A short YouTube highlight in which the speaker (uploaded by Larry Weidel) reflects on discovering strengths in sales and professional services after moving into consulting and business. The speaker reframes sales as relationship-building—understanding client needs and assembling teams to deliver value—and contrasts this with earlier, caricatured notions of "selling."
You know, I think I realized I was good at sales and, you know, professional services is not selling widgets or software, but I was really good at developing client relationships and figuring out what the client needed and building a relationship based on that and then building it, you know, really building a team to get them what they needed. So I think. I think for me, it was the process was about me figuring out what I was actually good at. And I think for a long time, you know, I probably thought of sales when I worked on Capitol Hill as like, being Willy Lohman or something, you know, pedaling. Pedaling stuff door to door, which now I think is really cool and people should do. But at the time, I would have been like, oh, I'm not going to do that. Yeah. So I think going into consulting and, you know, getting into business, I realized, oh, yeah, I am actually good at sales, and sales is like, the most important thing to be doing.