Volume is vanity, Profit is sanity

Ontem, enquanto conversava com alguém que me contava os problemas da sua empresa, a minha mente não resistiu a recordar esta reflexão de Scott McKain no seu livro "Collapse of Distinction":
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""That may be the most foolish phrase I have ever seen at a business meeting."
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The theme of the other organization's conference was "Sales Cure Everything!"
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If your organization isn't serving your customers well, do more sales cure that problem? Of course not.
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If your company cannot retain good employees because it lacks the clarity necessary to create distinction, do more sales cure that? Absolutely not.
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If you cannot make your product stand out in the marketplace, and you slice your price - selling more, but earning significantly less - does that cure everything for you and your organization? You know it doesn't.
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If you fail to communicate what your organization is about, what it stands for - or what makes you clearly compelling individually as a professional - will hawking more of your stuff cause your challenges in communication to evaporate? Please don't deceive yourself into thinking that it might."
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