Weekly Sales Thoughts

Archive for November, 2007

Save Room For Dessert

Monday, November 26th, 2007

The annual Thanksgiving issue.

Last Thursday, my family and I, complete with children and grand mothers, celebrated Thanksgiving. I married into a family that believes Thanksgiving dinner was successful only if the dining table legs threatened to buckle under the weight of the food on the table. This year was no exception.

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Existential Sales

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Over my breakfast egg one morning, I read one of my son’s college application essays that boiled down to a bio-physics angst: “If we’re just clouds of electrons hovering together like so many bees in a swarm, what’s the point of anything?”

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Win on Conditioning

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Massachusetts high school state soccer tournament. Round of 16. My son’s soccer team, defending state champs, was down 3-1 at the half, having scored only in the last few minutes of the first half.

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Based on the Evidence

Monday, November 5th, 2007

From the “I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried” department, a voice mail received earlier this month:

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