Without a sale, no other department in the business need exist, so it’s no surprise that capability and expertise in selling should be placed front and centre in any business growth strategy. However, if the owner/entrepreneur is a natural sales person themselves, ironically that natural ability and heroic sales flair can actually become an inhibitor to scale as the company matures.
A Heroic Sales Leader, is someone who leads the sales effort from the front, who keeps all of the customer related information in their head and who has built a sales system around themselves fine when you’re a start-up and your only goal is gaining that initial sales traction. However, when the company begins to enter the scale-up phase, that same person often becomes a frustrating bottle-neck that strangles growth potential.
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