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Why Your Sales Team is Stuck - And How to Fix It for Scalable Growth
The latest Gartner research on the DNA of top sales organizations highlights a fundamental shift in how leading companies drive...
Brian Shea
Mar 193 min read
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Why Sales Leaders Face a Clear Mandate in 2025 to Invest in Sales Effectiveness as a Strategic Advantage
As we close out 2024, B2B sales metrics are sounding alarms. According to Corporate Visions, win rates for closed-won deals have dropped...
Brian Shea
Nov 25, 20243 min read
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Hey 6sense - Don't Bury the Lead!
After reading this recent blog from 6sense, I felt a tectonic plate shifting under my feet. https://6sense.com/blog/higher-outbound-win-r...
Brian Shea
Mar 21, 20242 min read
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Navigating Revenue Scaling: Common Questions from Founder-Led CEOs
At #LucrumPartners our engagements with founder-led CEOs begin with these boot strapping leaders asking a variety of questions about...
Brian Shea
Feb 29, 20243 min read
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"Understanding the Difference: Short Term Growth Vs. Readiness to Scale for CEOs"
Scalable go-to-market (GTM) processes are strategies and frameworks designed to efficiently and effectively bring products or services to...
Brian Shea
Feb 12, 20244 min read
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CEOs Should NOT Publish a 2024 GTM Strategy Without a North Star
Headline: Data-driven organizations outperform their competitors. (But you likely already knew this) CEOs today can no longer rely on...
Brian Shea
Nov 15, 20232 min read
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The Top Strategic Business Priorities Being Measured by BOTH CEOs and CFOs.
Know Thy Buyer (and their business)!!! The #LucrumPartners team continues to hear how often B2B sellers are encountering CFOs as key...
Brian Shea
Aug 29, 20233 min read
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Building Scalable B2B Go To Market Muscles
"No Pain, No Gain" I don't believe that phrase came out of pipeline review or forecasting meetings. But perhaps it should have. Sales...
Brian Shea
Aug 16, 20233 min read
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Too many sales leaders have forgotten this childhood lesson
We all remember the Tupperware "Shape-O" toy. It was a round puzzle that taught young children how to fit the right blocks into the right...
Brian Shea
Jul 25, 20232 min read
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"We've been managing the wrong sales metrics........"
In a recent revenue engine maturity workshop, or simply put, the "why aren't we scaling?" session, the infographic below served as the...
Brian Shea
Jul 11, 20232 min read
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CEOs need to pause, pivot and reinvent sales workforce productivity
As confirmed by the recently released the Gartner 2023-2024 CEO survey of top strategic priorities, driving business productivity and rebuil
Brian Shea
Jun 1, 20232 min read
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Gartner: The Future is Bright for Revenue Enablement But Not for Traditional "Sales Management"
Warning: The following will raise the blood pressure of heads of sales. Gartner recently stated that by 2026, 60% of enablement functions...
Brian Shea
May 15, 20232 min read
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Private Equity Managers Shouldn't Pay for Last Seasons Performance
If you're a sports fan, you can likely remember a sports team who traded for or signed a high priced free agent star athlete. The...
Brian Shea
May 1, 20232 min read
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So Someone Else Has Caught Your Eye?
Brian Shea, Principal, Lucrum Partners An increasing number of emerging growth B2B CEOs are considering ditching their internal sales...
Brian Shea
Apr 11, 20233 min read
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