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The Mid-Year CEO Checklist: How David-Sized Firms Stay Ahead of Goliaths in 2025
CEOs of B2B growth firms face a critical window.
Markets are shifting. Buyers are changing. And strategies built in January may already be stale.
The most agile firms—David-sized companies operating with insight and precision—are using this mid-year checkpoint to adjust before Q3. And they’re doing it faster and smarter than their Goliath competitors.
At Lucrum Partners, we’ve synthesized the latest thinking from Gartner, Forrester, Corporate Visions, and SBI Growth
Brian Shea
Jun 22 min read
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Why Your Sales Team is Stuck - And How to Fix It for Scalable Growth
By Lucrum Partners The latest Gartner research on the DNA of top sales organizations highlights a fundamental shift in how leading...
Brian Shea
Mar 193 min read
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Understanding the High Turnover in Executive Sales and Revenue Roles
With 45,000 open roles for senior revenue leaders, why is there such a high turnover for these executive roles?
Brian Shea
Jun 10, 20242 min read
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Why Your Next Sales Leader Must Be Analytics-Driven: Insights for Founder-Led CEOs
As a #founder-led CEO, you've likely navigated numerous challenges in building and scaling your company. One pivotal moment arrives when...
Brian Shea
Feb 26, 20242 min read
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Expired Hiring Processes are Worse Than Drinking Expired Milk
#Geico has an amusing commercial titled "Aunt Infestation". Aunt Bonnie arrives and beings rummaging through the refrigerator yelling...
Brian Shea
Jan 25, 20243 min read
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Future-proofing Your Business: Revenue Enabled Leadership a MUST for Founder-led CEOs in 2024
Creating a repeatable, winning revenue generating formula for B2B marketplaces is incredible hard for founder-led CEOs. In just the past...
Brian Shea
Dec 12, 20234 min read
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Does Your CEO's Talent Strategy Deliver "Next Man (or Woman) Up?
On September 23rd, 2001, the NFL changed forever. With 5:03 remaining in the game, the Patriots starting quarterback Drew Bledsoe was...
Brian Shea
Sep 12, 20233 min read
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Too many sales leaders have forgotten this childhood lesson
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...
Brian Shea
Jul 25, 20232 min read
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Understanding the Spaghetti Bowl of Modern B2B Selling
LucrumPartners.co was founded on a single principle. Most emerging growth and founder led B2B firms don't have a playbook to effectively...
Brian Shea
Jun 29, 20233 min read
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Why Emerging Growth CEOs Need Andy Reid's Game Planning
NFL teams spend approximately 3-5% of their revenue in the form of research and development. The NFL R&D is their scouting departments....
Brian Shea
May 30, 20232 min read
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Should CEOs Hire a Chief Revenue Officer Who Executes or Builds?
According to Salary.com, Glassdoor.com and Indeed.com, the average salary for a Chief Revenue Officer hovers around $235,000 - $250,000...
Brian Shea
Apr 14, 20233 min read
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CEO's Should Not Hire A Chief Revenue Officer (until.........)
In emerging growth B2B firms, CEOs, and often the other senior leadership team members, wear multiple hats including "sales leader". In...
Brian Shea
Apr 6, 20232 min read
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