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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Avengers: Infinity War

Joseph Lalonde

Or maybe you’re not getting things done because it’s all talk and no action. Learn when to talk and when to shut up. Recognize talent: Thanos had traveled to Gamora’s home planet of Zen-Whoberi. Are you overpowering conversations? Are there decisions that aren’t being made well because all you do is talk?

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

The Order of United Commercial Travelers , for instance, was founded to “ improve character and instill temperate habits,” and Gideon bibles were originally put in hotel rooms to help “ eliminate gambling , drinking, dirty jokes, Sunday trading and other forms of temptation peculiar to traveling (sales) men.”

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10 BIG Development Goals for Leaders for 2012

Great Leadership By Dan

Although I can’t tell you how many people I’ve met that have never traveled more than 100 miles from where they were born, like Jim Carrey’s character in The Truman Show. Talk to others that have done it, you may find out it’s not as bad as you think it could be. And sorry, no, a vacation doesn’t count.

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