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In their pamphlet “Why Don’t Those Salespeople Sell,” Learning Dynamics Incorporated, a sales training firm, cites poor ability to present benefits as one of ten reasons why salespeople fail to make the sale.
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Robert W. Bly (The Copywriter's Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells)
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The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. The methods may (at first) differ in brutality. But many a mild-eyed scientist in pince-nez, many a popular dramatist, many an amateur philosopher in our midst, means in the long run just the same as the Nazi rulers of Germany. Traditional values are to be ‘debunked’ and mankind to be cut out into some fresh shape at the will (which must, by hypothesis, be an arbitrary will) of some few lucky people in one lucky generation which has learned how to do it. The belief that we can invent ‘ideologies’ at pleasure, and the consequent treatment of mankind as mere ulh, specimens, preparations, begins to affect our very language. Once we killed bad men: now we liquidate unsocial elements. Virtue has become integration and diligence dynamism, and boys likely to be worthy of a commission are ‘potential officer material’. Most wonderful of all, the virtues of thrift and temperance, and even of ordinary intelligence, are sales-resistance.
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C.S. Lewis (The Abolition of Man)
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A small businesses ability to gain an edge for a profitable niche is not by just focusing on the dynamic market gap, but by identifying a market within the gap.
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The “German problem” after 1970 became how to keep up with the Germans in terms of efficiency and productivity. One way, as above, was to serially devalue, but that was beginning to hurt. The other way was to tie your currency to the deutsche mark and thereby make your price and inflation rate the same as the Germans, which it turned out would also hurt, but in a different way.
The problem with keeping up with the Germans is that German industrial exports have the lowest price elasticities in the world. In plain English, Germany makes really great stuff that everyone wants and will pay more for in comparison to all the alternatives. So when you tie your currency to the deutsche mark, you are making a one-way bet that your industry can be as competitive as the Germans in terms of quality and price. That would be difficult enough if the deutsche mark hadn’t been undervalued for most of the postwar period and both German labor costs and inflation rates were lower than average, but unfortunately for everyone else, they were. That gave the German economy the advantage in producing less-than-great stuff too, thereby undercutting competitors in products lower down, as well as higher up the value-added chain. Add to this contemporary German wages, which have seen real declines over the 2000s, and you have an economy that is extremely hard to keep up with. On the other side of this one-way bet were the financial markets. They looked at less dynamic economies, such as the United Kingdom and Italy, that were tying themselves to the deutsche mark and saw a way to make money.
The only way to maintain a currency peg is to either defend it with foreign exchange reserves or deflate your wages and prices to accommodate it. To defend a peg you need lots of foreign currency so that when your currency loses value (as it will if you are trying to keep up with the Germans), you can sell your foreign currency reserves and buy back your own currency to maintain the desired rate. But if the markets can figure out how much foreign currency you have in reserve, they can bet against you, force a devaluation of your currency, and pocket the difference between the peg and the new market value in a short sale.
George Soros (and a lot of other hedge funds) famously did this to the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992, blowing the United Kingdom and Italy out of the system. Soros could do this because he knew that there was no way the United Kingdom or Italy could be as competitive as Germany without serious price deflation to increase cost competitiveness, and that there would be only so much deflation and unemployment these countries could take before they either ran out of foreign exchange reserves or lost the next election. Indeed, the European Exchange Rate Mechanism was sometimes referred to as the European “Eternal Recession Mechanism,” such was its deflationary impact. In short, attempts to maintain an anti-inflationary currency peg fail because they are not credible on the following point: you cannot run a gold standard (where the only way to adjust is through internal deflation) in a democracy.
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Mark Blyth (Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea)
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The number one job of a leader is to wake up every morning, point to the horizon, and let everybody on the team know where the organization is going. The number two job of a leader is to explain, in clear and simple terms, why the story of going to and arriving at that specific destination matters. The number three job of a leader is to analyze the skills and abilities of each team member and find them an important role to play in that story. All human beings long for a mission. We are all born self-identifying as heroes in a story and we know, even as children, that our existence on this planet matters. Not only this, but as communal beings, every person longs to join a team on a serious and important mission. This is why dynamic leaders are able to attract top talent. Every dynamic leader you know or have ever heard of had a mission burning inside them that other people wanted to join. Great leaders become great because their mission makes them great. There are no exceptions.
