Episodes

Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Udi Ledergor, CMO at #Gong chats to me in the 430th episode of #TheInquisitorPodcast about sales and marketing alignment to create the best conditions for salespeople to thrive in their roles. We also discuss what the data tells us about many of the qualities of the best salespeople. We dig into how culture impacts performance.
Practical as always, Udi's insights are based on the actual behavioural data of millions of real salespeople. Listen up folks
Contact Udi via linkedin.com/in/udiledergor
Websites
- bit.ly/showsecrets (My Book on Amazon)
- udiledergor.com (Personal)
Twitter: ledergor
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Thanks for listening and happy selling ...

Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Allan Adler Ecosystems Relationships and Partnerships
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Allan Adler is the creator of #GoToEcosystems #Community and the #EcoOps Method. He is founder of Digital Bridge Partners, tech investor and in my opinion, Allan is one of the 3 freshest minds alive in sales today - ask me who the other 2 are by DM
What is an ecosystem?
What makes ecosystems work?
On average why are partner assisted 70% larger than cold prospected deals?
Allan explores 21st century#ERP
- Ecosystems
- Relationships
- Partnerships
If you can MAKE THE TIME to the #PLXSummit in November. You can register FREE here. 5 days of #Ecosystem action leaders sharing their real world experience.
https://www.plxsummit.com/ 7th-11th November
Website: digitalbridgepartners.com (Company)
Phone: +1 425-239-8774 (Mobile)
Email: allan@digitalbridgepartners.com
Twitter: digitalbridgep
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What do you want your career to give you in life?
How certain are you that where you're headed is where you want to take your life and career?
What's your plan to make that happen?
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Monday Oct 24, 2022
Bob Moesta: The 5 Bedrock Skills of Innovators and Entrepreneurs
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Bob Moesta is one of the 2 freshest minds in sales today. He apprenticed under Drs W. Edwards Demming, Genichi Taguchi, Willie Hobbs Moore and Clayton Christensen.
We explore what #innovation is, and isn't. Bob then unpacks the 5 key skills great innovators demonstrate. He will unlock new ways of looking at your problems, understanding them, and producing solutions to real problems that people want to buy.
Get Learning to Build here - https://tinyurl.com/2cw38ubz
If you want to contact Bob (and I strongly suggest you do), the catch him on via linkedin.com/in/bobmoesta
Websites:
- therewiredgroup.com/ (Company)
- bobmoesta.com (Personal)
- jobstobedone.org (Blog)
Phone: +1 586-531-9745 (Mobile)
Email: bmoesta@rewiredinc.com
Twitter: bmoesta
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Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Rob Morley, co-founder The Fountain Partnership. Our topic of conversation is #neurodiversity. His condition is #ADHD. We identify a few of the more commonly known #neurodiverse conditions are #Aspergers, #Autism, #Dyslexia with the lens of how do turn these conditions into gifts.
We begin by defining what neurodiversity is and isn't, and how the labels and words we use make all the difference in how we perceive a situation and judge people.
We explore the economic and human arguments for building diverse teams of people - a range of histories, demographics, ethnic, religious, age are great - but unless the team is neurodiverse, there is a grave danger of groupthink and parochialism taking root. Rob and I dig into intentionally hiring for neurodiversity
Rob can be contacted on linkedin.com/in/robmorley2
Website: fountainpartnership.co.uk
Email: rob@fountainpartnership.co.uk
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Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Klisman Murati is founder and CEO of Pareto Economics, the creators of The Global Power Index, GPI™ which is used by governments, investors, family offices to have a lens 30 years into the future. THE GPI™ shows how capable a country is of achieving what it sets out to and it is measured in relation to other countries globally and locally.
Unless you start looking above the clouds, you run the serious risk of being caught out through lack of preparedness and acting upon poor and incomplete information.
Klisman is a fascinating character. I met him when he gatecrashed one of my classes and became a key contributor to the entrepreneurship programme back in 2012 when I was teaching at Roehampton University. His story is very impressive especially when you consider the impact the GPI™ Index will have on global investments. Definitely one to watch in the future.
Contact Klisman via linkedin.com/in/klisman-murati especially if you want to be invited to the GPI™ Conference in 2024.
Websites
- pareto-economics.com (Company)
- klismanmurati.com (Personal)
Twitter: KlisEmm
Klisman Murati Shownotes:
Pareto Resources
Pareto Economics Website: https://pareto-economics.com/
Global Power Index 2022 Rankings: https://pareto-economics.com/global-power-index/
Pareto Economics YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCByNVk6Z4YRTLMKNyhu3bBw
Klisman Murati’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/klisman-murati/
Global Power Index 2022 Core Report: https://pareto-economics.com/product/global-power-index-core-report/
Klisman’s book recommendations:
Globalisation and its discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
FREE by Lea Ypi
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets by George Soros
Blood Oil by Leif Wenar
Millennium by Felipe Fernandez - Armesto
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Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Fergus Connolly and Johan Taft are both extraordinary high performance coaches helping successful people grow to meet their full potential ... and then stretch some more.
We discuss the importance of regular attention on fundamentals, on purpose, discipline and commitment. We dig into mindset, beliefs, attitudes, values and needs. We dig into the habits of success and the barriers.
Make sure you also check out the episode coming up in a couple of weeks with former SBS Sergeant Major, Garry Bamford. He was head of recruitment for UK Special Forces and knows a thing or two about selection and recruitment of highly talented interdependent team players who understand that they serve the mission and their teammates before they serve themselves.
Contact Johan via linkedin.com/in/magnifyyourgreatness
Websites
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magnifyyourgreatness.com (Company Website)
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sportingmindmastery.com/ (Company Website)
Fergus can be found at linkedin.com/in/fergusconnolly
Websites
- fergusconnolly.com (Company)
- fergusconnolly.com/lessons-from-sport (Company)
- fergusconnolly.com/blog (Blog)
Twitter: Fergus_Connolly
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Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
"Lead with answers that create questions in your buyer", says Dr Brian Glibkowski, creator of Answer Intelligence (AQ)™. We are often taught that "our credibility comes from the questions we ask, not the information that we give" and to a point that is true. Ask great, thought provoking, insightful questions and you clearly demonstrate your competence and credibility. But do we really pay anywhere near enough attention on the answers you give?
In the same way that you are unlikely to ever hear an original objection or be asked an original question, ALL of these communication moments can be planned, prepared and rehearsed until they are a natural part of every salesperson's and manager's repertoire.
individuals overemphasise on questions and minimise importance of answers
Brian continues, "Sellers have no typology of answers. We have the 6WH typology for questions but we don't pay critical attention and focus on becoming better at providing answers. There is often a mismatch between their questions and our answers resulting in disconnected conversation, a lack of listening and the quality of answers is shallow."
You can't sell shallow and sell deep at the same time. The lack of intentionality is projected out from sellers to buyers, who reflect back the high self-orientation of sellers who too often aren't present because they are listening for a gap to speak or ask their next manipulative, self-serving question. Some really juicy material in this episode.
Twitter: sixQSoftware
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Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Pasha Irshad, founder of Shape & Scale chats to me about the rise of the tech stack, performance decline, marketing waste and the entrenched idiocy of old thinking in the current environment.
Pasha advises companies on their marketing and their tech stack to ensure it is delivering the intended results and fit to scale. A value packed show that needs plenty of note taking
Contact Pasha via linkedin.com/in/pashairshad
Websites:
shapeandscale.co (Company)

