I am, by nature, a realist optimist who looks at what we can do, how we can make things better and so on. But I don’t do things on a…
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How those who shame others for selling themselves are the biggest losers Let’s begin with a story about an excellent scientist. Someone so passionate and competent about his subject area…
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I like to keep on top of what is current, what is emerging, and what is still an idea. This is why I make time each week to do research…
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Everybody lives by selling something and so it is true for the banks and financial services businesses; however, it seems that too many people in some divisions of some of…
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Sales Trend 11 from Barrett’s 12 Sales Trends for 2017 Report is about Procurement. Guest author Ben Shute, CEO of Comprara, shares his insights. It was 1999 when De Vincentis…
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Steven Levitt, the co-author of Freakonomics, SuperFreakonomics, Think like a Freak and When to Rob a Bank, defines thinking like a freak as: “…putting away your moral compass and not…
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In the classic Bill Murray movie Caddyshack, he tries in vain to catch a gopher (rodent) ruining the golf course. Eventually, it occurs to him that “in order to catch…
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Sales Trend 10 from Barrett’s 12 Sales trends Report for 2017 is about the relation between personal branding and social selling. It is an interesting fact that the ‘extraordinary’ of…
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In October 1983, I found myself in the clinical room of a middle aged medical doctor whom I was meeting for the first time. I was not a patient, I…
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How many times have we all been tempted to click on a link that offers us ‘the secret of sales success’ only to find a website or article that is…
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