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Fractured Adages
We are all familiar with the old adage: “A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.” I was sitting with a prospect the other day when this adage floated up. As he was laying out his plan to have his sales managers conduct sales training for his direct sales team. The same team that missed goal in 2008, managed by the same managers who were unable to lead their teams to hit reduced goals so far this year (and in case you wondering I saw their pipeline for the rest of the year, let’s just call it Arizona). As he was waxing poetic about his plans, I thought yup, he’ll save some bucks. Then a variation on the adage surfaced and I wondered: “Does a sales organization who is their own trainer have a fool for a client?”
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Tibor Shanto
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November 3rd, 2009
Honestly, who wrote this? Is it to be taken seriously? The adage is misquoted, the third sentence isn’t even a sentence, the fourth sentence is riddled with grammatical errors, and the “Arizona” reference might mean something to someone, but I don’t get it.
November 3rd, 2009
HI Dave,
Thanks for your feedback, always welcome.
I am sorry you feel it lacks the FIZZ some of other discussions. The quote is a direct cut and paste, so if I have it wrong so does answers.com. Not sure about the third sentence, but I am trying to help people sell better not win a Pulitzer. If you did not get, I have to assume you were not a fan of Rocky and Bullwinkle, great show BTW.
Keep your comments coming.
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