Partners in EXCELLENCE - Making a Difference
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 attending CEB’s Sales and Marketing Summit. If you ever have the opportunity, it’s a very worthwhile conference. Between the discussions over the past couple of days and come coincident phone and email discussions I’ve had while here, the concept of collaboration has been a huge underlying theme. Whether it’s how we work with our colleagues and team members more effectively, how we collaborate with customers–facilitating their own opportunity-solving process, or helping them to buy, the concepts of collaboration underlie virtually everything we do. Collaborations come in all shapes and sizes. They could be career long collaborations with colleagues in […]
Read MorePerhaps it’s because it’s early Fall (for us in the Northern Hemisphere), but a couple of things have happened this weekend that have caused me to stop and reflect–actually to pay attention. I have just rediscovered “Vinyl.” What I mean, is that I’ve rediscovered physical record albums and the pleasure of listening to music. Some of you might be thinking this will become a discussion about the vastly improved quality and sound. It’s what Neil Young is trying with Pono, or Jay Z with Tidal. With Vinyl, the quality of the music is better–but in truth, I struggle to detect the […]
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