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  • This is why STORYTELLING is still an ART

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Blink

    “We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for.”

  • Without this component decision making is incomplete

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Blink

    “The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”

  • This is OPTIMISM!!

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek

    “Optimism is the ability to focus on where we are going, not where we are coming from”

  • This is the truth about INSPIRATION

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek

    “The more people you inspire , the more people will inspire you”

  • The biggest TRUTH about a PLAN

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek

    “Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan”

  • This is what Sales and Theater have in common

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book To Sell is Human

    “Sales and theater have much in common. Both take guts. Salespeople pick up the phone and call strangers; actors walk onto the stage in front of them. Both invite rejection—for salespeople, slammed doors, ignored calls, and a pile of nos; for actors, a failed audition, an unresponsive audience, a scathing review. And both have evolved along comparable trajectories.”

  • Our school education acts as a deterrent towards creating good SalesPeople , this is why

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book To Sell is Human

    “In the new world of sales, being able to ask the right questions is more valuable than producing the right answers. Unfortunately, our schools often have the opposite emphasis. They teach us how to answer, but not how to ask.”

  • Realizing that SELLING is SERVING

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book To Sell is Human

    “This is what it means to serve: improving another’s life and, in turn, improving the world.”

  • To UPSELL to someone , first UPSERVE

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book To Sell is Human

    “Anytime you’re tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you’re doing and upserve instead.”

  • This is the principle followed by GREAT LEADERS to build TRUST

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek

    “TRUST is built on telling the TRUTH , not telling what people want to hear”