“we wrote a sequel of the Challenger sale called The Challenger customer”
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The Challenger Customer
By Brent Adamson, Matt Dixon, Pat Spenner and Nick Toman
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“there was a companion book to that called The Challenger Customer. Those were also excellent and based on a deep set of research”
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