and someone who had never really stepped fully into a sales role – until one year ago last month, when that … Continue reading

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Sales = leadership: Flyn Penoyer’s Opinion

Today’s commenter on our question, are sales and leadership really the same thing is Flyn Penoyer. Flyn is a trainer and coach and inside sales expert from the California Bay area. Flyn took a similar perspective to our other commentors … Continue reading

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Sales = leadership: What does Kenneth Lund Say?

Our first quoted participant in the Linked In Sales question is Kenneth Lund. Kenneth is a commercial account manager in Oslo Norway. I love this first response to our sales equals leadership question at Linked In. Why? I love it … Continue reading

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Sales = Leadership? Linked In Style

Well the question is now closed and we have a number of opinions to sort through. A number of people allowed me to quote them while some did not. So some will get credit and quoted while others will be … Continue reading

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Linked In Leadership: Next…Sujatha Das

Well after a well deserved break we are baack talking about how real leaders develop themselves. Do they use leadership training or more traditional leadership development techniques such as mentoring, education, coaching etc. Our next guest on this series is … Continue reading

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Leadership = Sales: Break!

Hey everyone We decided that in honor of the American memorial day holiday to take a few days down here at develop a leader dot com. We are back though and ready to talk about important issues. Today we will … Continue reading

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Leadership = Sales: Does it really?

Well For the past week our opinion of the similarities on leadership attributes and sales attributes have been discussed. There really are some remarkable similarities. We believe that a leader can take a lesson or two from a sales professional … Continue reading

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Leadership = Sales: Emotion

So we have written about relationships, we have written about reframing the problem and we have written about adding value. Are you starting to track with me that you can develop your ability in sales the same way we conduct … Continue reading

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Leadership = Sales: Relationships

We left of the last post with a bit of a cliff hanger. I left something out and promised to talk about it now.  What I left out was the importance of relationship. any good salesperson has an almost natural … Continue reading

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Sales = Leadership: Reframe the Problem

Change the context Two days ago we started a new thread on sales leadership and today we continue on that theme. You are in the client’s office and its not going well. You have tried everything you know. You have … Continue reading

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