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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character.

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Pay your team right: A comprehensive guide to compensation

Asamby Consulting

Example: You have been a travel agent with a business travel agency for 10 years. You now enter a luxury, bespoke travel provider. Very common in sales roles, the commission is a percentage of some form of transaction that the employee gets. For a sales role, the commission might be 0.5% of the transaction volume.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

With these criteria in mind, our final list is as follows: Our analysis revealed characteristics shared by the winning firm’s leaders as well as common strategies they employed. Because dual transformations typically take years, we used a 10-year time frame in our analysis. For more on our methods, see the sidebars below.)

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

” “I was working in a wine shop during my undergrad and started to realize that I was able to close more sales by being a trusted advisor to my client rather than acting like a sales rep. The perks were fantastic – travel to new locations, work in different industries, client pays for the travel.