I found this article and thought it said what needed to be said and I thought I would share it with the few that read this blog. It was written by Jeff Schmitt.
The day of reckoning has arrived. Your leadership skills need an overhaul, and I’ve detailed why in the following slides. Any of these [...]
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I know you have all seen this in your day. There is a good salesman who is excellent at what he does. He closes the sales and brings in the accounts and is successful in almost every way. The management group is so impressed with him that they do what? Promote him to manager! Why? Because that’s what we think is the right next step in the old fashioned career ladder.
Many times that recently promoted salesman fails. Sometimes they fail miserably because their talent isn’t in managing others, it’s in closing the sale.
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