Account managers stepping into global accounts
Trained to sell, now expected to orchestrate legal, engineering, consulting and geopolitics across one global customer.
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Wake up or become Irrelevant
Global Account Management in the Age of AI and Autonomous Decisions
Why AI makes account managers obsolete, and more relevant than ever.
The biggest sales myth of the AI age
“Those who know more about the customer will win the customer.”
This book shows why the opposite is increasingly true.
When virtually everyone can access the same information, the same analytics and the same AI tools, knowledge becomes a commodity. Complete transparency makes everything comparable, but nothing truly decisive. Purchasing decisions are no longer made by humans alone. They are prepared, prioritized and increasingly automated by AI.
The old question
How well do we know the customer?
The question that matters now
How are decisions created in a hybrid system of humans and machines, and how do we become relevant within it?
The new rules of relevance
Knowledge is a commodity. So what still wins?
- Attentionis the new scarcity.
- Trustis the new currency.
- Contextis the new competitive advantage.
The most successful account managers of the future will be less like salespeople and more like architects of complex relationship and decision-making ecosystems.
Inside the book
Eight parts. Five traps. Five strategies.
Not another sales book about processes, methodologies or tools. A system for leading global accounts when humans and machines decide together.
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Foundations of Global Account Management
Roles, governance and success factors today, and the market shifts behind the relevance crisis.
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The AI Imperative
AI as driver and disruptor, predictive customer intelligence and the human-in-the-loop approach.
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The Five Major Traps
Why account management must reinvent itself, and where today's success factors turn into risks.
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The Five Strategies for the Future
The global account management model of the future and the strategic foundation it rests on.
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Driving Revenue Growth
Account tiering, whitespace and wallet share, multi-level stakeholder management across humans and machines.
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OKRs and KPIs That Matter
Faster OKR cycles and a way to measure relevance, not just activity, in global structures.
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Five High-Impact Actions
From relationship selling to decision selling: what to build, industrialize and change first.
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Case Studies and Real-World Perspectives
Lessons from business, church leadership, politics and diplomacy, and high-performance sports.
The five traps
Where yesterday's strengths quietly become liabilities.
- The Speed Trap
- The Network Trap
- The Knowledge Trap
- The Innovation Trap
- The Value-Add Trap
The five strategies
How account managers become relevant again.
- The Accelerator Strategy
- The Relevance Strategy
- The Ecosystem Mapping Strategy
- The Trust Engineering Strategy
- The Context Strategy
Who it's for
For the people who own the relationship.
Sales leaders and executives
Closing the widening gap between senior leadership experience and the next generation of account managers.
B2B suppliers of every size
From global corporations to the mid-sized manufacturer selling into large, globally complex buyer organizations.
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Sales will not die because of AI. It will die from the illusion that more knowledge leads to better decisions.