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The Salesperson’s Number One Challenge

Richard Israel

Just about every sales book crowding the shelves of book stores, libraries or sitting on sales manager’s desks cover the same topics: setting sales goals, copying with rejection, cold calling, closing sales, follow ups, time management, beating competition and so on. Most sales people during the course of their careers have read at least one of those books or attended a sales workshop on these very subjects.

So why are so few of these insightful techniques actually applied? Continue reading

Creative Infidelity

Donna Kim-Brand

Popular topic these days, infidelity; and no, I’m not going to give you ’50 Creative Ways to Leave Your Spouse’. What I’m referring to here is a dynamic based on a new niche in psychology referred to as memetics, as popularized in Richard Brodie’s book Virus of the Mind. He defines a ‘meme’ as an idea, or unit of information, in one person’s mind that self-replicates, or spreads to other minds virally. They are internal representations of knowledge, or views on how we see the world, that result in outward effects on the world. Continue reading