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We're all in Sales nowParents sell their kids on going to bed. Spouses sell their partners on mowing the lawn. We sell our bosses on giving us more money and more time off. And in astonishing numbers we go online to sell ourselves on Facebook, Twitter and Match.com profiles. Relying on science, analysis and his trademark clarity of thought, Pink shows that sales isn't what it used to be. Then he provides a set of tools, tips, and exercises for succeeding on this new terrain - including six new ways to pitch your idea, three ways to understand another's perspective, five frames that can make your message clearer, and much more.

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Publié par	Canongate Books
Date de parution	07 février 2013
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9780857867193
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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Also by Daniel H. Pink

When Drive The Adventures of Johnny Bunko A Whole New Mind Free Agent Nation

Published by Canongate Books in 2013
This digital edition first published in 2013 by Canongate Books
Copyright © 2012 by Daniel H. Pink
The moral right of the author has been asserted
First published in the United States of America in 2012 by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA
First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
canongate.co.uk
A portion of Chapter 5 appeared in somewhat different form in The Sunday Telegraph A portion of Chapter 9 appeared in somewhat different form in the Harvard Business Review
Photographs here and here by Jessica Lerner Illustrations here and here by Rob Ten Pas
While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers, Internet addresses, and other contact information at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors, or for changes that occur after publication. Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 78689 171 6 eISBN 978 0 85786 719 3
To booksellers, with gratitude
CONTENTS
Introduction

Part One

Rebirth of a Salesman

1. We’re All in Sales Now
2. Entrepreneurship, Elasticity, and Ed-Med
3. From Caveat Emptor to Caveat Venditor

Part Two

How to Be

4. Attunement
5. Buoyancy
6. Clarity

Part Three

What to Do

7. Pitch
8. Improvise
9. Serve

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is, you’re a salesman, and you don’t know that.

A RTHUR M ILLER ,
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Introduction
A bout 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 you, no doubt, are selling in the literal sense convincing existing customers and fresh prospects to buy casualty insurance or consulting services or home-made 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.
I n 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, but they still work in traditional sales.
More startling, though, is what’s happened to the other 8 in 9. They’re in sales, too. They’re not stalking customers in a furniture showroom, but they make that we are engaged in what I call "non-sales selling." We’re persuading, convincing, and influencing others to give up something they’ve got in exchange for what we’ve got. As you’ll see in the findings of a first-of-its-kind analysis of people’s activities at work, we’re devoting upward of 40 percent of our time on the job to moving others. And we consider it critical to our professional success.
Chapter 2 explores how so many of us ended up in the moving business. The keys to understanding this workplace transformation: Entrepreneurship, Elasticity, and Ed-Med. First, Entrepreneurship. The very technologies that were supposed to obliterate salespeople have lowered the barriers to entry for small entrepreneurs and turned more of us into sellers. Second, Elasticity. Whether we work for ourselves or for a large organization, instead of doing only one thing, most of us are finding that our skills on the job must now stretch across boundaries. And as they stretch, they almost always encompass some traditional sales and a lot of non-sales selling. Finally, Ed-Med. The fastest-growing industries around the world are educational services and health care a sector I call "Ed-Med." Jobs in these areas are all about moving people.
If you buy these arguments, or if you’re willing just to rent them for a few more pages, the conclusion might not sit well. Selling doesn’t exactly have a stellar reputation. Think of all the movies, plays, and television programs that depict salespeople as one part greedy conniver, another part lunkheaded loser. In Chapter 3, I take on these beliefs in particular, the notion that sales is largely about deception and hoodwinkery. I’ll show how the balance of power has shifted and how we’ve moved from a world of caveat emptor , buyer beware, to one of caveat venditor , seller beware where honesty, fairness, and transparency are often the only viable path.
That leads to Part Two, where I cull research from the frontiers of social science to reveal the three qualities that are now most valuable in moving others. One adage of the sales trade has long been ABC "Always Be Closing." The three chapters of Part Two introduce the new ABCs Attunement, Buoyancy, and Clarity.
Chapter 4 is about "attunement" bringing oneself into harmony with individuals, groups, and contexts. I draw on a rich reservoir of research to show you the three rules of attunement and why extraverts rarely make the best salespeople.
Chapter 5 covers "buoyancy" a quality that combines grittiness of spirit and sunniness of outlook. In any effort to move others, we confront what one veteran salesman calls an "ocean of rejection." You’ll learn from a band of life insurance salespeople and some of the world’s premier social scientists what to do before, during, and after your sales encounters to remain afloat. And you’ll see why actually believing in what you’re selling has become essential on sales’ new terrain.
In Chapter 6, I discuss "clarity" the capacity to make sense of murky situations. It’s long been held that top salespeople whether in traditional sales or non-sales selling are deft at problem solving . Here I will show that what matters more today is problem finding . One of the most effective ways of moving others is to uncover challenges they may not know they have. Here you’ll also learn about the craft of curation along with some shrewd ways to frame your curatorial choices.
Once the ABCs of Attunement, Buoyancy, and Clarity have taught you how to be, we move to Part Three, which describes what to do the abilities that matter most.
We begin in Chapter 7 with "pitch." For as long as buildings have had elevators, enterprising individuals have crafted elevator pitches. But today, when attention spans have dwindled (and all the people in the elevator are looking at their phones), that technique has become outdated. In this chapter, you’ll discover the six successors of the elevator pitch and how and when to deploy them.
Chapter 8, "Improvise," covers wh