Thinking on Modern Sales

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Writing on B2B sales, stakeholder engagement, sales leadership, and the disciplines that separate high-performing teams from the rest.

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The Problem With Managing Salespeople By Quota Alone

Quota attainment is a lagging indicator. It tells you what happened. It tells you nothing about why — or what will happen next. The best sales leaders manage the causes, not just the symptoms.

AI Won't Replace Salespeople. It Will Expose Single-Threaded Ones.

AI is not removing the need for salespeople. It is removing the excuses. As transactional work disappears, the value of a salesperson comes down to one thing: their ability to influence people.

Why Insight Is the New Product Knowledge

There was a time when product knowledge was a competitive advantage. Those days are over. Customers don't need another product expert. They need someone who understands their world.

One Champion Is Not a Strategy

The biggest mistake in B2B sales is confusing a champion with a strategy. One relationship is not enough. The best salespeople don't ask "Who is my champion?" — they ask "Who else needs to care?"

Listen. Ask. Probe. Summarise.

A simple but powerful structure for running high-quality sales conversations. Move from surface-level discussions to genuine insight — and position yourself as a trusted advisor, not just a seller.

The Word That Changes Everything in Sales

Every stakeholder you speak to is living a completely different version of the same problem. There's a word for this: Sonder. And in sales and leadership, this is where the edge is.

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The thinking across these articles connects back to one central methodology: multi-threading. Building relationships across the whole organisation — deliberately, systematically, and with your whole team. Explore how it works in practice.