Matthew Dixon Knihy

"Matthew Dixon, coauthor of The Challenger Sale, offers a new approach to overcoming customer indecision and closing more sales. He and coauthor Ted McKenna apply research to the problem of customer indecision, and offer a new approach that turns the conventional wisdom on its head. Drawing on a new study of more than two and a half million sales conversations from across industry, they reveal that only by addressing the customer's fear of failure can a salesperson get indecisive buyers to go from verbally committing to actually making the purchase"-- Provided by publisher.650

This book draws on recent developments across a range of perspectives including psychoanalysis, narrative studies, social practice theory, posthumanism and trans-species psychology, to establish a radical psychosocial alternative to mainstream understanding of 'environmental problems'.

The latest research from the bestselling authors of The Challenger Sale uncovers a surprising insight: success in sales hinges not only on adopting the Challenger selling approach but also on the specific individuals you choose to challenge. This revelation emphasizes the importance of strategic targeting in the sales process, suggesting that the effectiveness of a Challenger seller is significantly influenced by their understanding of the relationships and dynamics within their market.

This book challenges traditional relationship-building in B2B sales, revealing that most sales reps fit into five profiles. Among them, only the Challenger consistently achieves high performance, suggesting a new approach to selling complex solutions.

Conventional Wisdom holds that to increase loyalty, companies must "delight" customers by exceeding service expectations. But no matter how exciting special deals may be, the "dazzle factor" does not solve customer problems.This book presents a breakthrough idea about how to win customer loyalty.

Shares the secret to sales success: don't just build relationships with customers. This title argues that classic relationship-building is the wrong approach.

What is the secret to sales success? If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships-and you'd be wrong. The best salespeople don't just build relationships with customers. They challenge them. The need to understand what top-performing reps are doing that their average performing colleagues are not drove Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, and their colleagues at Corporate Executive Board to investigate the skills, behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes that matter most for high performance. And what they discovered may be the biggest shock to conventional sales wisdom in decades. Based on an exhaustive study of thousands of sales reps across multiple industries and geographies, The Challenger Sale argues that classic relationship building is a losing approach, especially when it comes to selling complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions. The authors' study found that every sales rep in the world falls into one of five distinct profiles, and while all of these types of reps can deliver average sales performance, only one-the Challenger- delivers consistently high performance. -- Jacket

From the authors of the internationally-bestselling business classic The Challenger Sale 'A handbook of practices that will help you get into your customers' heads, deliver good value, and win the sale' Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive --------------------------------------------------------------- In The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson overturned decades of conventional wisdom with a bold new approach to sales. Now they reveal something even more surprising: the highest-performing sales teams don't focus on friendly, attentive customers. Instead, they target challenger customers. Challenger customers are sceptical, less interested in meeting and ultimately indifferent as to who wins the deal. But they also have the credibility, persuasive skill and will to challenge the status quo that will get a deal to the finish line far more often than customers who are easier to connect with. Based on new research from thousands of B2B marketers, sellers and buyers around the world, The Challenger Customer shows you how to find these 'mobilizers' and equip them with the tools to effectively challenge their own organizations on your behalf. This ground-breaking book is the blueprint you need to make the sale again and again.

Focusing on the fundamental question of the relation between the individual and society, this book demonstrates how global economic and employment structures, neo-liberal discourse, the role of emotion, irrationality and ambiguity are factors that impact upon the shape and resilience of the self.