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The Hidden Skill: Recognizing Why Every Professional Role Involves Sales

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Key Takeaways

  • Effective work across various disciplines often involves "selling" ideas, priorities, and vision, even outside traditional sales roles.
  • Shipping successful products requires convincing engineers, persuading designers, and rallying teams—actions rooted in sales principles.
  • Technical tasks, like advocating for code refactoring, are essentially sales pitches focused on future benefits.
  • Great founders seamlessly integrate building their product/service with selling their vision, understanding that every interaction builds conviction.
  • From Product Managers selling vision to Engineers selling architecture, influence and persuasion (sales) are core components of almost every job function.
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