The Challenger Sale :How To Take Control of the Customer Conversation
The Challenger Sale :How To Take Control of the Customer Conversation
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7 February, 2013
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What's the secret to sales success? If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships - and you'd be wrong. The best salespeople don't just build relationships with customers. They challenge them.
The need to understand what top-performing reps are doing that their average performing colleagues are not is what drove Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, and their colleagues at Corporate Executive Board, to investigate the skills, behaviours, knowledge, and attitudes that matter most for high performance. And what they discovered may be the biggest shock to conventional sales wisdom in decades.
Based on an exhaustive study of thousands of sales reps across multiple industries and geographies, The Challenger Sale argues that classic relationship building is a losing approach, especially when it comes to selling complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions. The authors' study found that every sales rep in the world falls into one of five distinct profiles, and while all of these types of reps can deliver average sales performance, only one - the Challenger - delivers consistently high performance.
‘Read it, think about it, implement it. You, and your organization, will be glad you did’
Professor Neil Rackham, author of SPIN Selling
‘The Challenger Sale breaks the winning elements of this powerful approach into a set of teachable skills that can take even a top sales team to a new level of results delivery’
Dan James, former chief sales officer, DuPont
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780670922857 |
| ISBN10 | 0670922854 |
| Number Of Pages | 240 |
| Item Weight | 297 g |
| Product Dimensions | 152 x 234 x 18 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Read it, think about it, implement it. You, and your organization, will be glad you did * Professor Neil Rackham, author of SPIN Selling *
"The Challenger Sale breaks the winning elements of this powerful approach into a set of teachable skills that can take even a top sales team to a new level of results delivery * Dan James, former chief sales officer, DuPont *
'This is a must-read book for every sales professional. The authors' groundbreaking research explains how the rules for selling have changed-and what to do about it. If you don't want to be left behind, don't miss this innovative book that provides the new formula for selling success * Ken Revenaugh, vice president, sales operations, Oakwood Temporary Housing *
'Groundbreaking, timely, and disciplined research presented in a way that is both intuitive and completely actionable. It has already had an impact on our organization by creating a customer lens that enhanced our sales recruiting, hiring, training and deployment * Jeff Connor, senior vice president and chief growth officer, ARAMARK Global Food, Hospitality and Facility Services *
'The Challenger Sale shows you how to maintain control of the complex sale. The output of this superbly researched body of work is that you will know how to better differentiate your organization, your offering and yourself in the mind of the customer' * Adrian Norton, vice president, sales, Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals *
'There is a healthy dose of constructive tension throughout this brilliant book. Tension that will bring insight and clarity into how customers buy today and how your sales team must sell. If you are seeking to raise the bar in your sales organization, The Challenger Sale is a must-read' * Tom Meek, vice president, sales, Henkel Adhesives Technologies *
The most important advance in selling for many years. -- Neil Rackham, author of SPIN Selling
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Author's Bio
Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson are managing directors with CEB in Washington, D.C.