Erich Starrett hosts Dr. Brian Lambert - co-founder of OSC, SES, and co-host of Inside Sales Enablement seasons one and two, back in the Orchestrate Sales Studios, for part one of two. A treat to have the epitome of past, present, and future enablement back on the property.
And yes, of course he was there at the original founding and one of the ~hundred four founders I'm on a mission to interview over time was right there with @Scott Santucci and the other 99-ish.
And BOY has it grown! He did a Google search on Sales Enablement way back in 2008 and got a hundred hits. He just did it again in the pre show and ...how about six million!
Brian architected an early "PhD in Sales" building on an organizational behavior degree with an emphasis on sales in his dissertation, and multiple publications in academic journals. Having also been cited over 200 times he may just be on Dr. Rob Peterson and Howard Dover's heels.
He's been a salesperson with a quota. He's been a sales manager with a team. He's been a sales enablement manager with a team of ~20. And most recently he took on the role of Big Data Value Architect at Elastic, where he is in a marketing messaging role, messaging enablement.
Highlights from the first part of our interview
PAST...
⌛️ Brian's reaction when he first heard the word "Enablement." (hint: it wasn't positive)
⌛️ Brian first crossed paths with @Scott Santucci at a conference an heard him speak about his blueprint. That's where he originally heard Scott share the vision of value architects, communicating value and being orchestrators.
⌛️ When at Forrester, Scott had to do a lot of work to sell this idea that there were people doing "this thing called Enablement." That people where challenging the status quo siloed view and breaking down the walls among sales training, marketing, ops, and other functions.
PRESENT
⌛️ Since corporate silos were born of the industrial revolution, why are they still the status quo and such a massive challenge in a hyper connected digital world where technically silos shouldn't matter?
⌛️ What does it mean to be an #Orchestrator? Why is it important?
⌛️ What if Enablement is not the right home for orchestration?
⌛️ Of the "four flavors of Sales Enablement" set forth at the SES founding, what percentage of each flavor would most who identify as Sales / Revenue enablement be?
💰Pipeline Enablement?
📝 Message Enablement?
👥 Organizational Enablement?
🎓 Talent Enablement?
FUTURE
⌛️ Brian's take on whether or not Sales Enablement will ever become the vision that the SES founders had of a cross-functional strategic function.
⌛️ Was the opportunity Covid presented by accelerating a move from the status quo to digital economy one that has been missed or is there still a hero's call to adventure for enablement?
⌛️ Accountability is not prevalent in most Enablement, or marketing, or operations. Salespeople are grounded in data and accountability. They are the ones that get fired. When will there be more accountability for the support team?
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Hello everyone.
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:And welcome the inside sales enablement
season three enablement history.
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:And boy, do we have the epitome
of past present and future
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:enablement right here with me.
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:Dr.
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:Brian Lambert, and I
might take up the first.
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:15 minutes just introing him
and then I'll let him fill in
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:the blanks on anything I missed.
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:So he was , of course, the original
co host of Inside Sales Enablement.
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:So we've got alumni back.
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:He was also the co founder
with me of orchestratesales.
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:com.
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:Personal history and legacy for me.
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:He was the one of the
original Sales enablement.
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:If you think about it through the
lens of Scott Santucci founding
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:the sales enablement practice
at Forrester back in the day.
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:The first person he hired was Brian.
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the lens of sales enablement consultancy.
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:And back then he was just
sharing a tidbit with me.
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:He did a Google search on sales
enablement back in that:
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:time frame and got a hundred hits.
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:He just did it this
morning in the pre show.
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:How about six million?
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:So I think we're on to something folks.
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:And so he is unique as well in that
when we talk about the flavors of sales
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:enablement, and yes, of course he was
there at the original founding and one of
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:the Those hundred coveted four founders
I'm hunting down over time was right
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:there with Scott in the other 99 ish.
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:And he does have in fact a PhD in
essentially sales and that was by choice.
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:He addressed it through organizational
behavior with an emphasis on sales.
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:Did a dissertation or two
or three academic journals.
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:He's been cited over 200 times.
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:He's maybe on Howard Dover's heels
and he's done a combination of
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:He's been a salesperson with a quota.
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:He's been a sales manager with a team.
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:He's been a sales enablement manager
with a team of, I don't know, 20 plus.
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:And most recently, and I'm excited
to hear more, his current title,
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:Big Data Value Architect at Elastic,
where he is in a marketing messaging
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:role, messaging enablement.
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:So all of that said, Brian you would
think I didn't miss anything, but fill
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into the coveted seven questions of ISE.
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:Brian Lambert: I appreciate it.
