Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Over the next few weeks I’ll be going to several countries to spread the word, teach Buying Facilitation®, keynote, and license new trainers who will be teaching Buying Facilitation® in other countries. The most interesting fact about this is that the interest is not coming from my new book Dirty Little Secrets but from my years/decades of writing and lecturing and speaking about Buying Factiliation®. I’m hearing things like: I’ve been waiting until I had a stable sales force to bring you in; I’ve had to wait until I was promoted before I could bring you in; I’ve read your books with interest, and am now in charge of the bottom line and can’t imagine doing it without us learning Buying Facilitation®.
I have longed for this moment. Worked hard, hoping that the silence and resistance, doubt and annoyance I’ve experienced since the 80s (and sometimes still do), would someday open to change. As my old mentor Willis Harmon (the beloved futurist who started Institute of Noetic Sciences and wrote the book Global Mind Change in 1990) used to tell me, “Sharon Drew! You can’t get there from here!” And I knew he was right – I just didn’t know what to do about it. So I did the only thing a cockeyed optimist knows how to do – keep the faith, keep writing and speaking, and trust that some day I’d make myself heard. On my desk I used to have a large sign that read: “Behind every might oak was a nut that held its ground.” I was almost proud to be the nut. But the truth was, I didn’t know how to do anything else.
But now, it seems as if it’s happened, that the world is ready and I have a place in it. Someone recently asked me if I was proud of the contribution I”ve made (’You weren’t ahead of the curve – you MADE the curve.”). I realized that I’m not proud. But I sure am relieved. How fortunate I am to know that my life has made a difference.
About Sharon Drew Morgen Sharon Drew Morgen is the visionary and thought leader behind Buying Facilitation® the new sales paradigm that focuses on helping buyers manage their buying decision. She is the author of the NYTimes Business Bestseller Selling with Integrity as well as 5 other books and hundreds of articles that explain different aspects of the decision facilitation model that teaches buyers how to buy.
Morgen dramatically shifts the buying decision tools from solution-focused to decision-support. Sales very competently manages the solution placement end of the decision, yet buyers have been left on their own while sellers are left waiting for a response, and hoping they can close. But no longer: Morgen actually gives sellers the tools to lead buyers through all of their internal, idiosyncratic decisions.
Morgen teaches Buying Facilitation® to global corporations, and she licenses the material with training companies seeking to add new skills to what they are already offering their clients. She has a new book coming out October 15, 2009 called Dirty Little Secrets: why buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell and what you can do about it which defines what is happening within buyer’s cultures (systems) and explains how they make the decisions they make.
Morgen has focused on the servant-leader/decision facilitation aspect of sales since her first book came out in 1992, called Sales On The Line.
In all of her books, she unmasks the behind-the-scenes decisions that need to go on before buyers choose a solution, and gives sellers the tools to aid them.
In addition, Morgen changes the success rate of sales from the accepted 10% to 40%: the time it takes buyers to come up with their own answers is the length of the sales cycle, and her books – especially Dirty Little Secrets – teaches sellers how to guide the buyers through to all of their decisions, thereby shifting the sales cycle from a failed model that only manages half of the buying cycle, to a very competent Professional skill set.
Morgen lives in Austin TX, where she dances and works with children’s fund raising projects in her spare time.
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