Once upon a time, when you wanted to learn how to be good at business, you started by selling. Whether you learned by selling lemonade, Girl Scout cookies, knives or magazine subscriptions, there was, and is, an agreed-upon wisdom among smart business minds that learning to sell stuff translates pretty well into learning to sell yourself, your product, your business or even a still-nascent business plan.
But for all the companies like Xerox or IBM, Google and Dropbox — and even leading MBA programs — which you’d expect to deliver rock-solid sales training, there’s one place where you might be very surprised to find it on offer.
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