- June 16, 2026
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Categories: Analogies, Baseball and Sales, Best Top 10 Lists, Sales Pipeline and Forecast, Sales Process, Understanding the Sales Force
Most CEOs prioritize EBITDA over every other metric but what happens when EBITDA falls short of the goal?
If it’s important enough, they focus on cutting costs or growing revenue and sometimes, both.
Some CEOs worked their way up through sales and sales leadership and know which levers to pull to grow revenue.
But what about the CEOs who didn’t come up through sales? What do former operations, tech, finance, manufacturing, engineering, and marketing execs do when they don’t know what they don’t know about sales? When they don’t know exactly what sales leadership, sales management and even sales should really be doing? To grow quality pipeline? To deliver accurate forecasts? To grow the top line without sacrificing the bottom line? To solve delayed closings? To fix the win rate?
Those CEOs turn to Kurlan & Associates.
I combed through 2,100 of my articles on sales, selling, sales leadership, sales teams, Sales DNA, sales process and methodology, sales management, coaching, pipeline and forecasts, mindset, sales science and assessments, and identified the articles written specifically to help revenue-minded CEOs set proper expectations, hold sales leadership accountable, make appropriate decisions, and pull the appropriate levers accomplish the goal.
You might find that these 30+ articles were written just for you.
10 Questions Every CEO Must Answer to Increase Revenue Today
What CEOs Are Missing In Their Attempts to Grow Revenue
A CEO’s Guide to the Differences in Sales Leadership Roles
10 Attributes of the CEO Who Drives Sales and More
Why CEOs/Presidents Tolerate Ineffective Sales Management
Top 10 CEO Reactions to my Comments About Their Sales Forces
Presidents & CEO’s: 4 out of 5 Sales Managers are Ineffective!
The Sales Conversation CEO’s & Sales VP’s Must Have with HR
How to Use Baseball’s xBA Metric to Measure Your Sales Pipeline and Improve Your Sales Forecasts
Revolutionizing Sales Forecasting with a Baseball Twist
Sales Cholesterol Reveals If Your Sales Pipeline Is Clogged (And How to Fix It)
Use Sales Scorecards Because People are Fickle
The CEO Who Needed to Hire Salespeople
Sales – #1 on the CEO’s Agenda
CEO Alert – What’s Wrong with Your Sales Management Team
25 Factors Indicative of a Strong Sales Culture
Attention C-Suite! Revenue by Salesperson is Faulty Data
Why 72% of Sales Reps Miss Quota: The Participation Trophy PTSD in the C-Suite
The Golf to Sales Analogy: When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
What Companies Don’t Know About Sales
Can Malcom Gladwell Explain the Sales Hiring Problem?
Big Company Strategies That SMB Sales Teams Can Emulate
How Most Teams Get Sales Team Structure Wrong
Why I Believe We Should Blow Up the BDR Role
7-Steps to Achieve Sales Team Excellence
Expectations, Revisions, and Excuses on the Sales Team
Why Sales Transformation Achieves Better Results Than Sales Training Alone
Top 13 Reasons You Lose Sales to the Competition and What to Do About it
