Sales and marketing teams might think they're helping their company grow. What they don't realize, however, is that in many cases, they unknowingly do the opposite.
"Sales is expected to be the main growth driver within a firm, but more often than not sales acts as a growth brake," says Guido Quelle, author of Profitable Growth: Release Internal Growth Brakes and Bring Your Company to the Next Level.
The same applies to marketing, he says. Each does things that prevent company growth. These four practices, in particular, negatively affect companies: