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[Review] To Sell Is Human

YoungUpstarts

The first section reveals that the sales profession hasn’t vanished into thin air despite the “disintermediating” propensities of the Internet. The final third of the book provided the “rules of the road” for anybody in the selling profession (ie everybody). Rebirth of a Salesman. What To Do.

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The Great Fragmentation

aweissman.com

A few weeks ago my partner Albert Wenger wrote about Facebook being unbundled: "Facebook's Real Mobile Problem: Unbundling" where he opined that "mobile devices are doing to web services what web services did to print media: they unbundle." They disintermediate incumbent industries but also do the same to any new attempts at re-aggregation?