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320: Harvard's Frank Cespedes, Managing sales in a world of constant change (Strategy Skills classics)

The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving

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Why Another Book on Sales?

Frank: I had two motivations in writing this book. The first one is fundamentally a professional intellectual motivation of all the activities in business sales. Sales is also that area of business where people, including senior executives and consultants at big strategy consulting firms feel comfortable making broad huge generalizations which are usually unsupported by any empirical data beyond what in academia, we would call n equals one. And so I wanted to set the record straight about that as well.

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