Interviewing for a sales job is no easy task. Your abilities of persuasion, communication, and relationship-building will be on full display (and under a microscope). And if you can’t sell yourself to the interviewer, how can you expect them to believe you can handle a sales position in their company. Yes, it’s high-pressure. But you…
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Always be Yourself in Your Business and Personal Life
Angelo Patri once wrote, “Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind.” Legendary Hollywood director, Sam Wood, said the greatest headache he has with aspiring young actors is exactly this problem: to make them be themselves. They all want to…
Nobody Wants a Counterfeit Coin
I noticed a Facebook status today that said “be a first-rate you rather than a second rate somebody else.” The quote made me smile, and I discovered that the 17-year old who posted this status had no idea that Dale Carnegie offered the same sage advice many years ago. In his book How to Stop…