Stop Selling and Start Leading: How to Make Extraordinary Sales Happen - Hardcover

Kouzes, James M.; Posner, Barry Z.; Calvert, Deb

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1119446287 ISBN 13: 9781119446286

Publisher: Wiley, 2018

Synopsis

NAMED THE #3 TOP SALES BOOK OF 2018!

Make extraordinary sales happen! 

In the Age of the Customer, sales effectiveness depends mightily on the buyer experience. Despite nearly-universal agreement on the need for creating value in every step of the buyer’s journey, sellers continue to struggle with how to create that value and connect meaningfully with buyers. New research bridges the gap and reveals the behavioral blueprint for sellers that makes buyers more likely to meet with them — and more likely to buy from them.

In Stop Selling & Start Leading, you’ll discover that the very same behaviors that make leaders more effective also work to make sellers more effective, too. This critical shift in the selling mindset, and in the sales role itself, is the key to boosting your overall sales effectiveness.

·          Inspire, challenge, and enable buyers
·          Change your behavior to build trust and increase sales
·          Step into your leadership potential
·          See yourself the way your buyers do
·          Feel good about selling again

When you’re aiming for quota attainment and real connections with buyers, this book gives you the confidence and skills you need.

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From the Back Cover:

PRAISE FOR STOP SELLING & START LEADING

"Instead of reinforcing typical selling behaviors, this terrific book focuses on leadership qualities and a values-based approach that will delight your customers and enliven your sense of purpose."
—Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell is Human and When

"Modern selling must center around transparency, integrity, and true customer focus. Stop Selling & Start Leading presents a proven approach toward this new age of selling."
—Mark Roberge, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School

"Backed by detailed research, Stop Selling & Start Leading shows the right way to win business: cultivating long-term client relationships built on authority, mutual respect, and trust. This essential playbook will transform your approach to sales."
—Dorie Clark, author and adjunct professor, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business

"Top sellers turn failures into opportunities, obstacles into challenges, and possibilities into realities. Stop Selling & Start Leading is filled with fresh research and strategies to help sellers transform this success mindset into daily behaviors—and ultimately, close more deals."
—Jill Konrath, author of More Sales, Less Time and SNAP Selling

"Stop Selling & Start Leading is critical reading for those who want to sell effectively in the future and a book that was desperately needed. If you aspire to be a peer and a trusted advisor, there is simply no better blueprint available to you. Read this with a great sense of urgency."
—Anthony Iannarino, author, The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need and The Lost Art of Closing

FEEL GOOD ABOUT SELLING AGAIN AND MAKE EXTRAORDINARY SALES

Stop Selling & Start Leading reveals how you can adopt The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® to become an extraordinary seller. You'll learn from research with buyers and stories from sellers about how and why this critical behavioral shift will boost your sales effectiveness. And you'll discover a whole new way of thinking about selling as you step into your full potential as a seller who leads buyers to exciting new heights.

From the Inside Flap:

Buyers have changed, and they expect sellers to make changes too. Today's savvy buyers are impatient with old-school selling tactics and stereotypical sales behaviors. They want sellers who create personalized value and build bonds of trust, sellers who provide a meaningful and relevant experience, and sellers who demonstrate genuine leadership. Your buyers want you to inspire and motivate them while giving them an opportunity to participate in creating something extraordinary. They want you to collaborate with them, strengthen them, and encourage them in the process. They avoid transactions when they anticipate a seller will leave them feeling suspicious, sidelined or manipulated. Unfortunately, they anticipate that most of the time.

That's why, to differentiate yourself, and to become a seller of choice and make more sales, you need to Stop Selling & Start Leading. Sellers need to stop behaving like stereotypes found in The Wolf of Wall Street and Glengarry Glen Ross. In place of those mindsets and behaviors, you can choose to lead. Your buyers want you to behave like a leader. Discover within the blueprint of seller behaviors that buyers will respond to favorably, and will cause them to meet and buy from you.

Based on research with hundreds of buyers and sellers, Stop Selling & Start Leading reveals how the same principles and behaviors of the celebrated leadership model developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner applies equally well to exemplary sellers. More importantly, it shows you how to leverage the power of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® to consistently make extraordinary sales. The Five Practices are the result of over three decades of research as Jim and Barry gathered and analyzed data to zero in on the behaviors consistently exhibited by the most successful leaders. Their model for leadership is an exact match for what modern buyers want from sellers and to the personal best stories told by successful sellers.

Ready to unleash your leadership potential and become the seller your buyers want you to be? It's all right here, waiting for you in Stop Selling & Start Leading.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1119446287
• ISBN 13: 9781119446286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224