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7 Disruptive Emotions That Sabotage Your Selling

Sales and Marketing Management

The best salespeople master techniques to get past the noes and keep pushing toward the yeses – but in the process, they must field a lot of emotional turmoil. Disruptive emotions can manifest in destructive behaviors that fog focus, cloud situational awareness, cause irrational decision making, lead to misjudgments and erode confidence.

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Incentives and Rewards: A Closer Look

Sales and Marketing Management

One of the most effective reward tools is a non-monetary point system. Without precision, the incentive – as a tool to deliver motivation – fails. This approach can act as a motivational tool. Incentives are most effective at engaging the emotional drivers of motivation when they are tangible and non-monetary.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. The skins were invaluable tools for ornithological, ecological, environmental research. Simon Baron-Cohen, cousin to the comedian. Seriously, this book is crying out for a movie treatment!). Mostly adult males.

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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

Demonstrating emotional intelligence and empathy goes a long way in marketing communications; no one wants to be treated as if they’re a data point. and withstood the emergence of high-powered tech tools that promise to put so many aspects of engaging customers on automatic pilot. The science behind storytelling.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. It does not make them more or less a "tool."

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

10,000 Birds

And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. I believe in science. Science is based on logic and evidence, which I think is a very respectable way to look at the world. But what many people fail to realize, and too often scientists themselves, is that science is elastic.

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