One of the traps in sales training and sales performance is that there's always been a focus on new tips, tricks, and shortcuts. If you go to LinkedIn, you quickly lose count of all the sales and growth hacks—which always sound soooo easy. The truth is, that even with shortcuts, you’ve got to get through the ugly middle. (If you don’t know what that means, watch The Shawshank Redemption, where they crawl through a half-mile of sewage in search of freedom.) If you came to this blog thinking I...