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Donald Miller (Business Made Simple: 60 Days to Master Leadership, Sales, Marketing, Execution, Management, Personal Productivity and More (Made Simple Series))
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Înţelegem poate cel mai bine inconştientul, concepându-l ca pe un organ natural cu o energie productivă specifică. Dacă produsele sale nu sunt receptate de conştiinţă, ca urmare a refulărilor, apare un fel de retro-stază. o inhibiţie nefirească a unei funcţii oportune, la fel ca atunci când bila, produsul natural al funcţiei hepatice, este împiedicată să se verse în intestin. Ca urmare a refulării apar scurgeri psihice false. După cum bila trece în sânge, tot aşa conţinutul refulat iradiază în alte zone sufleteşti şi fiziologice. În isterie sunt perturbate în special funcţiile fiziologice, în alte nevroze ca fobii, obsesii şi nevroze obsesionale sunt perturbate mai ales funcţiile sufleteşti, inclusiv visele.
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C.G. Jung (The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works, Vol 8))
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Dacă încercăm să extragem din varietatea aproape inepuizabilă de probleme individuale ale vârstei tinere ceea ce este comun şi esenţial, dăm de o caracteristică precisă care pare inerentă tuturor problemelor acestei trepte: este o agăţare mai mult sau mai puţin evidentă de gradul de conştiinţă al copilăriei, o împotrivire faţă de puterile destinului din noi şi din jurul nostru care vor să ne implice în lume. Ceva ar vrea să rămână copil, complet inconştient, sau cel puţin conştient doar de Eul propriu, să respingă orice alteritate, sau cel puţin s-o supună voinţei sale, să nu facă nimic, sau cel puţin să-şi impună cheful ori puterea. Aici e ceva din inerţia materiei, o perseverare în starea de până acum, a cărei conştienţă e mai redusă, mai strâmtă, mai egoistă decât aceea a fazei dualiste, în care individul este pus în faţa necesităţii de a recunoaşte şi accepta acel altceva, acea alteritate, ca fiind tot viaţa lui şi ca fiind un "tot-Eu".
Rezistenţa se îndreaptă împotriva lărgirii vieţii care este caracteristica esenţială a acestei faze. Această lărgire, această "diastolă" a vieţii, spre a mă sluji de o expriesie a lui Goethe, s-a instalat deja cu mult timp înainte. Ea începe odată cu naşterea, când copilul părăseşte limitarea foarte strâmtă din corpul matern, şi creşte neîncetat până ce atinge un punct culminant în starea problematică, atunci când individul începe să i se împotrivească.
Ce i s-ar întâmpla individului dacă s-ar transforma în acea alteritate, în acel altfel care este tot Eu, iar Eul de până acum ar dispărea pur şi simplu în trecut? S-ar zice că aceasta ar fi o cale perfect practicabilă. Se ştie, intenţia educaţiei religioase - de la lepădarea de vechiul Adam şi, mergând în jos, până la riturile de renaştere ale popoarelor primitive - este de a transforma omul în ceea-ce-vine, în nou, şi de a face să dispară vechiul.
Psihologia ne învaţă că în suflet nu există într-un anumit sens nimic vechi, nimic care să poată cu adevărat muri definitiv; chiar şi lui Pavel i-a rămas un ghimpe în carne. Cine se apără de nou, de străin, şi regresează în trecut este în aceeaşi dispoziţie nevrotică precum acela care, identificându-se cu noul, fuge de trecut. Singura deosebire este că unul s-a îndepărtat de viitor, celălalt de trecut. În principiu, ambii fac acelaşi lucru: îşi salvează îngustimea conştiinţei în loc să o dinamiteze prin tensiunea dintre contrarii şi astfel să edifice o stare de conştiinţă superioară, mai amplă.
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C.G. Jung (The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works, Vol 8))
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If love were circular, like a yawn, and I were dynamic and geometric, like an isosceles triangle, would you take me to bed like some hedonistic hexagon?
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Jarod Kintz (This Book is Not for Sale)
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Emotions of invincibility, emotions of inevitable success, and the feeling that he is ten-feet tall and bulletproof. And what actions flow from those emotions? The sales professional engages in a dynamic and compelling sales presentation that is designed to communicate the service, quality, and value of his company.
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Weldon Long (Consistency Selling: Powerful Sales Results. Every Lead. Every Time.)
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The sales hallway is a metaphor for the sales process; whether you use my sales process or your company’s existing sales process, the sales hallway provides a simple framework through which you will better understand the dynamics and challenges of a sales call.
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Weldon Long (Consistency Selling: Powerful Sales Results. Every Lead. Every Time.)
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Quantum Marketers need to have a good understanding of data, digital technologies, communications and public relations, sales, business dynamics, company financials, growth drivers, and so on.
