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by Lisa Earle McLeod
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Every salesperson knows the feeling. You are sitting in a Monday morning pipeline review, staring at a spreadsheet full of numbers, and someone asks why the forecast is soft. The conversation turns to activity metrics, call volume, and whether the team needs more aggressive follow-up. The underlying message is clear: push harder, close faster, sell more.
**Author:** Lisa Earle McLeod
**Estimated Reading Time:** 45 minutes
**What You'll Learn:**
- Why salespeople who focus on customer impact consistently outsell those fixated on quotas and commissions - How to craft a Noble Sales Purpose that differentiates you from competitors - The five areas of customer intelligence that transform ordinary sales calls into meaningful conversations - Specific techniques for opening calls, delivering presentations, and negotiating with purpose - How to build an organizational culture where purpose drives performance - Practical ways to align hiring, training, incentives, and technology with your Noble Purpose
**Who This Book Is For:**
Sales professionals who are tired of feeling like pushy stereotypes. Sales leaders who want to build teams that win without resorting to discounting. Business owners who suspect there is a better way to grow revenue. And anyone who has ever wondered whether making money and making a difference can coexist in the same role.
Every salesperson knows the feeling. You are sitting in a Monday morning pipeline review, staring at a spreadsheet full of numbers, and someone asks why the forecast is soft. The conversation turns to activity metrics, call volume, and whether the team needs more aggressive follow-up. The underlying message is clear: push harder, close faster, sell more. But here is what rarely gets discussed in those meetings. The salespeople who are actually winning the biggest deals, building the strongest relationships, and sustaining their performance year after year are not the ones obsessing over their commission checks. They are the ones who genuinely believe their product or service makes their customers' lives better. They walk into every conversation with a sense of mission that has nothing to do with their own quota. Lisa Earle McLeod discovered this pattern through years of consulting with sales organizations across dozens of industries. She noticed something counterintuitive. When she asked top performers what drove them, they talked about their customers. When she asked struggling performers the same question, they talked about their numbers. The difference was not talent, experience, or market conditions. It was orientation. This observation led to a research study that confirmed what she had been seeing in the field. Salespeople who sold with what she calls Noble Purpose, a genuine desire to make a difference to customers, consistently outsold their colleagues who were focused primarily on sales goals and money. The finding was consistent across industries, company sizes, and experience levels. Purpose outperformed profit focus. The problem is that most sales organizations are built on an outdated assumption. They believe that salespeople are primarily motivated by money, so they design compensation plans, training programs, and management practices around that belief. They create cultures where the internal conversation revolves around quotas, pipelines,…
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Craft a Noble Sales Purpose that articulates the impact you have on customers and the specific area where you have it.
Gather deep customer intelligence in five areas: environment, goals, challenges, success definition, and failure costs.
Open conversations with the You-Me-You structure: start with the customer, establish relevance, return to the customer.
Lead presentations with customer intelligence and articulate how the customer will be different after working with you.
Negotiate from purpose by returning to customer goals rather than immediately discounting.
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