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Rebel Rebel Resilience: Bowie’s Blueprint for Thriving Under Pressure
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David Bowie’s fearless reinvention inspires sales leaders and teams to thrive under pressure. Betrayed by manager Tony Defries and stuck in a post-Let’s Dance slump, Bowie pivoted with
Apple’s Call Screening: A Game-Changer for Smarter Prospecting in Sales & PR
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Apple’s iOS 26 call screening feature, requiring callers to state their name and purpose before the phone rings, is reshaping cold calling. With over half of Australia using iPhones, this
Why Manners & Courtesy Remain Vital in Today’s Individualistic World
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In a business world that often rewards a "cut-throat" ethos, the deliberate practice of manners remains a vital strategy for building sustainable success. True courtesy goes beyond pleasantries;
Starman Collaboration: Finding Magic in Togetherness the Bowie Way
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Welcome to the first article in our Rebel Rebel series exploring how to lead, sell, co-create and collaborate the Bowie way. When one of our tech security clients won a multimillion-dollar
Looking Beyond “Can I Help You?” – The True Purpose of Retail Sales
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Retail done right is not about pushing products — it’s about helping people. When we approach customers with genuine curiosity, purposeful care, and acknowledgment, we build trust and
Coaching vs Policing: Leading B2C & B2B Sales Teams to Mastery
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Coached sales teams consistently outperform policed ones by 10–20%. Why? Because coaching fosters confidence, critical thinking, and meaningful client engagement—whereas policing drives
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Barrett Sales Trends
Barrett Sales Trends Report 2024
This business and sales trends report is dedicated to unfurling 'mythical truths', that have constrained business thinking. It's not one thing OR the other. The best results come from ...
Barrett Sales Trends Report 2023
We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most consequential transformation of human civilization in history.
Being human-centred is about putting humanity back on the corporate ...
Barrett Sales Trends Report 2022
The first issue of the Barrett 12 Sales Trends Report was published in December 2009. It was titled ‘12 Sales Trends for 2010: No more “Business as usual”’. Sales trend 10 in ...
Barrett Sales Trends Report 2021
2020 has been one of the most trying year for many generations and we can’t wait for it to finish. We are over it and impatient for a sense of control, some degree of certainty, something ...
Barrett Sales Trends Report 2020
Businesses, governments, industry bodies and the global business community have been talking for decades about making changes and taking action to address climate change, reduce the ...
Barrett Sales Trends Report 2019
Trust is a vital element in our lives and, as such, it has been studied and debated for centuries. Trust is the belief that someone or something is honest and will not harm you, or ...
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Barrett Whitepaper: The History of Sales Methodologies - Why Some Work and Others Don’t
Every once in a while a new book on sales and selling appears in the stores that lays claim to contain the secret to sales challenges. Many of these books promote themselves as being ...
Barrett Whitepaper: Should selling be studied at degree level at University?
There has been no officially recognized benchmark for professional salespeople at tertiary level. Finance, Marketing, Production, Engineering, Business Administration, IT, Research ...