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“Blue Collar” Sales and Selling

CaseInterview.com

Many get an MBA to avoid the most “blue collar” of professional jobs. I find the prejudice against working in sales incredibly ironic. It’s sales too. 2) Will you decide to improve your sales skills, or not? They aspire to be a McKinsey partner, a Goldman Sachs partner, a startup CEO or a leader in industry.

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Employees are People NOT Assets

Rick Conlow

Calling employees assets, human capital, talent, worker bees, personnel, human resources, laborer, the help, and blue collar is demeaning. You can’t serve customers without them in the office, manufacturing plant, distribution center, sales floor, or front-line. It generates a whole aura about how a company values people.

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Deals Should be Nothing but Common Sense

Martinka Consulting

If interested in a manufacturing or distribution business make sure you are comfortable with the setting and with blue collar workers. We used to call this a mini-audit (not as sexy as QofE or proof of cash) and it means tying the money on the bank statements to sales reports and financial statements.

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Stop Waiting for Governments to Close the Skills Gap

Harvard Business

There’s urgency here because we believe the role of technology in the labor market will become more pronounced as artificial intelligence and machine learning affect white-collar jobs in much the same way that robotics has affected blue-collar jobs.

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Deflation Will Return: Europe First, Then US; Global Supply Arbitrage

MishTalk

Both manufacturing blue-collar jobs and most white-collar jobs have become global. Retail Sales Cost-Cutting, Competition, and Cannibalization Numerous retailers are cutting employees. residential sales in December, up from 38.1 While demand is and always has been local, the supply side has become genuinely global.

Banking 78
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Excellent Performance From People: Follow the ‘10 Commandments!’

Confessions of a Consultant

The ‘workers’ (like myself) wore blue overalls; the foremen had brown coats; the supervisors were kitted out in white; the management sported double-breasted suits (the fashion at that time). ’ Exactly the same point applies in the ‘back-offices’ of white-collar organizations’. That’s a Sales Rep.

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