A friend who works in sales just sent me a PowerPoint Presentation of a reputable training company in the field of sales titled just like above. It was a rather plain sales brochure trying to create awareness of their services.
The problems as resulted [...]
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There was once a medical rep that came to his colleagues and proposed to play a football game against (possibly) their biggest competitor. In a macho style atmosphere (they knew nothing about football capabilities of the others) the majority of his colleagues subscribed [...]
This is probably a question that should not be missed in any job interview for a managerial position. I do not like too much superlatives in supporting a point of view so I would resist stating that setting appropriate targets is the most important skill of all in a managerial [...]
Hardly imaginable 3-4 years ago, the community of medical representatives in Romania is shaken with an increasing pace by word-of-mouth news about massive layoffs in different pharmaceutical companies, restructuring (read downsizing if not closing) of some operations, hire freezes and so on. Mergers and acquisitions are now viewed with a [...]
It is said that Albert Einstein had hung in his office a poster that mentioned: “Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts”. Although this seems rather easy to understand it is often overlooked by business managers in their quest to prove [...]
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