How to Achieve Success in the Marketplace
How to Achieve Success in the Marketplace Two friends joined a wholesale company together just after their graduation. Both worked very hard. After several years, the boss promoted one of… How to Achieve Success in the Marketplace Two friends joined a wholesale company together just after their graduation. Both worked very hard. After several years, the boss promoted one of them to the post of Senior Sales Executive but the other remained a Sales Executive. One day, the one who was not promoted could not take it anymore. He tendered his resignation and complained that the boss did not value hard-working staff, but only promoted those who flattered him. The boss knew that he worked very hard for the years he’d spent in the company, but in order to help him realize the difference between him and his counterpart who was promoted, he sent him a task. “Go and find out if anyone is selling watermelon in the market.” The disgruntled fellow went and then returned saying, “Yes, there is someone.” The boss asked how much per kilogram? Not having the answer, this young man had to go back to the market to ask. He later returned to inform the boss that the price was $12 per kilogram. The boss then told him we would send the one that was
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