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Frank Cespedes teaches at Harvard Business School and for 12 years was Managing Partner at a professional services firm. He has worked with many companies on go-to-market and strategy issues, and has been a Board Member at consumer goods, industrial products, and services firms.
He has written for numerous publications, and is the author of six books including Aligning Strategy and Sales which was cited as “the best sales book of the year” (Strategy & Business), “a must read” (Gartner), and “perhaps the best sales book ever” (Forbes).
His newest book is Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021).
According to Frank, business development and growth are core leadership responsibilities. But the impact on sales activities of new buying processes, e-commerce, big data, and other megatrends is often misunderstood.
We discuss how to separate signal from noise and the implications for hiring, training, performance management, and relevant sales models.
Over a 25 year career Steven has been responsible for more than US$4 billion of sales with major tech companies such as Dell, and Targus across the Asia Pacific.
Steven is an accomplished frontline sales and business leader, keynote speaker, consultant and author, dedicated to helping B2B sales leaders implement world-class sales practices.
Years of intense B2B sales research and analysis led to the foundation of Growth Acumen, a modern sales and leadership training, development and advisory service
