Includes index.

Introduction -- The role of the sales manager -- Build a great sales team -- Selecting champions -- Start them off right -- Manage by sales objectives -- The psychology of sales success -- Practice the performance formula -- Improve your leadership style -- Reward sales performance -- Develop winning salespeople -- Plan sales activities -- Satisfy salespeople's basic needs -- The 80/20 rule in sales management -- Use the canei method -- Brainstorming for sales improvements -- Discipline salespeople effectively -- Let your poor performers go -- Lead by example -- The control valve on performance -- Four keys to building salespeople -- Courage, the vital quality of success.