Monday Oct 03, 2022
How Wonder & Curiosity Inspire Us, Challenge Toughens Us, and People Make Us
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Michael Vincent is a world renowned close up magician, the most senior non-white member of the Magic Circle, a powerful keynote speaker on #leadership, #management, #DEI #Diversity, #Equity and #Inclusion, #performanceexcellence and #sales. His story of struggle over many years, and how rising to excellence has so many parallels with success in sales and management. How did his mentors affect his trajectory and velocity? Listen and learn. How did losing his hearing in 2013 affect him? How did he react and eventually apply his training to adapt?
Here's his Tedx Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_vincent_the_magic_of_perception_mine_yours_and_ours
Mike explains how growing up, in 1970's London as the Afro-Caribbean only child of a single mother he was largely isolated by circumstances. His mother taught him to read very early and he lived in books. When he saw his first magic show, his wonder and astonishment led him to the library and 6 years of practice in isolation.
A happy meeting with his first mentor, Alan Allan, introduced Mike to a world that was previously beyond his awareness, taking him to perform across the world. A master of his craft technically, Mike explains the importance of the performance, understanding your audience and above all, understanding and acceptance of yourself. His investment in his mind, his stage performance, his communication goes well beyond mere technical performance. His stage presence is flawless, seemingly effortless and the product of a relentless pursuit of mastery of the fundamentals.
Over the past 3 years Mike had to give up work to look after his mother. This chapter in his life carries so many lessons for our humanity and prioritising what really matters even at a personal price.
Some of you will find this a tough episode because it holds up the mirror to who we really are and who we could be. A smörgesbord for thought in episode 421 of #TheInquisitorPodcast
Contact Mike via linkedin.com/in/michael-vincent-665a01
Email: michaelvincent64@mac.com
Websites:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/michaelvincentmagic
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Thursday Sep 29, 2022
What’s The Real Purpose of Enablement and Why’s it Done so Badly?
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Sam Robinson says, "It's your buyers choice to buy, not yours to sell". He's a Red to Blue Coach, director of Greenock FC and his day job is sales enablement leader for the media giant, Dentsu.
"Enablement is a business function not a training function," says Sam. We delve into the most effective working relationship between enablement, the Board and the business. How well does enablement support the Board's responsibility to drive results? Why isn't enablement a profit centre? How does enablement's focus on the wrong end of the problem undermine trust and respect? Who is asking the hard questions? How do you make engagement engaging?
Listen, take notes, tag a friend
Contact Sam via linkedin.com/in/sam-robinson-4a29326
Phone: +44 (0)7480 656 266 (Mobile)