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:That's probably way enough about me.
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:It's interesting.
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:I I don't get a chance to
really reflect on that.
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:I appreciate that.
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:I think for me, it's,
quite an interesting time.
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:There's a lot going on and I look
forward to definitely exploring that.
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:And thanks for having me on the show.
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:Erich Starrett: Absolutely.
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:Brian ecstatic to have you here.
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:Question one is almost funny to
ask you, when did you first hear
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:the words sales enablement and what
did, or do they mean to you, Dr.
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:Brian Lambert of sales enablement,
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:Brian Lambert: Yeah, it
was probably:
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:The first time I heard it, I was like, I
have a people, a lot of people background.
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enabling others as a negative thing.
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:I like you're an enabler and bad behavior.
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:I did read an article on Reddit that
asked somebody posted, Why do salespeople
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:all take drugs or drink too much?
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Reddit thread, last week.
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:But
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:Erich Starrett: We could go down a
rabbit hole on that one couldn't we?.
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, Brian Lambert: So that was the first time, and I remember looking
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:at who owns the domain name?
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:And somebody did, and I think it
was Craig Nelson and you might
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:Erich Starrett: Yeah, he's
done it on very bullet point.
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:You nailed it, man.
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:Brian Lambert: Yeah, okay.
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met him and there were a
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and people just pouring articles
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conference and I heard him speak about
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:his blueprint of sales and Had a really
interesting conversation with him there.
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:Erich Starrett: That's awesome.
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:So what, was there ever anything
other than those two words when
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he was developing this blueprint?
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the word enablement or was
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behind the curtain?
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we've always explored it is that
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and it's a function that drives.
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everything fleshed out, but it was very
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from, traditional sales training
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this idea of being a value architect
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now is value architect.
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that and Scott shared is the vision
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value and being orchestrators,
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on now for, 20 years or so as
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really not the discussion.
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to what could this become and
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had to do a lot of work to sell
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that there were people doing this
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marketing, the people in sales
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trying to explain to people that
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new digital economy role, right?
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didn't really matter what it was called.
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by traditional siloed thinking.
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helped people communicate value.
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is completely changing.
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started back in the:
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you use the word role.
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back and said, Hey, here's what the
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a role, a function, a profession.
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:Brian Lambert: A process, a technology?
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:Erich Starrett: Process?
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of those things where I've
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the vision that, that we had because.
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role in a technology.
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the strategic function that we envisioned.
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to the fact that it's not making it.
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fact that the sales enablement folks
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really focused on the same things that
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and a go to market perspective.
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with a lot of sales enablement
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grounded in data and accountability
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in, data and accountability.
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at least 20 salespeople who've
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sales enablement and it's like when
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and that accountability and that focus
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most enablement quote unquote teams
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it'll become a strategic function.
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there's a shot, if we can close that
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the counter to that is, I would argue
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of people reaching out to you.
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you want to look at it through the
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I know vehemently agree.
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opportunity that COVID presented.
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the, of the ISE leaned way into that
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think has been missed or is there
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lands of the flavors, which I think
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the flavors of enablement, if you
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triangles and squares and circles.
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there's an organizational enablement, and
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that are all flavors or pillars of
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people would get really sorted
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doing, There's quite a few teams
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kickoffs and sales events, but they
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to actually hold the room.
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planners and coordinators of
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enablement all the way from the hiring
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cetera, are they getting people promoted?
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are getting fired.
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if I sort everybody into
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is really talent enablement.
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doing I don't think they're actually
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what Scott would call hire to retire.
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percent is talent enablement,
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about the value of cost of
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most sales enablement that do pipeline
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technology space, working on outreach or
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many reorgs or mergers have enablement
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the room where we're actually redesigning
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merger and figuring out the roles and
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many people that have done that.
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sales enablement space
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They're in other roles and other functions like go to market strategy,
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considered more of the strategists and
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talent enablement or sales training.
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generally the same ballpark.
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a 10 to 15 percent message.
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combination of demand and
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those conversations too.
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where people sit and let's forget
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just pull them out of an organization and
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it on a table and then have the executive
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do you think is doing sales enablement?
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because without the org chart and
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say who's responsible for really helping
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in a really fascinating spot, which is.
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technically sit in marketing.
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in, go to market teams.
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cards that are labeled enablement.
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leaders would consider quote unquote
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envisioned for enablement was to
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the org chart is getting in the
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thinking of who reports into who and.
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this redundancy, right?
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we've covered off on position
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with different flavors aligned to
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of those parts of the system.
