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Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World’s Sales Leaders (2nd edition)

This book distills interviews with more than 200 sales leaders at some of the world’s most successful companies into a set of practical, real-world insights across four major areas.

April 2016 | Thomas Baumgartner, Homayoun Hatami, Maria Valdivieso de Uster

Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World's Sales Leaders focuses on what’s on every leader’s agenda in today's turbulent business climate: growth. Through interviews with more than 200 sales leaders from the world’s most successful B2B and B2C companies, the authors have distilled the stories and insights into a set of practical, real-world insights across five major themes:

  • Finding growth before your competitors do
  • Selling the way customers want
  • Optimizing sales operations and technology
  • Finding sales leaders who continually challenge the status quo and thoughtfully manage performance
  • Leading sales growth to make change happen

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Foreword by Marc Benioff

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Table of contents

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