To Sell is Human - Part 2: The Call to Adventure The ancient echoes of adventure reverberate through the ages. Just as Odysseus heard the call to leave the familiar shores of Ithaca and brave the wine-dark sea, facing monstrous challenges and seductive temptations in...
The Mericans are a familiar family. Elon and Amy met in college, and after Amy completed grad school, they got married and began to build a life together. The newlyweds enjoyed a few years as DINKs - double income no kids - with travel, eating out, nice cars, and new...
To sell is human because meaningful connection, service - love is human. Love is not primarily a feeling. Love in its most powerful form is a verb, it is active. To love someone is to take loving actions toward them, to serve, to honor, to anticipate need, to put...
I finished Daniel Pink’s book “To Sell is Human” a month ago. For me, the best part of the book, the thing that has stuck with me, is simply the title: “To Sell is Human”—a profound revelation. Indeed, in our human experience, we are all selling or being sold, moving...
We do an annual employee satisfaction survey and elicit feedback from our team about the strengths and weaknesses of our culture. We get a lot of great feedback that we take very seriously and much of it informs our people-strategy. There was one bit of written...
ReflectionWe launched the Real Leadership podcast about a year and a half ago. Our primary objective was to highlight Real Leaders in the real economy who were not getting the air-time we felt they deserved. The upside on this project for me...
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