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described to accomplish the sales
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and run as a cross functional
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love to hear your take and again,
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enablement, revenue enablement,
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look at it as exactly that a cross
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sales enablement title and definitely
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dotted line and maybe it's to a CRO
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who are like, yeah, I love enablement.
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whether they have a label or not.
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thoughts and where you were headed?
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function, the silos should be reorganized.
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and we should be thinking
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espouse massive reorganizations.
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say where is the value created?
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work cross functionally.
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in that when you do that.
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influence that you can wield.
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say, the gravitas to do that?
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things could be a lot better.
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what I've done is.
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the community, right?
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me on the things that I've put out.
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Orchestrate sales site, but if you
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speak of this we don't have it, right?
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things that we're talking about on
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Enablement Collective which have
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around more tactics and things like that.
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MBA around orchestration and
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material and a profession who's going
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spend the time, that investment.
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a lot of upside and a lot of possibility.
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been a tough pill to swallow that, that
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a lot of friction for them and
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their traditional siloed swim lanes.
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through and I know it's not comfortable.
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Brian through the lens of message.
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in your world view because.
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there's not a product market fit
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lucky right out there that truly want
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these more tactical approaches
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more what the market's hungry for.
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be relevant to maintain the job
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things meet is what you were alluding
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help me show my impact as a function.
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place where we have some traction.
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to get that foundational.
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charter that includes alignment with
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you're doing it right, metrics driven
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impact and then elevate and hopefully
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even if you have to start at talent.
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because it's outside of traditional roles.
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everybody else is saying.
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a little bit differently around what is
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are you helping and who are you serving?
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and do you view your job as, the nine
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salespeople, is it really about.
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you they want, or is it really
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organization, what it really needs?
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say they want and what they really need.
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enablers are not in the numbers.
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pipeline activity was and all that.
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view the same day-to-Day reports
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don't even have access in Salesforce.
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we're gonna actually, we need to
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do things differently.
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have you done sales training?
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the solutions at your company?
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getting a meeting with somebody?
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would rather should on people, you
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your adoption of things and let's
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good that we got people to show up.
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miss quota, get fired.
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dinner at sales kickoff when we show up.
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reality and what the role
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everybody has to do that.
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I've certainly had to do.
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deep into the orchestration
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and go and click deeper.
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of this commercial orchestrator.
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cross functional business than
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a bow around this whole thing.
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love to hear where it lands with you.
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looks like in how they, interact with
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to get that seat at the table in order
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of that through the lens of how
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frontline to be able to do the same.
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I've been able to, I have a seat with
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internally, to learn from what,
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Christopher Kingman was talking about,
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better understand how we do things as
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so that I can turn around and help my
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speak to those folks, and I'm modeling
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orchestration, and as the co founder,
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whether or not That, what you were
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that came up with this and Scott, I
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that I still have yet to tap into.
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and am I on to something there?
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an orchestrator, it's in the continuum
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organizations to eventually some sort of,
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look, in the late:
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of that, which eventually will become
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a digital economy and a digital era.
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lifetimes, it's been exponentially
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we didn't even have iPhones growing
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little, historical, a little zen,
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advancements like that there's upheaval.
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social unrest, civil unrest,
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repeatable patterns, you're going to
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are not keeping up with what's happening.
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revolution, they put kids in factories.
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with factories back then.
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is, If you look around at what we're
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systems or the business, systems those,
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elements are like the idea of how you
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from the industrial revolution.
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why is it so hard to get rid of them?
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them and you can't even function from
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launch perspective, et cetera.
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really don't need them.
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connected digital world
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there needs to be eventually a way
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don't become the organizing structure.
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ability to communicate value.
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ability to be productive.
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have a coherent conversation internally.
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that everybody looks the other way
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are so darn important,.
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a company, they become a new glue that
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mission to achieve outcomes and objectives
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that gets created on the fly
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critical for companies to figure
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are the first through the wall.
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dead, long live orchestration.
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blasphemy enablement is not the
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where what I'm seeing again, a lot of is.
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the lens of now I've got sales
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than sales ops and how I'm got
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enablement moves into a CRO,
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it's closer to there today.
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recast as the training.
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if you will of the sales org.
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there's 6 million pages right now.
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is going to largely be training
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and telling them what to do.
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sales kickoffs and new hire
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going to say it's not important.
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to, to the company and to the people in it
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because I've seen salespeople get
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then why do sales people get fired?
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I could also say that from marketing, I
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I could say that for sales operations.
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just picking on sales enablement.
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says they try to help sales.
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the way., we have to figure out how to be
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figure out how to provide services and
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a, path to, to more value.
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to step up, whether you're from
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can be filled and can thrive.