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Good post, John!

I think we sell all the time.

We sell our design as a solution to a problem. We sell ourselves as the best candidate for a job. We sell our completed project as an artifact demonstrating performing at the next level for promotion.

Our careers are like running a company. You need your sales and marketing, your R&D, your management, creating your internal tooling...

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Exactly!

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Sales is a universal skill, that comes handy in so many different situations! Including knowing how to show value of ourselves. Love the steps noted down -> they can be used universally.

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sometimes selling requires compromising - adapting the product (solution) to the user needs :)

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I highly recommend “Conversations That Win the Complex Sale”. It’s intended for sales people, but as you wrote - being able to sell is a super useful skill!

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