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Raja Rajamannar (Quantum Marketing: Mastering the New Marketing Mindset for Tomorrow's Consumers)
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Andy’s Message Around the time I received Arius’ email, Andy’s message arrived. He wrote: Young, I do remember Rick Samuels. I was at the seminar in the Bahriji when he came to lecture. Like you I was at once mesmerized by his style and beauty, which of course was a false image manufactured by the advertising agencies and sales promoters. I was surprised to hear your backroom story of him being gangbanged in the dungeon. We are not ones to judge since both of us had been down that negative road of self-loathing. This seems to be a common thread with people whom others considered good-looking or beautiful. In my opinion, it’s a fake image that handsome people know they cannot live up to. Instead of exterior beauty being an asset, it often becomes a psychological burden. During the years when I was with Toby, I delved in some fashion modeling work in New Zealand. I ventured into this business because it was my subconscious way of reminding me of the days we posed for Mario and Aziz. It was also my twisted way of hoping to meet another person like me, with the hope of building a loving long-term relationship. It was also a desperate attempt to break loose from Toby’s psychosomatic grip on my person. Ian was his name and he was a very attractive 24 year old architecture student. He modeled to earn some extra spending money. We became fast friends, but he had this foreboding nature which often came on unexpectedly. A sentence or a word could trigger his depression, sending the otherwise cheerful man into bouts of non-verbal communication. It was like a brightly lit light bulb suddenly being switched off in mid-sentence. We did have an affair while I was trying to patch things up with Toby. As delightful as our sexual liaisons were there was a hidden missing element, YOU! Much like my liaisons with Oscar, without your presence, our sexual communications took on a different dynamic which only you as the missing link could resolve. There were times during or after sex when Ian would abuse himself with negative thoughts and self-denigration. I tried to console him, yet I was deeply sorrowed about my own unresolved issues with Toby. It was like the blind leading the blind. I was gravely saddened when Ian took his own life. Heavily drugged on prescriptive anti-depressant and a stomach full of extensive alcohol consumption, he fell off his ten story apartment building. He died instantly. This was the straw that threw me into a nervous breakdown. Thank God I climbed out of my despondencies with the help of Ari and Aria. My dearest Young, I have a confession to make; you are the only person I have truly loved and will continue to love. All these years I’ve tried to forget you but I cannot. That said I am not trying to pry you away from Walter and have you return to me. We are just getting to know each other yet I feel your spirit has never left. Please make sure that Walter understands that I’m not jeopardizing your wonderful relationship. I am happy for the both of you. You had asked jokingly if I was interested in a triplet relationship. Maybe when the time and opportunity arises it may happen, but now I’m enjoying my own company after Albert’s passing. In a way it is nice to have my freedom after 8 years of building a life with Albert. I love you my darling boy and always will. As always, I await your cheerful emails. Andy. Xoxoxo
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Young (Unbridled (A Harem Boy's Saga, #2))
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Nazism, fascism, and communism were belief systems adopted passionately by millions of well-educated men and women. Taken together, all of the totalitarian ideologies were self-contained and delivered through a one-way flow of propaganda that prevented the people who were enmeshed in the ideology from actively participating in challenging its lack of human values. Unfortunately, the legacy of the twentieth century’s ideologically driven bloodbaths has included a new cynicism about reason itself—because reason was so easily used by propagandists to disguise their impulse to power by cloaking it in clever and seductive intellectual formulations. In an age of propaganda, education itself can become suspect. When ideology is so often woven into the “facts” that are delivered in fully formed and self-contained packages, people naturally begin to develop some cynicism about what they are being told. When people are subjected to ubiquitous and unrelenting mass advertising, reason and logic often begin to seem like they are no more than handmaidens for the sophisticated sales force. And now that these same techniques dominate the political messages sent by candidates to voters, the integrity of our democracy has been placed under the same cloud of suspicion. Many advocacy organizations—progressive as well as conservative—often give the impression that they already have exclusive possession of the truth and merely have to “educate” others about what they already know. Resentment toward this attitude is also one of the many reasons for a resurgence of the traditional anti-intellectual strain in America. When people don’t have an opportunity to interact on equal terms and test the validity of what they’re being “taught” in the light of their own experience, and share with one another in a robust and dynamic dialogue that enriches what the “experts” are telling them with the wisdom of the groups as a whole, they naturally begin to resist the assumption that the experts know best. If well-educated citizens have no effective way to communicate their ideas to others and no realistic prospect of catalyzing the formation of a critical mass of opinion supporting their ideas, then their education is for naught where the vitality of our democracy is concerned.
