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Foreword | p. ix |
Metrics, Metrics Everywhere | |
CRM, Reporting, and a False Sense of Control | p. 3 |
The War Room | p. 3 |
Got Control? | p. 5 |
The Source of the Problem | p. 6 |
How Sales Has Trailed Its Peers | p. 8 |
The Sales Management Code ... Cracked! | |
chapter 2 What Can We Really Manage? | p. 13 |
Great Sellers Evolve into Great Managers ... Maybe? | p. 13 |
It's the Sales Manager, Stupid | p. 15 |
Can You Manage a Number? | p. 18 |
Our Journey Begins | p. 19 |
The Question | p. 21 |
Activities, Results, and the Stuff In-Between | p. 24 |
The Code Begins to Crack | p. 30 |
Business Resultsùthe Company's Health | p. 37 |
Back to the War Room | p. 37 |
Doing Well | p. 38 |
The Problem with "Managing by Results" | p. 56 |
Sales Objectivesùthe Sales Force's Mandates | p. 61 |
Smile... For a While | p. 61 |
Behold, the Sales Objective | p. 64 |
Stuff for Sales Management to Worry About | p. 69 |
The Sales Force as Ground Cover | p. 72 |
The "Capable" Sales Force | p. 77 |
Acquire, Retain, Grow, Repeat | p. 82 |
Sell Something... but Not Just Anything | p. 86 |
The Sales Force: Revenue Machine or Strategic Weapon? | p. 90 |
Sales Activitiesùthe Drivers of Sales Performance | p. 97 |
The Missing Metrics on the Wall | p. 97 |
Sales Processes, You Say? | p. 99 |
The Building Blocks of Control | p. 103 |
Fact: Better Processes = Better Sales Performance | p. 139 |
Using the Code to Manage Your Sales Force | |
Building the Foundation for Control | p. 149 |
The Building Blocks | p. 149 |
Which Sales Process is Best for Our Company? | p. 151 |
Rightsizing Your Sales Process | p. 176 |
Off the Shelf or Off the Mark? | p. 181 |
Does That Also Come in Gray? | p. 183 |
Selecting and Collecting Your Metrics | p. 187 |
If Sales Management Were a Snap | p. 187 |
Choosing Activity, Objective, and Result Metrics | p. 189 |
Bringing Back the Smiles | p. 192 |
The Shape of Things to Come | p. 195 |
Learning to Let Go | p. 197 |
Speaking of Reports... | p. 199 |
Managing with Processes and Numbers | p. 207 |
Now It's Time to Manage | p. 207 |
Managing Call Managers | p. 209 |
Managing Opportunity Managers | p. 213 |
Managing Account Managers | p. 216 |
Managing Territory Managers | p. 220 |
And Sales Force Enablement | p. 223 |
Which Process for Which Objective? | p. 225 |
The Treasure Map | p. 231 |
An Advanced Degree: Selecting A-O-Rs for the Individual Seller | p. 232 |
Mission Accomplished | p. 239 |
In Reflection | p. 239 |
The Ultimate Status Check | p. 240 |
And Finally... | p. 243 |
Appendix: Troubleshooting Guide | p. 245 |
Index | p. 247 |
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