By Lucrum Partners If you’re a CEO running a fast-moving, high-aspiration company, 2025’s B2B thought leadership events made one thing...

By Lucrum Partners The latest Gartner research on the DNA of top sales organizations highlights a fundamental shift in how leading...

Win rates for closed-won deals have dropped 22% year over year, while a recent SBI Growth report reveals that nearly two-thirds of CEOs lack confidence in their teams’ ability to execute growth strategies. These challenges highlight the urgent need to prioritize sales effectiveness—not as a buzzword but as a strategic mandate. At Lucrum Partners, our analysis consistently points to recurring obstacles: misaligned talent strategies, unclear go-to-market (GTM) growth approac

67 percent of professionals believe they fall short in persuading executives to make immediate purchase decisions

With 45,000 open roles for senior revenue leaders, why is there such a high turnover for these executive roles?

Nearly two-thirds of CEOs did not have confidence in their teams' ability to execute the company's 2024 growth strategy. Why make it harder?

by Lucrum Partners The dreaded annual new sales budget process. The #CFO introduces the #GTM team with the following year growth targets...

In today's dynamic business landscape, crafting a robust go-to-market (GTM) strategy is paramount for the success of any company. As CEOs...

As a #founder-led CEO, you've likely navigated numerous challenges in building and scaling your company. One pivotal moment arrives when...

Scalable go-to-market (GTM) processes are strategies and frameworks designed to efficiently and effectively bring products or services to...

Don't shoot the messenger. Our 2024 prediction for executive teams is to expect even more sales pipeline turbulence caused by increasing...

"No Pain, No Gain" I don't believe that phrase came out of pipeline review or forecasting meetings. But perhaps it should have. Sales...

We all remember the Tupperware "Shape-O" toy. It was a round puzzle that taught young children how to fit the right blocks into the right...

In a recent revenue engine maturity workshop, or simply put, the "why aren't we scaling?" session, the infographic below served as the...

LucrumPartners.co was founded on a single principle. Most emerging growth and founder led B2B firms don't have a playbook to effectively...

NFL teams spend approximately 3-5% of their revenue in the form of research and development. The NFL R&D is their scouting departments....

Some of us remember August 1991 debut of the "Be Like Mike" campaign. It was created by Gatorade, it featured a memorable jingle, and...

Early stage CEOs make a strategic error when they hire a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) too early. CRO's are a common executive function in...

If you're a sports fan, you can likely remember a sports team who traded for or signed a high priced free agent star athlete. The...

It's April 2023 and Anne Sraders from Fortune's Term Sheet just published "Private equity had a pretty resilient Q1, but the ‘risk is...