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Brian Borowsky
Brian Borowsky

Sales and growth expert with lived experience doing the stuff.

Leading at the Edge of Chaos

Sep 30, 2026

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2 min read

Leading at the Edge of Chaos

You can't project-manage your way through a culture change. If you treat complex transformation like a simple checklist, you're setting your team up to fail. Let's go.

Brian Borowsky
Brian Borowsky
Stop Starting Your Pitch with "About Us"

Sep 16, 2026

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2 min read

Stop Starting Your Pitch with "About Us"

Your buyers don't care what year your company was founded or how many global offices you have. If your sales presentation starts with a corporate history lesson, you've already lost the room. Let's go.

Brian Borowsky
Brian Borowsky
The Fear of Discussing Price

Sep 2, 2026

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2 min read

The Fear of Discussing Price

Hiding your price until the last minute doesn't build value; it just builds frustration. Stop treating your commercial reality like a dirty secret. Let's go.

Brian Borowsky
Brian Borowsky
Why your "perfect" ROI case is being ignored.

Aug 19, 2026

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3 min read

Why your "perfect" ROI case is being ignored.

I recently worked with a client who had spent weeks quantifying the exact financial impact of their solution. They had the revenue increases, the cost savings, and a rock-solid ROI. On paper, it was an undeniable win. Yet, the prospect's response was total silence.

Brian Borowsky
Brian Borowsky
Strong Convictions, Lightly Held

Aug 5, 2026

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2 min read

Strong Convictions, Lightly Held

It’s tempting to wait for perfect data before making a strategic move, but transformation doesn't wait for certainty. If you demand a flawless forecast before you act, you're not leading—you're just stalling. Let's go.

Brian Borowsky
Brian Borowsky
Value is a team sport

Jul 22, 2026

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2 min read

Value is a team sport

Your sales team just spent three months positioning your unique impact. They held the line on margin, sold the strategy, and secured the Win. But as soon as the implementation team arrives, the value starts to erode. A technical expert suggests a "free" customization. A solution architect includes something that was previously out of scope. The reality of high-growth B2B is that Value is a team sport. If your technical, marketing, and service teams do not have the same Commercial Acumen as your sales team, you are leaking profit at every touchpoint. To win in a tightening market, you need a Value focus across the whole organisation.Let's go.

Brian Borowsky
Brian Borowsky
Why the "Best Solution" still loses.

Jul 8, 2026

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3 min read

Why the "Best Solution" still loses.

It is one of the most frustrating sentences in sales: "You had the best solution, but we couldn't make the numbers work." We have all been there: when the proposal hits the CFO's desk, it dies.The reality of modern B2B selling is that technical excellence is no longer enough to win. Procurement departments and professional purchasers do not buy features: they buy financial performance and risk mitigation. If you don't translate your technical superiority into a rock-solid business case, you aren't creating value across the business.Let's go.

Brian Borowsky
Brian Borowsky
How to maximise your ‘Hidden Value’

Jun 24, 2026

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3 min read

How to maximise your ‘Hidden Value’

Most sales conversations are stuck on the ‘Top 3’ criteria everyone expects: price, speed, and reliability. But the real deals, the ones with the highest margins, are often won on a fourth or fifth criteria that the customer has not even realised is important yet. I call this your ‘Hidden Value,’ and it is your best weapon against a "no-decision" deadlock. Let's go.

Brian Borowsky
Brian Borowsky
Why Most B2B Cross-Selling Fails (and how to fix it)

Jun 10, 2026

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2 min read

Why Most B2B Cross-Selling Fails (and how to fix it)

Cross-selling has never fallen out of favour in B2B sales, but it’s undeniably having a moment. In an era of tighter margins and slower new-business pipelines, organisations are finally asking a harder question: why aren’t we capturing more value from the clients we already have?The answer, frustratingly, has remained the same for years: the wrong capabilities, the wrong incentives, and the wrong tracking. It costs far less to grow revenue from existing clients than to acquire new ones, yet performance is consistently underwhelming. Let's go.

Brian Borowsky
Brian Borowsky

The Growth Hive - ideas on sales and business growth

A series of thoughts about stories, ideas, frameworks, and recommendations, to help you tackle B2B sales growth, business growth and your own personal growth challenges.

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