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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.
I’m an unabashed fan of Shane Parrish and the Farnam Street Blog. I study everything they publish, listen to every podcast, read every article and book they reference. It is the single smartest site I have ever found, I encourage everyone to visit and learn on a regular basis. So it was interesting reading a post, “How Performance Reviews Can Kill Your Culture” I found myself both agreeing with, but strongly disagreeing with the discussion in the article. First, most every organization does a terrible job with the performance review process. We know the litany of complaints, bad implementations, poor […]
Read MoreLong time followers will know that I’m obsessed with the concept of micro-improvements. The concept of getting 1% better each day, leads to huge gains over the year. I’ve reviewed my process on micro improvements in past posts. I sit down at the end of each day and assess myself against roughly 20 questions, for example, “Did I express gratitude to people, Did I do something to create value for my clients.” The process has been very helpful, both in getting me to be more reflective of what I do/accomplish and in making me more purposeful. But I lapse every […]
Read MoreAccount planning is important, it’s fundamental to growing our value and positioning with our key customers. It helps us align resources and activities with the customers that represent the most potential and opportunity. We are approaching the end of the year, everyone is involved in “account planning.” It’s odd, but virtually every organization does the same thing. It seems that account planning is an annual or semi-annual exercise. We dust off last year’s PowerPoint. We update the data in the account plan, showing the customer financial and business performance, discussing their industry positioning and performance, discussing their strategies and priorities. […]
Read MoreSadly, every day I see more sales people committed to stupidity. It’s not making mistakes, misunderstanding situations, even some errors in judgement. As bad as those may be, it’s the commitment to being stupid that astounds me. Stupidity is a choice, and I’m stunned by the number of people that are committed to stupidity. Daily, I get invitations in LinkedIn, “Dave, I’ve looked at your profile….” Yet they never have looked at my profile. Jack Malcolm shared an invitation he received, “Jack, I see in your profile you run and accounting firm. We work with firms like yours….” There is […]
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