We're hurtling toward the Independence Day weekend and the beaches and lakes and country porches are calling. Maybe you'd feel guilty spending a couple of days on some Dean Koontz thriller but are intimidated by something like "Capital in the 21st Century." Or perhaps you'd just like to take a fresh look at your strategy and approach, and come back from your summer break with fresh momentum. With that in mind, here are a few previously recommended sales and management books to toss in your bag as you head out for the long weekend.
Anyone who's been in a workshop with me in recent years will be familiar with "The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation." For my money, this is the best sales book of the past 15 years, and particularly relevant for the asymmetrical, dynamic world of online marketing. An efficient and engaging read over its first 100 pages, "The Challenger Sale" exposes the failings of "solution selling" and butchers many of the sacred cows of sales theory.
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While not technically a sales book, "A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future" just may be the most important thing a digital seller reads this summer. We're all drowning in statistics and throwing data at one another with savage regularity: but where's the meaning? It turns out that - just like Dorothy - we had the power all along. By tapping into your inner artist, you learn to synthesize, fuse ideas, interpret and make the numbers start to sing. And you can finally show your Dad that the painting class you took senior year wasn't a waste of tuition after all.