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Al Gore (The Assault on Reason)
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CRM Keeping track of conversations, agreements, deals and tasks can be done in a Customer Relationship Manager such as HighriseHQ. The free plan of this app, again by 37 signals, allows you to track up to 250 clients and build a file on your interactions with them over time. This is a great tool to use when calling a range of prospects and keen to record the interested parties. Alternatives are Salesforce, FatFreeCRM, Microsoft Dynamics, Zoho CRM and many more. Even an Excel spreadsheet can get you started, but a nice interface and interconnectivity between deals, projects and contacts is extremely useful.
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Luke Spear (The translation sales handbook)
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the drift of risk from simple loans in traditional banks to structured products in leveraged nonbanks increased the danger of a “ ‘positive feedback’ dynamic,” a vicious cycle that could amplify a crisis. If asset prices fell, firms and investors would need money to meet margin calls, prompting fire sales that would drive asset prices even lower, and so on.
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Timothy F. Geithner (Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises)
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When our story is right, it puts us in the proper mindset to prospect for new business. The entire dynamic of the sales process changes when we view ourselves as problem solvers and value creators who are armed with a story that helps us clearly communicate to potential customers. We enter into the sales conversation with great optimism because we believe the prospect should want to talk with us.
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Mike Weinberg (New Sales. Simplified.: The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development)
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Algorithmic profits Algorithmic marketing is allowing companies to do things they couldn’t do before, and some early signs show it can deliver big value, especially in financial or information services. In North America, Amazon.com grew 30 to 40 percent, quarter after quarter, throughout the United States’ 2008-2012 recession, while other major retailers shrank or went out of business. From 2006 to 2010, Amazon spent 5.6 percent of its sales revenue on IT, while rivals Target and Best Buy spent 1.3% and 0.5%, respectively. That investment and focus has yielded increasingly sophisticated recommendation engines that deliver over 35 percent of all sales, an automated e-mail/customer service systems (90 percent are automated, versus 44 percent for the average retailer) that are a key component of its best-in-class customer satisfaction, and dynamic pricing systems that crawl the Web and react to competitor pricing and stock levels by altering prices on Amazon.com, in some cases every 15 seconds.
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McKinsey Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum (Big Data, Analytics, and the Future of Marketing & Sales)
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This dynamic is even stronger for digital goods, which can be produced almost for free. Once Amazon has formatted an e-book for sale, selling new copies of it doesn’t take any additional paper, ink, or labor—so it sells for a nearly infinite multiple of its marginal cost. As a result, the close relationship between marginal cost, price, and consumers’ willingness to pay has been weakened. In the case of services whose marginal cost is low enough that they can be free to consumers altogether, that relationship breaks down completely. Once Google has designed its search algorithms and built its server farms, providing a user with one additional search costs almost nothing.
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Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI)
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Either we are rational spirit obliged forever to obey the absolute values of the Tao, or else we are mere nature to be kneaded and cut into new shapes for the pleasures of masters who must, by hypothesis, have no motive but their own 'natural' impulses. Only the Tao provides a common human law of action which can over-arch rulers and ruled alike. A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
I am not here thinking solely, perhaps not even chiefly, of those who are our public enemies at the moment. The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. The methods may (at first) differ in brutality. But many a mild-eyed scientist in pincenez, many a popular dramatist, many an amateur philosopher in our midst, means in the long run just the same as the Nazi rulers of Germany/Traditional values are to be 'debunked' and mankind to be cut out into some fresh shape at the will (which must, by hypothesis, be an arbitrary will) of some few lucky people in one lucky generation which has learned how to do it. The belief that we can invent 'ideologies' at pleasure, and the consequent treatment of mankind as mere υλη, specimens, preparations, begins to affect our very language. Once we killed bad men: now we liquidate unsocial elements. Virtue has become integration and diligence dynamism, and boys likely to be worthy of a commission are ‘potential officer material'. Most wonderful of all, the virtues of thrift and temperance, and even of ordinary intelligence, are sales-resistance.
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C.S. Lewis (The Abolition of Man)
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There are 12 realities that form the philosophical underpinning of why the phrases and terms outlined in this book really work. Why is that? Because sales is a dynamic science that when practiced correctly, becomes an art form. And although its tactics are constantly changing, its foundational principles remain constant. Let’s take a look at a few principles of
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Jeb Brooks (Perfect Phrases for the Sales Call (Perfect Phrases Series))
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Recognize that strategies shift and can change the underlying dynamics of your organization. Effective leaders are constantly reinventing and disrupting their organizations to take advantage of the next growth wave. They realize the dangers of maintaining the status quo when disruptive forces, trends, and customer requirements change.
