Does social class enable success as a salesperson?

Career salespeople – more specifically, consistently successful salespeople – are a group of professionals who realize that success requires hard work, constant improvement, and execution.

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Affluenza: The peception of the wealth of others drives spending

While this article from the New York Times is ostensibly about life in New York… the concepts readily apply to any high cost of living city…. San Francisco, Vancouver, Hong Kong…

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The fall of men in the workplace signals class separation

Men who are less successful are less attractive as partners, so women are choosing to raise children by themselves, producing sons who are less successful and attractive as partners.

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Downton and Downward

If some­one with grease on his hands and an ac­cent from a work­a­day neigh­bor­hood can rise to an es­tate man­age­ment po­si­tion in the rigid British class sys­tem, what, by com­par­i­son, are we to make of the American ex­pe­ri­ence near­ly a cen­tu­ry re­moved?

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In New York, where everything is superlative, who exactly is middle class?

What Is Middle Class in Manhattan? Drive through almost any neighbourhood around the country, and class divisions are as clear as the gate around one community or the grittiness of another. From the footprint of the house to the gleam on the car in the driveway, it is not hard to guess the economic status of the people who live there

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The desert of the toys

The way that we have considered food deserts — those parts of the city in which stores seem to stock primarily the food groups Doritos and Pepsi — we might begin to think, in essence, about toy deserts and it’s implications.

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