Brian Shea
The Top Strategic Business Priorities Being Measured by BOTH CEOs and CFOs.
Know Thy Buyer (and their business)!!! The #LucrumPartners team continues to hear how often B2B sellers are encountering CFOs as key...
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Brian Shea
- Jul 25
- 2 min
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...
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Brian Shea
- Jul 11
- 2 min
"We've been managing the wrong sales metrics........"
In a recent revenue engine maturity workshop, or simply put, the "why aren't we scaling?" session, the infographic below served as the...
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Brian Shea
- Jun 29
- 3 min
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...
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Brian Shea
- May 30
- 2 min
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....
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Brian Shea
- May 15
- 2 min
Gartner: The Future is Bright for Revenue Enablement But Not for Traditional "Sales Management"
Warning: The following will raise the blood pressure of heads of sales. Gartner recently stated that by 2026, 60% of enablement functions...
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Brian Shea
- May 9
- 3 min
Can Private Equity Port Co's Be Like Mike?
Some of us remember August 1991 debut of the "Be Like Mike" campaign. It was created by Gatorade, it featured a memorable jingle, and...
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Brian Shea
- May 1
- 3 min
Dear CEOs, if you want a rainmaker, invest in a sprinkler system not a CRO
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...
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Brian Shea
- May 1
- 2 min
Private Equity Managers Shouldn't Pay for Last Seasons Performance
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...
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Brian Shea
- Apr 27
- 2 min
Has Private Equity shifted from a rocking market to rocky market?
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...
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