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Paul Pierroz (The Purpose-Driven Marketing Handbook: How to Discover Your Impact and Communicate Your Business Sustainability Story to Grow Sales, Retain Talent, and Attract Investors)
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These were the men who made deals with desperate industrialists to provide transportation for the goods stalled in their warehouses—or, failing to obtain the percentage demanded, made deals to purchase the goods, when the factory closed, at the bankruptcy sale, at ten cents on the dollar, and to speed the goods away in freight cars suddenly available, away to markets where dealers of the same kind were ready for the kill. There were the men who hovered over factories, waiting for the last breath of a furnace, to pounce upon the equipment—and over desolate sidings, to pounce upon the freight cars of undelivered goods—these were a new biological species, the hit-and-run businessmen, who did not stay in any line of business longer than the span of one deal, who had no payrolls to meet, no overhead to carry, no real estate to own, no equipment to build, whose only asset and sole investment consisted of an item known as “friendship.” These were the men whom official speeches described as “the progressive businessmen of our dynamic age,” but whom people called “the pull peddlers”—the species included many breeds, those of “transportation pull,” and of “steel pull” and “oil pull” and “wage-raise pull” and “suspended sentence pull”—men who were dynamic, who kept darting all over the country while no one else could move, men who were active and mindless, active, not like animals, but like that which breeds, feeds and moves upon the stillness of a corpse.
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Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
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Of late, I have been attempting to increase the number of women employees at Joyalukkas. A few years ago, we hired six young women for our India operations, and I have been deeply impressed by their dynamism and dedication. They have exceptional sales skills and can handle any assignment. I intend to promote women as assistant managers and managers at our stores. I also envisage senior positions for women at our corporate office, particularly in HR and marketing.
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Joy Alukkas (Spreading Joy: How Joyalukkas Became the World's Favourite Jeweller)
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When we started Nalanda in 2007, there was a lot of buzz around a company called Eicher Motors led by a young, dynamic guy called Siddhartha Lal. Lal had inherited a hodgepodge of poor-quality businesses from his father in 2004. They manufactured motorcycles, footwear, garments, tractors, trucks, auto components, and a few other products, and none was an industry leader. In a remarkably bold strategic move, Lal decided to divest thirteen of the fifteen businesses to focus on just two products: trucks and motorcycles.30 Almost every analyst was gung ho about the future of Eicher; they were all taken in by its dynamic leader who was aggressively culling businesses, something that Indian firms rarely did. However, in 2007, this was a turnaround story with no empirical evidence of success. The company’s biggest hit, the Enfield Classic motorcycle, was launched only in 2010. We decided not to invest in the business. By the 2010s, the company’s motorcycles had taken on cult status in the Indian consumer’s mind. Sales exploded from just 52,000 units in 2009 to 822,000 units in 2019: a sixteen-fold growth. If you had listened to what we had to say about the business, you would not have invested. Your opportunity loss? Seventy times your money from 2007 until 2021. Tesla and Eicher Motors are the kinds of type II error we will inevitably commit because we reject highly indebted businesses, rapidly evolving industry landscapes, and turnarounds.
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Pulak Prasad (What I Learned About Investing from Darwin)
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Once this dynamic of runs and fire sales gets started, it can be incredibly hard to contain, with enormous costs to the economy.
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Timothy F. Geithner (Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises)
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For Hamilton, the federal government had a right to stimulate business and also, when necessary, to restrain it. As Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., has observed, “Hamilton’s enthusiasm over the dynamics of individual acquisition was always tempered by a belief in government regulation and control.”54 In arguing, for instance, that government inspection of manufactured articles could reassure consumers and galvanize sales, he anticipated regulatory policies that were not enacted until the Progressive Era under Theodore Roosevelt: “Contributing to prevent fraud upon consumers at home and exporters to foreign countries—to improve the quality and preserve the character of the national manufactures—it cannot fail to aid the expeditious and advantageous sale of them and to serve as a guard against successful competition from other quarters.
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Ron Chernow (Alexander Hamilton)
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if we agree that in the future, every organization is essentially a digital organization—enabled through digital technologies, engaging customers on digital platforms and using online applications to drive sales, engagement or compliance—then it isn’t just the seamlessness of outcomes, but equally the methodology employed to deliver those outcomes which must be consistent across a large organization
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Gyan Nagpal (The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace)
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Please believe me when I say that there are few things more powerful to a product organization than reference customers. It is the single best sales tool you can provide to your sales and marketing organization, and it completely changes the dynamics between the product organization and the rest of the company.
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Marty Cagan (Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group))