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The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 4 of The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies. Author Chet Holmes offers this advice: Instead of trying to master four thousand strategies to improve your business, zero in on the few essential skill areas that make the big difference.
Chapter 4: Becoming a Brilliant Strategist
How to Get Up to Nine Times More Impact from Every Move You Make
As we've already established, it's harder than ever to get in front of a potential buyer, so when you finally get your company in front of that buyer, you need to maximize what you can accomplish in that moment.
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"The Right Use of Books"
from The Art of Living, circa 55 CE, by Epictetus.
Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.
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Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines | Slashdot >> The Mechanized Future
"In our increasingly mechanized world, we repeatedly hear promises that every new digital product, computerized service, or other form of technology, will make our lives easier — bestowing greater leisure, health, and happiness.
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What provokes change? Back in the mid-1400s, Gutenberg changed communication (as did his lesser known predecessor). Communication was again changed with the Internet.
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If all economics classes had a professor like Robert Frank, economics might be a bit more hip. Professor Frank commences his classes by asking students to apply economics to real-world issues.
These questions and their answers now make up his recently published book, The Economic Naturalist.
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