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This is Dave Brock’s Blog.

It offers my views on a variety of business, sales, marketing, and leadership topic. My goal is to make a difference for you, the reader, in both your professional and personal lives.

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Imitation May Be The Sincerest Form Of Flattery, But It Sucks As A Business Strategy

By David Brock | March 25, 2021

Sometimes when we lift our heads up and look outside our day to day work, our roles, and our companies, we look at others. We may look at our competitors and what they do. We may look at high performing companies, and what they do. We may look at individuals and how they work. We see others do things that are very successful and aspire to achieve the same success they do. We are tempted to copy or emulate what they do, thinking, “If they are that successful, if we did the same things, we will be successful, as well.” […]

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When The Formulas Don’t Work

By David Brock | March 24, 2021

We spend a lot of time trying to figure out what works. We look for methods, processes, programs, tools, systems, training that help us achieve our objectives. Sometimes they work, at least for a while. Sometimes they don’t work. Sometimes, too often, we don’t give them the opportunity to work–abandoning them to chase some other miracle cure. It doesn’t take a lot of brilliance or insight when something is working. You just keep doing it–perhaps refining it to continue to improve. The problem is when the formulas don’t work. We don’t take the time to understand what’s happening. We don’t […]

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Pleeaaasse….. Can I Be Selected To Give You My Money…..

By David Brock | March 24, 2021

A close friend–a consultant who is one of the best sales experts I’ve met forwarded me a prospecting letter he received. There is nothing good about the approach. In fact, it reeks of arrogance and condescension. Even worse, it purports to challenge my friend in an area in which he is a recognized expert. Here’s the letter, names/links adapted…. Hi Don, Hey Don, [Carl] here. [Ben] “green-lighted” me to offer you a free 1-on-1 analysis of your current sales development pipeline. If that interests you, let’s talk. Apply to book a call with me here. Just to give you an […]

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Does The Right Hand Know What The Left Hand Is Doing?

By David Brock | March 23, 2021

In our organizational silos, we tend to build our plans in isolation from those in other silos within our organization. While we may be looking at, on a silo basis, building very aggressive goals, collectively, they may be well designed to have us completely miss our goals and under perform. One of the biggest problem areas I see is in linking demand gen/prospecting with overall business results. Let me give an example to illustrate. Recently, I worked with an organization that realized the need to significantly expand their lead gen and prospecting. They set very aggressive goals–more than double what […]

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Person Or Personality?

By David Brock | March 22, 2021

One of my favorite writers is John McPhee. Recently, I was rereading a short story, A Philosopher In The Kitchen. It’s outstanding, both as a masterpiece in writing and in the ideas he conveys. While it’s about a chef, it provokes thinking about the highest levels of practice in any profession. One of the lines that struck me, “He would like to be known for what he does, but in this time, in this country, his position is awkward, for he prefers being a person to becoming a personality…” Today, we seem to live in a world where people aspire […]

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Hanging Out With People Different From Me

By David Brock | March 20, 2021

It’s human nature to hang out people like us. Perhaps the people we are grow up with, perhaps those we went to school with. We tend to gravitate to people like us. Maybe it’s the shared experiences and backgrounds. Maybe it’s the comfort factor, the camaraderie. It shapes every part of our lives. Where we live, our friendships, where we work. We tend to hire people who look like us, who have similar backgrounds and experiences. We see things similarly, we have similar instincts and reactions. We learn, but we focus on learning the same things. We change, but we […]

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