Founders Ramp
All of the approach

Books

Books that are fundamental

The books that sit under how we work.

Extreme Ownership cover

Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

Extreme Ownership

Credit the team when it works. Own the miss as the leader. Success is we. Failure is I.

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Eat Their Lunch cover

Anthony Iannarino

Eat Their Lunch

How you take a deal that already has a vendor, without trashing them in the room.

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Never Split the Difference cover

Chris Voss with Tahl Raz

Never Split the Difference

Stay curious. Get them talking. Do not argue them into a yes.

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High-Profit Prospecting cover

Mark Hunter

High-Profit Prospecting

The conversations only count if they are with people who can buy.

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The Challenger Sale cover

Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson

The Challenger Sale

Teach them something about their own problem. Then the product has a place.

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Jason Jordan & Michelle Vazzana

Cracking the Sales Management Code

You inspect the work, not the story the seller tells about the work.

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Selling to the Very Important Top Officer cover

Anthony Parinello

Selling to the Very Important Top Officer

Get to the person who owns the number. Everyone else is a tour.

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Mega Deal Secrets cover

Jamal Reimer

Mega Deal Secrets

How a late, multi-threaded deal actually gets papered.

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The One Minute Manager cover

Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson

The One Minute Manager

Goals on one page. Praise and correct the behavior, soon, specifically.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People cover

Stephen Covey

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Circles of influence and control. Work where you can act.

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MEDDIC

Dick Dunkel & Jack Napoli, PTC, ~1996

MEDDIC / MEDDPICC

The map for a late enterprise deal. Not how you qualify a founder whose competitor is building it themselves.

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In the works

Justin Weller

Unreleased title

A book in the works on the job nobody trains: the founder or first manager who still has to sell.

The lesson