The Problem Behind the Problem: How Great Sales Teams Build Trust, Gain Alignment and Forecast With Accuracy
John Simmons
Aug 2026 · BookRix
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Reveal the Problem. Align the Team. Win with Precision.
Every stalled deal, every lost negotiation, every prospect who went silent — the answer wasn't in your pitch. It was in the question you never asked.
The best revenue producers in the world know something their competitors don't: what your buyer tells you first is rarely what's actually driving their decision. The real problem lives one level deeper — more urgent, more costly, and more invisible than anything that surfaced in the first conversation. The salesperson who finds it wins every time. The sales leader who teaches it builds a team that's nearly impossible to beat.
The Problem Behind the Problem introduces the PBP Method — a diagnostic framework built on precision, clarity, and a repeatable process. For individual contributors, it's the operating system for every conversation — revealing what your buyer hasn't said and aligning your solution to the outcome they're actually accountable for. For sales leaders, it's a coaching framework and common language that compounds across every rep, every quarter.
This isn't a book about closing harder. It's about selling smarter — with the discipline of a trusted advisor who earns the business because they understood the problem better than the buyer did.
Stop guessing. Start diagnosing. The answer is already in the room.
Every stalled deal, every lost negotiation, every prospect who went silent — the answer wasn't in your pitch. It was in the question you never asked.
The best revenue producers in the world know something their competitors don't: what your buyer tells you first is rarely what's actually driving their decision. The real problem lives one level deeper — more urgent, more costly, and more invisible than anything that surfaced in the first conversation. The salesperson who finds it wins every time. The sales leader who teaches it builds a team that's nearly impossible to beat.
The Problem Behind the Problem introduces the PBP Method — a diagnostic framework built on precision, clarity, and a repeatable process. For individual contributors, it's the operating system for every conversation — revealing what your buyer hasn't said and aligning your solution to the outcome they're actually accountable for. For sales leaders, it's a coaching framework and common language that compounds across every rep, every quarter.
This isn't a book about closing harder. It's about selling smarter — with the discipline of a trusted advisor who earns the business because they understood the problem better than the buyer did.
Stop guessing. Start diagnosing. The answer is already in the room.
Reveal the Problem. Align the Team. Win with Precision.
Every stalled deal, every lost negotiation, every prospect who went silent — the answer wasn't in your pitch. It was in the question you never asked.
The best revenue producers in the world know something their competitors don't: what your...
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