by Adam Shapiro | Aug 31, 2022 | Careers, Sales Leader, Sales Management, Today's Lessons
Lake days are often the best days. Sunday, we had friends up to our lake house and enjoyed swimming, sunning, and a few adult beverages. After lunch, we moved to the Splash & Chill Island aka Relaxation Station to get wet and cool...
by Adam Shapiro | Apr 11, 2022 | Careers, Today's Lessons, Uncategorized
Over 20 years ago, I started doing something I love just for me. Three days a week, I laced up my shoes and played pick-up basketball at our local YMCA. League or pick-up games – didn’t matter. For as long as I can remember, the...
by Adam Shapiro | Jun 3, 2021 | Careers, Sales Leader, Today's Lessons
My friend and colleague John Yeager asked me last month on his podcast: “…Professionalizing your sales team and process, what does that mean?” I nearly went on a tangent comparing his question to the back and forth between Snoop Dogg and Lil Dicky in...
by Adam Shapiro | May 23, 2019 | Careers, Marketing, Today's Lessons, Uncategorized
You see me and SalesReformSchool™ in print here, some of you may have heard me speak live and in-person, and I’ll have coffee one-on-one with virtually anyone. I’ve done both private and public webinars, but until last week I had never been interviewed...
by Adam Shapiro | Feb 1, 2019 | Careers, Sales Leader, Sales Management, Sales Process, Today's Lessons, Uncategorized
Do you ever get the feeling that the universe is trying to teach you something? I had heard of the word “heuristic” before but really didn’t know what it meant. Then, the past few weeks – My daughter Hannah described for me her research work...
by Adam Shapiro | Jun 6, 2018 | Careers, Marketing, Today's Lessons, Uncategorized
“Press it!” Cousin Ira said. Ira believes in hot and cold dealers and dice, karma, good runs and bad luck. I had been on a good run of luck and to Ira, this is precisely the time to raise your bet. Me? Not so much. I guess I paid attention too much in math and logic...