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How to build a go-to-market motion where every stage has a named owner and a response expectation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written for<\/strong> Leadership teams where effort is high, coordination is low, and marketing gets blamed for both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottleneck<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When pipeline is weak, the reflex is to add activity. More outreach, more content, more campaigns. If no stage has an owner, more activity produces more unowned activity and the cost rises without the outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The diagnostic question is not what are we doing. It is who owns the moment a prospect moves from stage two to stage three, and what happens if they do not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why it happens, five levels down<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Pipeline is weak despite visible effort.<\/strong>Why? Work is uncoordinated across roles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Handoffs are informal.<\/strong>Why? Stages were never defined.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. No one defined the stages.<\/strong>Why? The motion grew rather than being designed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. It grew because early sales were founder-led.<\/strong>Why? What one person holds in their head does not need documenting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. The process still lives in one person’s head.<\/strong>Root cause. It cannot scale, delegate or be measured until it is written down.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The diagnostic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Run this before planning any work. It tells you whether this is your constraint or whether something else is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n