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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Salemanship
Message-ID: <464@unc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 12:50:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: unc.464
Posted: Mon Jun 17 12:50:09 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Jun-85 03:57:14 EDT
References: <396@unc.UUCP> <acf4.1560082>
Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Frank Silbermann /* fsks@unc.UUCP /  9:59 pm  Jun 13, 1985 */
>>But my point is that it is much better to have both technical competence
>>and salesmanship, than technical competence alone.

In article <acf4.1560082> mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes:
>I think you are overlooking an important consideration.  For a lot of 
>technical people (and others), acquiring salesmanship entails a change
>of personality.  I don't believe one can be a salesman on the job and
>then not bring it home with you.  One might well begin to apply salesmanship
>in one's personal life.  Is this not too great a cost to pay for career
>success?

I wonder how much supersalesman Steven Jobs is suffering.
Seriously, salesmanship is not a personality, it's a skill
-- the verbal analog of pursuasive writing.

	Frank Silbermann