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As students, they were good at winning gold stars, and so they follow a gold-star-winning kind of life when they enter the workforce, and their parents get to brag that they work at Google or Williams & Connolly, or that they go to Harvard Business School.
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
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Watching Paul work with the salespeople back in the office was an entirely different matter. Over the years, almost the entire salesforce had turned over, and the average tenure of a rep was now about 12 months. This made Paul somewhat cynical and arrogant when dealing with his sales counterparts. He said, “These new reps are just like the hamsters
... See moreJohn Care • The Trusted Advisor Sales Engineer
you have a sales professional making a cold call to try and create interest from scratch, in this day and age, you are a fool.
Dan Kennedy • No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits: No Holds Barred, Kick Butt, Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Really Getting Rich
Jack Welch once said of his role at General Electric, “Look, I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light.”
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
I often say I’m chairman of everything and the CEO of nothing. I stick to what I’m good at—vision, direction, strategy. That’s where I add the most value. I spend almost my entire day listening to other people. I ask questions, I probe, I raise possibilities
Sam Zell • Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel
