What is Value-based selling?

value-based selling the shop window

You’ll probably have a very accurate idea about what your business costs you. The bricks and mortar (or your desk, laptop, printer and supply of chocolate Hob Nobs) Your people – either on your payroll or as associates or suppliers. Your manufacturing, purchasing or tech development costs. What you spend on marketing your business and…

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Tech sales as the Growth Engine

sales growth

Sales and revenue are the engine of growth. The product roadmap is the destination. What happens when tech businesses apply more sophistication to the destination than to the engine that funds it? Discovery: the comfortable lie in tech sales Tech sales’ favourite illusion: “We’ve done Discovery.” Most tech sales teams will tell you they’re good…

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The fragility of trust in hybrid teams — and the promises leaders break

Trust written in scrabble letters

Leading and building trust in a hybrid team is a bit like trying to toast marshmallows over a candle while someone keeps opening a window. You’re expected to conjure warmth and cohesion while nobody’s actually huddled round the flames — they’re scattered in kitchens and spare rooms, squinting at their own screens, trying to picture…

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A Leadership Love Story (with a Warning Label)

Two hands forming a heart shape over a sunset showing leadership love story

Leadership is often described as a love story. But let’s be clear: it’s not the glossy kind with soft lighting and perfect endings. It’s more like a Quentin Blake illustration — a bit lopsided, slightly chaotic, and always showing up in ink smudges rather than neat lines. And here’s the rub: some leaders only ever…

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