Today’s guest is a researcher, author, podcast host, strategist nerd, leader, problem solver, and  public speaker. Dr. Jim Kanichirayil is the Talent Strategy Transformation Evangelist at Circa, the Co-host of Cascading Leadership Podcast, and the Co-host of the Talent Strategy 60 Live show. Dr. Jim shares why marketers need to be allowed to be the voice of the customer, why you need to empower junior marketers to innovate, and how marketing should handle sales. Busted Myths:Marketing does not exist to serve sales. Marketing is the voice of the customer. While marketing should operate to some degree as an arm of sales enablement, its focus should be on listening to what customers say.  Takeaways:Because organizations don’t allow their marketing teams to fully realize and execute on the customer voice, marketers are required to spend so much time and effort trying to justify their position and new initiatives. Organizations get too focused on finding the fastest way to execute something and find a result rather than trying to find the right way to do something that will also provide the best results. Focusing on speed means great opportunities are passed by and wasted.Leaders at the executive level don’t have a tactical understanding of what’s required from sales and marketing throughout the buyer journey. This is why workers on the front lines of sales and marketing need to have the power to innovate.Sales would never pass up a chance to get in front of decision-makers that fit their ICP, but they start disagreeing with marketing when it comes to the question of how they get to that point. Sales has been conditioned to chase the 3% of the market that’s in an active buy cycle, however, if Sales is unaware of that 3% before they entered the active buy cycle, they’re behind. At that point, you’re selling a commodity and you’ll be competing on price. AI is making major advancements and tools like Chat GPT entering the marketplace are going to absolutely obliterate modern selling. The way we sell now is not going to exist 24 months from now. Personalize your outreach!Tools like Chat GPT will bring automation to many of the task-oriented roles throughout every function within enterprise-level companies. For example, there aren’t many open positions for switchboard operators on Indeed. Quote of the Show:“Organizations, in general, aren't allowing their marketing teams to actually run and fully realize and, and execute on the customer voice.” - Jim Kanichirayil  Shout Outs:Tanya Thompson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyathompson1/ Tanya Thompsons’ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@search_tanya  Links:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjimk/ Cascading Leadership Website: https://www.cascadingleadership.com/ Cascading Leadership YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6qAx0CkGalK1SIjOVAXrfQ Cascading Leadership TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cascadingleadership Circa website: https://circaworks.com/ Cascading Leadership Podcast: https://cascadingleadership.buzzsprout.com/  Ways to Tune In:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hard-corps-marketing-show/id1338838763Amazon Music/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/37228621-2f9c-4905-a223-1844effb49ddSpotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/1vVLpNI1LssMTiL6KdsamnStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-hard-corps-marketing-showGoogle Podcasts: https://play.google.com/music/m/Im7mytmu2wa2mekhoeixlja5hpe?t=The_Hard_Corps_Marketing_ShowYouTube: https://youtu.be/uCMl9XIEhYM  Hard Corps Marketing is produced and sponsored by Ringmaster, on a mission to create connections through B2B podcasts. Learn more at https://ringmaster.com/