To Sell Is Human
The Surprising Truth about Moving Others
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes a surprisingand usefulbook that explores the power of selling in our lives.
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From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes a surprisingand usefulbook that explores the power of selling in our lives.
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Look out for Daniel Pink's new book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing#1 New York Times Business Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller
#1 Washington Post bestseller
From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes a surprising--and surprisingly useful--new book that explores the power of selling in our lives.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase.
But dig deeper and a startling truth emerges:
Yes, one in nine Americans works in sales. But so do the other eight.
Whether we're employees pitching colleagues on a new idea, entrepreneurs enticing funders to invest, or parents and teachers cajoling children to study, we spend our days trying to move others. Like it or not, we're all in sales now.
To Sell Is Human offers a fresh look at the art and science of selling. As he did in Drive and A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. Pink draws on a rich trove of social science for his counterintuitive insights. He reveals the new ABCs of moving others (it's no longer "Always Be Closing"), explains why extraverts don't make the best salespeople, and shows how giving people an "off-ramp" for their actions can matter more than actually changing their minds.
Along the way, Pink describes the six successors to the elevator pitch, the three rules for understanding another's perspective, the five frames that can make your message clearer and more persuasive, and much more. The result is a perceptive and practical book--one that will change how you see the world and transform what you do at work, at school, and at home.
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About a year ago, in a moment of procrastination masquerading as an act of reflection, I decided to examine how I spend my time. I opened my laptop, clicked on the carefully synched, color-coded calendar, and attempted to reconstruct what I d actually done over the previous two weeks. I cataloged the meetings attended, trips made, meals eaten, and conference calls endured. I tried to list everything I d read and watched as well as all the face-to-face conversations I d had with family, friends, and colleagues. Then I inspected two weeks of digital entrails 772 sent e-mails, four blog posts, eighty-six tweets, about a dozen text messages.
When I stepped back to assess this welter of information a pointillist portrait of what I do and therefore, in some sense, who I am the picture that stared back was a surprise: I am a salesman.
I don t sell minivans in a car dealership or bound from office to office pressing cholesterol drugs on physicians. But leave aside sleep, exercise, and hygiene, and it turns out that I spend a significant portion of my days trying to coax others to part with resources. Sure, sometimes I m trying to tempt people to purchase books I ve written. But most of what I do doesn t directly make a cash register ring. In that two-week period, I worked to convince a magazine editor to abandon a silly story idea, a prospective business partner to join forces, an organization where I volunteer to shift strategies, even an airline gate agent to switch me from a window seat to an aisle. Indeed, the vast majority of time I m seeking resources other than money. Can I get strangers to read an article, an old friend to help me solve a problem, or my nine-year-old son to take a shower after baseball practice?
You re probably not much different. Dig beneath the sprouts of your own calendar entries and examine their roots, and I suspect you ll discover something similar. Some of
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you, no doubt, are selling in the literal sense convincing existing customers and fresh prospects to buy casualty insurance or consulting services or homemade pies at a farmers market. But all of you are likely spending more time than you realize selling in a broader sense pitching colleagues, persuading funders, cajoling kids. Like it or not, we re all in sales now.
And most people, upon hearing this, don t like it much at all.
Sales? Blecch. To the smart set, sales is an endeavor that requires little intellectual throw weight a task for slick glad-handers who skate through life on a shoeshine and a smile. To others it s the province of dodgy characters doing slippery things a realm where trickery and deceit get the speaking parts while honesty and fairness watch mutely from the rafters. Still others view it as the white-collar equivalent of cleaning toilets necessary perhaps, but unpleasant and even a bit unclean.
I m convinced we ve gotten it wrong.
This is a book about sales. But it is unlike any book about sales you have read (or ignored) before. That s because selling in all its dimensions whether pushing Buicks on a car lot or pitching ideas in a meeting has changed more in the last ten years than it did over the previous hundred. Most of what we think we understand about selling is constructed atop a foundation of assumptions that has crumbled.
In Part One of this book, I lay out the arguments for a broad rethinking of sales as we know it. In Chapter 1, I show that the obituaries declaring the death of the salesman in today s digital world are woefully mistaken. In the United States alone, some 1 in 9 workers still earns a living trying to get others to make a purchase. They may have traded sample cases for smartphones and are offering experiences instead of encyclopedias,
And most people, upon hearing this, don t like it much at all.
Sales? Blecch. To the smart set, sales is an endeavor that requires little intellectual throw weight a task for slick glad-handers who skate through life on a shoeshine and a smile. To others it s the province of dodgy characters doing slippery things a realm where trickery and deceit get the speaking parts while honesty and fairness watch mutely from the rafters. Still others view it as the white-collar equivalent of cleaning toilets necessary perhaps, but unpleasant and even a bit unclean.
I m convinced we ve gotten it wrong.
This is a book about sales. But it is unlike any book about sales you have read (or ignored) before. That s because selling in all its dimensions whether pushing Buicks on a car lot or pitching ideas in a meeting has changed more in the last ten years than it did over the previous hundred. Most of what we think we understand about selling is constructed atop a foundation of assumptions that has crumbled.
In Part One of this book, I lay out the arguments for a broad rethinking of sales as we know it. In Chapter 1, I show that the obituaries declaring the death of the salesman in today s digital world are woefully mistaken. In the United States alone, some 1 in 9 workers still earns a living trying to get others to make a purchase. They may have traded sample cases for smartphones and are offering experiences instead of encyclopedias,
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Autoren-Porträt von Daniel H. Pink
Daniel H. Pink is the author of four books, including the long-running New York Times bestsellers Drive and A Whole New Mind. His books have been translated into thirty-three languages and have sold more than a million copies in the United States alone. Pink lives with his family in Washington, D.C.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Daniel H. Pink
- 2013, 272 Seiten, Maße: 15,1 x 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 1594631905
- ISBN-13: 9781594631900
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.11.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Full of aha! moments . . . timely, original, throughly engaging, deeply humane."strategy + business
A fresh look at the art and science of sales using a mix of social science, survey research and stories.
Dan Schawbel, Forbes.com
"Artfully blend(s) anecdotes, insights, and studies from the social sciences into a frothy blend of utility and entertainment."
Bloomberg
"Excellent radical, surprising, and undeniably true."
Harvard Business Review Blog
Pink has penned a modern day How to Win Friends and Influence People... To Sell Is Human is chock full of stories, social science, and surprises All leaders at least those who want to move people should own this book.
Training and Development magazine
"Vastly entertaining and informative."
Phil Johnson, Forbes.com
"Pink is one of our smartest thinkers about the interaction of work, psychology and society."
Worth
"A roadmap to help the rest of us guide our own pitches."
Chicago Tribune
Like discovering your favorite professor in a box packed with information, reasons to care about his message, how and why to execute his suggestions, and it's all accentuated with meaningful examples this book deserves a good, long look.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"An engaging blend of interviews, research and observations by [this] incisive author"
The Globe and Mail
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