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The Insights blog from Advantage Performance Group brings you timely and relevant business development topics to help your leaders lead, sellers sell, and business flourish. We also have free resources and webinar replays we love to share as well as Insights for your inbox.

Why I Decided to Rethink Hiring Smart People

Roger Martin explains a surprising reversal of thought

Sales Optimization Webinar #6 – Sales Process: Banish the Bureaucratic, Autocratic, and Irrelevant

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5 Strategic Sales Plan Must-Haves

If you want your next sales plan to succeed, stop now and ask these 5 questions

You Can’t Create a Sales Team Out of Thin Air

Why you need a talent architecture

How to Survive Sales Chaos

Turn chaos into meaningful business results with Sales Leadership Cadence

Sales survey benchmarks how you stack up

Participate in CSO Insights’ annual survey of 1500+ respondents to benchmark your 2012 performance against peer organizations.

10 Leadership Lessons from LinkedIn

LinkedIn gets two new members every second. Could you lead effectively at that pace of change? Here are tips that help CEO Jeff Weiner do it.

Sales Optimization Webinar #5 – 2013 Strategic Planning: 5 Must-Haves to Optimize the Sales Force

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This Fortune 25 Leader Put the Right Salespeople in the Right Roles

Ron Fox, VP and General Manager of Sales at Express Scripts, describes how he culled the best talent from merging sales forces to create a unified team

4 Steps to Close the Deal

Avoid objections and close more accurately – and faster.

Simplify Your Strategy

3 simple steps for clarifying strategies so your people will understand, remember, and execute them.

Are Your Leaders Ready For What’s Coming?

Attend one of our complimentary previews around the country this fall and equip your leaders for success.

SalesOptimization: The Framework

Maximize your sales strategy with elegant simplicity

5 Crucial Skills (That a Computer Doesn’t Have)

Consider the crucial things that computers can’t do well and make sure people on every team are great at them.

SalesOptimization Webinar #4: Right People: Strategically Develop Your Most Precious Resource – The Sales Force

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Why Your Sales House Needs an Architect and a Builder

Today, optimizing a sales force is like building a house. You need two levels of expertise.

The 11 Leadership Secrets You've Never Heard About

In this Forbes blog, August Turak explains that if you want to be a great leader, you need to be a great follower. That’s not a new idea. But we like his fresh take.

Volatility, Uncertainty, Fear and Loathing

SalesOptimization can replace these obstacles with with an environment of certainty.

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