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How to Set More-Realistic Sales Targets using Historical Data

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Nosbusch took over CEO duties from Don Davis, still chairman of Rockwell Automation, following the company’s annual shareholders meeting. Why do most chief executives and managers feel the need to announce bold sales growth targets? If the manager surveys the salesforce, so the goals come from the bottom up, it gets named like that.

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Senior Leadership: Fertilizer for your Growth Strategy

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Senior executives know that, beyond mergers and acquisitions, a company’s growth is driven one deal at a time by the way salespeople sell and negotiate. We had our senior managers not only sponsor the initiative, but actually participate in the workshop and learn how to do it themselves. That’s why American companies spend $7.2