{"id":2479,"date":"2011-04-08T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/04\/failure\/"},"modified":"2011-04-08T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:58:00","slug":"failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/04\/failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great Nike commercial via the JustSell.com website:&#160; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.justsell.com\/michael-jordan-on-failure\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justsell.com\/michael-jordan-on-failure\/\">http:\/\/www.justsell.com\/michael-jordan-on-failure\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The point of the commercial walks right over to the sales world.&#160; Michael Jordan\u2019s closing statement from the commercial:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is <strong>why I succeed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is what sales managers need to understand, some times you need to let a salesperson fail.&#160; Now, I\u2019m not talking about a large, important prospect, but rather a prospect that you may know is not going to close or is misaligned in some other way.&#160; I\u2019ve come across many sales managers who want to consistently step in and help a struggling salesperson.&#160; This ends up becoming a crutch for the underperforming salesperson and he\/she will not have the opportunity to develop their skill to the fullest.<\/p>\n<p>At times, it is best to provide the coaching lesson to the salesperson and then to step back and let them apply the lesson.&#160; Guess what?&#160; Often times they are going to fail in their initial attempts.&#160; This is ok as sometimes they need to have those failures to learn the lesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great Nike commercial via the JustSell.com website:&#160; http:\/\/www.justsell.com\/michael-jordan-on-failure\/ The point of the commercial walks right over to the sales world.&#160; Michael Jordan\u2019s closing statement from the commercial: I\u2019ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Here is what sales managers need to understand, some times you need to let a salesperson fail.&#160; Now, I\u2019m not talking about a large, important prospect, but rather a prospect that you may know is not going to close or is misaligned in some other way.&#160; I\u2019ve come across many sales managers who want to consistently step in and help a struggling salesperson.&#160;&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/04\/failure\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[1688,212,1689,1750,213,142,97],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5Oho-failure","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->