Comments on: Salesmen and Rules

By: LuckyOye

LuckyOye — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:45:36 +0000

By a weird coincidence, I find the same thing to be true of driving on Mumbai roads. Poor driving combined with bad roads bring out the worst in Mumbai drivers. When one gets away with rash or negligent driving time and again, even the good drivers feel cheated. The urge to cut the gap, add an additional ‘lane’ at the signal, overtaking from the left, and driving on the wrong side just to overtake a few vehicles is turning even the most decent drivers to the dark side.

Case of bad money drives out good money.

By: PrAvEeN

PrAvEeN — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:01:40 +0000

Mis-selling is everywhere – real estate, pharma, Retail, whatever u name it. Even road side veg vendor says the fruits are fresh. Sales guys says IT IS THEIR JOB!!! But we had to check and decide whether to buy or not. So it’s buyer who had to beware.

Subra sir at least u r preaching to ppl who want hear & learn.

By: subra

subra — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:24:34 +0000

Sachin if the excuse is ‘there is no place to go’ then u cannot go anywhere, right? there are good salesmen, cheating salesmen, great salesmen. Similarly you can change professions – go from sales to ops, tons and tons of opportunities…

By: subra

subra — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:21:53 +0000

Sachin Fund management in the real sense has enough demand. Few competent people do that. I have friends who handle 200-500 crores. Surely they make Rs. 1-10 crores a year, not bad right? No sales target, no brokerage target only WEALTH target…

By: Sachin

Sachin — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:00:11 +0000

“The people who live by the rules leave”

Where do they go? There is not any place where they can go. Sadly, in every profession or business, you will come across people who break rules, more or less.

May be you tone down your expectations, sacrifice quantity and try to give quality.

Unfortunately in most professions, if you do not have a minimum quantity, your quality of service is going to suffer. You simply do not get enough experience if you do not have quantity.

I have not found answer to this dilemma.

By: srk

srk — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:11:39 +0000

“Right and Wrong is a choice. Somebody watching or not does not decide between R and W”

true right and wrong is a choice but not in case of mis-selling its always wrong.
and when say watching i mean there should be some agency to regulate distributors.
one can complain to IRDA in cases of insurance but what about other products where mis-selling happens

By: asmi

asmi — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 11:34:46 +0000

Our next door neighbour for the past 5+ yrs is MDRT holder. And we escaped being snared Now they have given up on us but it was very difficult initially.Every conversation (even with our guests) used to end at insurance policy like the story of the cow and the student.Talk of single-mindedness.

By: Milind N

Milind N — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:59:32 +0000

Muthu welcome back .We do appreciate your comment , and missed you .

By: Mira D

Mira D — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:49:48 +0000

This may be off topic but in a way, possibly not.
I follow the Cary Tenis column on Salon, and the comments on this post are pretty interesting– a compromise-rich alternative to the Ayn Rand solution.

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/18/im_going_crazy_in_my_job/#comments

By: subra

subra — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 04:16:54 +0000

srk

‘unless there is fear that someone is watching’ itself is amusing to me. Right and Wrong is a choice. Somebody watching or not does not decide between R and W. Sad.

You can complain to IRDA, media, subramoney.com, ……and hope sense prevails…