Categories: Differentiation | Sales Leadership | Sales Training Initiative | Unicorn Companies
Less than 1,600 companies have ever achieved Unicorn status, which means they achieved a $1B valuation benchmark without going public. While the number of Unicorns has tripled over the past six years, they remain incredibly rare—fewer than 1% of tech startups get there. The ones that reach Unicorn-level don’t just grow—they scale with precision through a go-to-market (GTM) strategy that elevates a great product into a market leader. At Force Management, we’ve partnered with over 140 of these elite companies. Across these engagements, three common strategies consistently emerge: cross-functional alignment on customer value, managers are equipped to coach, and executive buy-in that drives the initiative from the top down. Here’s a breakdown of how our Unicorn clients implemented these strategies:
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Categories: Sales Coaching Tools | Sales Leadership
What Is a Sales Role Play? Sales role play is a simulated sales conversation designed to prepare reps for real customer interactions. It allows salespeople to rehearse key parts of the conversation (like discovery, objection handling, or negotiation) before stepping into a live selling situation. Role playing helps identify gaps in preparation, test out messaging, and gain feedback in a risk-free setting. When implemented correctly, it's one of the most powerful tools for improving sales execution, confidence, and agility.
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Categories: MEDDICC | Sales Process
Any successful sales organization relies on a structured qualification process to guide its efforts. Qualification isn’t just about saying “yes” or “no”—it’s about asking the right questions early on, aligning with the buyer’s needs, and ensuring every deal in your pipeline truly warrants your team’s time and attention. This guide will break down what sales qualification process means, why it’s essential for both buyers and sellers, and how to build a repeatable framework that drives efficiency and revenue.
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Categories: Podcasts
Hear tangible leadership takeaways from pioneers across industries and professions. In each June episode, John McMahon and John Kaplan brought dynamic guests to share insights on how successful sales leaders elevate their approach to culture, metrics, technology and leadership. Tune in to listen to stories of iteration and evolution, failure and success from seasoned sales leaders at some of the most innovative companies of our time. We publish two episodes per week, sharing lessons for sales leaders at all stages of their careers. Make sure to subscribe to the Revenue Builders Podcast on your favorite podcast player, so you never miss an episode.
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Categories: Sales Leadership | Sales Productivity | Sales Training Initiative
The B2B tech marketplace operates at a lightning-fast pace. The companies that stay ahead of the competition do so by maintaining momentum even through internal changes their leaders make to keep up with the times. The question becomes: how can revenue teams adapt and evolve without disrupting the bottom line?
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Categories: Artificial Intelligence | Sales Leadership
Great sales leaders know how to make the number, but the ability to do that consistently requires more than just great sales skills. The best revenue leaders understand the critical need to equip individuals with the proper tools for revenue success and drive organizational outcomes. A great sales leader understands the importance of a structured sales discipline while reinforcing methodologies that drive measurable results. Veteran Sales Leader and Current Shopify Chief Revenue Officer Bobby Morrison recently joined the Revenue Builders podcast with John Kaplan and John McMahon to talk through his lessons learned and his blueprint for great sales leadership. Morrison knows how to grow and scale companies; from his sales leadership roles at Verizon, where his leadership helped drive $8.3B in revenue, and at Microsoft, where his segment increased revenue from $15B to $25B. Now, at Shopify, he’s led their shift upmarket to an aggressive 30% revenue growth rate in Q1 of this year.
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