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The Most Common Sales Fallacies
For many years, I have struggled and beaten off my competition through hard work and failures. I have read many books and many articles on how to be the best Salesman or the Best Marketer and have tried implementing all the advice. I am sick to death of all of these How-To guides and the […]
The Crisis in Corporate Strategy (Part 2): How to Make a Difference
Note from the Editor: Charles Fiaccabrino is a seasoned executive with 50+ years of sales management experience. Charles began his career at Hoffmann La Roche on April 1st, 1969 as the first diagnostics sales representative in the newly formed Diagnostics Division and helped grow the organization into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. During his career at […]
The Crisis in Corporate Strategy (Part 1)
Note from the Editor: Charles Fiaccabrino is a seasoned executive with 50+ years of sales management experience. Charles began his career at Hoffmann La Roche on April 1st, 1969 as the first diagnostics sales representative in the newly formed Diagnostics Division and helped grow the organization into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. During his career at […]
Is Your Turnover Abysmal?
In most sales organizations, there are 2 crippling truths—1) 80-90% of sales are generated by only 20% of the sales team and 2) turnover is abysmal. This brings us to an important question. Why is that only 20% of the sales team generate such a disproportionate amount of the sales? What if you were to […]
Supervisors Do Things Right, Leaders Do the Right Things
Note from the Editor: Charles Fiaccabrino is a seasoned executive with 50+ years of sales management experience. Charles began his career at Hoffmann La Roche on April 1st, 1969 as the first diagnostics sales representative in the newly formed Diagnostics Division and helped grow the organization into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. During his career at […]
The Peter Principle in Reverse
Note from the Editor: Charles Fiaccabrino is a seasoned executive with 50+ years of sales management experience. Charles began his career at Hoffmann La Roche on April 1st, 1969 as the first diagnostics sales representative in the newly formed Diagnostics Division and helped grow the organization into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. During his career at […]
Sales Strategy Implementation: Why Culture Matters
Note from the Editor: Charles Fiaccabrino is a seasoned executive with 50+ years of sales management experience. Charles began his career at Hoffmann La Roche on April 1st, 1969 as the first diagnostics sales representative in the newly formed Diagnostics Division and helped grow the organization into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. During his career at […]
Implementation: Turning Sales Theory into a Reality
Scores of manuscripts, books, periodicals, and assorted publications have been written about Sales and Sales Management–most of which are brilliantly conceived and well intentioned. The reader understands the basis of the information either theoretically, conceptually, and/or, as a practical matter, “gets” its significance. But, something might be missing and that something is: HOW do I do […]
The Fiaccabrino Selection Process, a Flevy Exclusive Framework on Selecting the Best of the Best
Flevy recently collaborated with Charles Fiaccabrino to develop an exclusive business framework, the Fiaccabrino Selection Process. In most sales organizations, your top 20% sales performers generate 80% of the revenues. The question is, why are the other 80% hired? What would happen if sales managers hired sales people who were more like the top 20% […]
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