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How Being Good at Sales Can Help You Change the World

Name: How Being Good at Sales Can Help You Change the World
Uploaded: 2017-04-19T17:25:01Z
Duration: 1 min 27 s
Channel: Blair Singer
Description: Speaker (Blair Singer) opens a motivational talk arguing that the world needs leaders beyond politicians — leaders who influence families, communities…

19 Apr 2017 · 1 min

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Speaker (Blair Singer) opens a motivational talk arguing that the world needs leaders beyond politicians — leaders who influence families, communities, and businesses. He connects sales and leadership: both require changing people’s behavior and generating income/resources. The practical goal is to "make a lot of money helping a lot of people," enabling large-scale positive change; the speaker cites mentor Buckminster Fuller and uses rhetorical audience engagement.

I believe that the world needs great leaders. How many would agree with that? And I'm not talking about politicians. That's a different form of leadership. That's not the kind I'm talking about. I'm talking about the people that you affect. Your families, your communities, your businesses. All those people. Yes. Because I just. You know, one of my mentors was a guy by the name of Dr. Buckminster Fuller who said one person could make a difference. You know what? 200 of you can make a massive difference. Everybody understand? Yes. However, the problem is you got to make money. Yes or no? Yes or no. Why do you have to make money? Well, survival. Yeah. That's part of it. Hopefully more than that. But you need resource. Yes. Yes. How many people would like to help a lot of people? How many would like to make a lot of money helping a lot of people? How many would like to make a lot of money helping a lot of people that also help a lot of people and also make a lot of money? Yeah. Yes. That's the formula here. So that's why originally this program was called Sales and Leadership. Sales and what? Leadership. Because it's one thing to sell, and leadership and sales are almost identical. But the idea here is you've got to be able to generate income, create wealth, create resources, and help people change their behaviors. Yes, that's sales, but it's also leadership. Got it.