He hired me to fix his sales team. The sales team was fine.
A few years ago, a distribution company CEO hired me to fix a broken sales team.
He paid me well. And they had real problems.
Except the problem wasn't where he thought it was.
Every recommendation hit a wall. Every conversation ended with reasons why it couldn't work. The sales team wasn't the issue. The person supposed to be leading them was.
I told him straight: I can't fix a leadership problem with a sales solution.
I was paid in full, and left with almost nothing implemented.
Three years later he called back.
Nothing had changed. Revenue flat. Same team. Same excuses. Same wall.
This time he was ready. Really ready. He even offered to pay me again.
We built a simple CRM, a tracking process, clear accountability at every level, and made the changes he refused to make years earlier.
Revenue moved. For the first time in years.
The hardest part of fixing a sales problem is admitting where it actually lives.
You don't have a sales problem. You have a leadership accountability problem.
If you've been waiting three years, you already know what's broken.

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