Most sales books teach what to do. This one teaches how to think. The Sales Performance Code extends the Alignment Factor philosophy into sales performance, coaching, customer value, and revenue execution — giving salespeople, sales leaders, and founders a diagnostic operating system rather than another checklist.
The core framework is the Sales Alignment Factor: the idea that sales performance is not built on skill alone. A salesperson can have strong technique and still struggle if they are chasing the wrong customer, presenting too early, failing to connect value to urgency, or losing momentum through poor follow-through.
Allen draws on 30+ years of workforce strategy and organizational leadership, applying the same systematic alignment thinking that powers the Alignment Masters body of work — now focused on the specific challenges of salespeople, sales leaders, and founders who want to improve diagnosis, strategy, customer alignment, and execution discipline.
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Why This Book Exists — from mechanics to strategic diagnosis
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The Sales Alignment Process — a diagnostic operating system
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How to Use This Book — active reading as a field guide
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Sales Has Changed, but Trust Still Wins
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The Sales Alignment Factor — activity vs. progress
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The Sales Alignment Formula — Skill × Strategy × Alignment × Execution
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Mindset Before Method — resilience, framing, and discipline
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Planning Is a Sales Skill — preparation as a competitive edge
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Customer Alignment — problem, value, timing, and outcome
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Discovery as Diagnosis — reading signals, not just stages
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Gap Analysis in Sales — where alignment breaks down
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Root Cause Analysis for Sales Problems
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SWOT as a Sales Tool — strategic account analysis
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Value Must Be Financially Viable
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Healthcare Sales — vertical applications and trust
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Life Insurance Sales — family protection and resilience
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Coaching as Sales Alignment — helping sellers improve
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Quartile Performance Analysis — top-performer benchmarks
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Matching Talent to Sales Complexity
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When Sales Becomes Difficult — staying disciplined
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Turning a Bad Sales Experience Around
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Execution and Follow-Through — the alignment closer
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Results Alignment — connecting activity to outcome
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Your Personal Sales Operating System
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Allen Larsen
Founder of LearnSync · Author, Alignment Masters
Allen Larsen has spent three decades at the intersection of workforce strategy and organizational leadership. As founder of LearnSync, he built a Workforce Readiness Intelligence Platform serving enterprise L&D leaders — and developed the Alignment Framework that underpins every title in the Alignment Masters body of work. The Sales Performance Code applies that same systematic, diagnostic thinking to the challenges of salespeople, sales leaders, and founders who want to move beyond technique into strategic, repeatable performance.
