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The book’s a bit of a research-slog from CEB, but the content is worth taking note of. Corporate decision-making has shifted, “sales methodology” is in decline, negotiation theory in the ascendant. The relationship selling approach of pleasing is superseded by an approach of stretching the client. For some companies this attitude pumps through their arteries, for others, the whole business development psyche has to be inverted.
