Feb
Let Your Abstraction Set The Stage With Your Sales Prospects
Copyright (c) 2011 Matthew Linklater
Recently, I started reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged as a recommendation from the Founder of today’s wildly successful email marketing company, Groupon, Andrew Mason. The book was suggested as a tool for better understanding an approach to subconscious and conscious thought processes, and how those concepts can be used to enhance sales training that leads to heightened success on the bottom line. In fact, after reading through the book, I discovered that one of the many boldly inventive ideas that Ayn Rand proposes through Atlas Shrugged, (once unpacked from its complexity and understood more fully), strongly supports one of the primary sales tools that I leverage in my sales training.
Rand writes, “In learning, we draw an abstraction from concrete objects and events. In creating, we make our own concrete objects and events out of the abstraction; we bring the abstraction down and back to its specific meaning, to the concrete; but the abstraction has helped us to make the kind of concrete we want the concrete to be. It has helped us to create to re-shape the world as we wish it to be for our purposes.”