Recently, the Australian Prime Minster, Malcolm Turnbull urged and encouraged Australians to be more creative, develop new opportunities and drive innovation to grow our economy and secure a better economic…
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What does being ‘Otherish’ mean? Adam Grant, in his bestselling book Give and Take, talks about the concept of "otherish" being the opposite of selfish and different from selflessness. “Otherish”…
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Sales Trend 2 of Barrett 12 Sales Trends for 2016 is “Beware Competitor Zero”. Competition comes in all shapes and sizes today; direct, indirect, and disruptive; however, there is another…
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We all know that creating a better sales team, better sales culture, better sales leadership and better sales strategy that delivers better sales results does not happen by attending the…
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You could be forgiven for starting off 2016 in a rather pessimistic manner given all the ‘doom and gloom’ being spread about economic growth issues, the decline of share markets…
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Barrett’s Sales Trend 10 for 2015 is ‘Oops! I’m in sales’. The general stereotypical view of selling and salespeople has remained relatively stable over the past 50 or so years,…
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Barrett’s Sales Trend 9 for 2015 is ‘Back to the village’. As globalisation became more and more prominent, Australian consumers in turn, became excited about being able to purchase items…
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Sales Trend 8 of Barrett’s 12 Sales Trends for 2015 is about “neuroselling”. Recently, there has been a shift from economic models to emotion-based or psychological models of selling. The…
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Jim Collins (author of “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't”) stimulates a thought that many sales managers should be asking themselves right now: “What makes…
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Many so called “experts” claim that there are two types of salespeople – Hunters and Farmers. Salespeople, so these experts claim, are either one or the other. Consequently they fit…
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