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      <description><![CDATA[MIT found 95 percent of generative AI pilots deliver no measurable return, and the money is concentrated where the returns are worst.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Do you need more reps, or better ones?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Quota attainment fell to 43 percent and 58 percent of companies over-assign on purpose. The arithmetic that tells you whether to hire or to fix what you have.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The people person era is over. The product guru era is here.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Relationship selling was a moat when information was scarce. What replaces it, and what a rep now has to know.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three kinds of revenue organization on AI. The one in the middle spends the most and gets the least.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Six months is not a ramp, it is an absence of one. What actually has to happen in each of the eight weeks.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is almost never the person. Founder-led selling was never written down, so there was nothing to reproduce.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Seven go-to-market motions every B2B company is running, whether they know it or not]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every B2B company runs five or more at once. Which ones you run on purpose is the difference between scaling and stalling.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most stage definitions describe seller activity. Here is how to rewrite them around buyer evidence, with examples.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Forecasts miss because stages measure what the seller did instead of what the buyer did. Here is the fix.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Everyone has a theory about what is broken. These three reads tell you before anyone opens their mouth.]]></description>
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