Dave Kahle Wisdom

How well does your organization learn?

What may be the single most important predictor of an organization’s long-term business development and survival is that organization’s ability to learn. In a world that is changing more rapidly today than at any previous time in human history, the...

Are Your Relationships a Help or a Hindrance?

Positive customer relationships are the basis of much B2B business, right?  Positive business relationships ensure us an audience with the customer, make every step of the selling process go easier, and even provide us with a competitive edge.  It’s not unusual...

Managing Your Attitudes

We’ve all heard about the importance of our attitudes. Usually the directive goes like this; “XXXXXXXXXX, you need to improve your attitude!” Fortunately, there is a lot more to attitudes than just the oft-spoken refrain to improve ours.  Successful...

Learning about the Competition

As salespeople, we love to complain about the competition.  Unfortunately, complaining doesn’t do us any good.  A better approach is to create a system to learn about the competition.  Knowledge of the competition — not only their strengths and weaknesses...

Is the System the Solution? Intro to Business Systems

At its most fundamental level, business is always and only about three things:  Money, people and systems. There is a huge body of content revolving around money in business. When it comes to people, as an element in business, there is an equally impressive body of...

Is it the low price, or the high risk?

“Low price, low price, low price.”  It’s the mantra that sales people in every industry segment are hearing more these days than ever before.  But, is low price the motivating factor in a customer’s decision to buy? Here’s a secret that...
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