Your Sorting Hat: On selling, acting as though and delivering a team
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Dec 19, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Selling is everyone's responsibility.
Either you are selling or supporting Sales.
Are you doing a great job at selling?"
II.
"How can you help a colleague succeed? A client? A vendor?
Your best network is built from investments with zero expectations."
III.
"A bad resume talks about skills and responsibilities.
A great resume talks about achievements versus targets and benchmarks."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Pico Iyer, essayist and novelist, in his book - The Lady and the Monk - Four Seasons in Kyoto :
"If you are not happy, act the happy man. Happiness will come later. If you are in despair, act as though you believe. Faith will come afterwards."
Source: Book: Lady and the Monk by Pico Iyer
II.
Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, in his collection of book reviews - The Artist As Critic -
"Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
Source: Book: Artist as Critic by Oscar Wilde
1 Question
Are you delivering an outcome or delivering a team that delivers outcomes? Different approach, different results.
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times