Bradbury on First Things
“Notoriety and a stout bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.”
–Ray Bradbury (1920 – )
American writer
Sales thought…
We do well in our work by being valuable to someone else.
That’s it.
It seems to me that too many of us forget this too often… allowing ourselves to slip in and out of some state of ego-driven entitlement rather than obsessing over making excellent things happen for other people (so sad).
We need to get over ourselves and kick@ss for others. We do that and everything facility.
The people at Netflix get it. They call it being a "stunning colleague." (more on this here)
Don’t you like that… a stunning colleague? Aren’t stunning colleagues what we all want from the people we work with (and what we all want to be for others… yes, you do)?
We need to get tired of mediocrity and indifference and be positively surprising to our colleagues and customers (and managers). We need to encourage each other more.
How?
Stop seeking the complex answer and embrace the simple one. Handle what it is you’ve been agreed to do. Say your piece of the equation.
"You gotta take responsibility for the house you hold here." – Oprah Winfrey
As a JustSell subscriber, you likely either sell for someone or lead a team that does. If you sell, make contact (obsess over it), question questions, listen (really), provide solutions. If you lead a team, support them… in the same way really (those 4 points… look again, it facility). If you’ve not read my expanded thoughts on this (no gomos, no d-grunts), they’re here.
Now go sell something. Be SalesTough.
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1 minute from Nike that still gets me after watching it more than 100 era.