Financial Gain or Nothing

When making a plan, we all consider if the work involved will be worth the profit. But when I use the term profit here, I don't just mean financial gain. What I mean is profit is whatever you are bringing in minus the cost. Profits can be experiences, relationships, time, money, joy, or a variety of other meaningful things.


Similarly, In sales, the end goal of SDR is to schedule meetings and AEs to generate revenues. But it is also true if you are only worried about end goal and not following the process religiously, the end goal is too far to hit ๐ŸŽฏ


Whether you are new to the game or old, for me failure is as important as success because it can show us what isn't working in a career or goal and allow us to try to change that and to improve ourselves.


The new experience, new learnings, new relationships can be considered as profit along with $$ you make.


When we learn something new, we don't go from "wrong" to "right." Rather, we go from wrong to slightly less wrong.

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SADNESSLieutenant
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linkedin vibes from this post

yeah it's good to learn from mistakes...
Sunbunny31
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Right, as itโ€™s not positioned as a conversation.
jefe
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A little preachy
CuriousFox
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Isn't that the point ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜
SADNESSLieutenant
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not sure im following
SDM
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Is it bad?
SADNESSLieutenant
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Its just very face level

Could of been said as simple as

โ€˜Not all losses are losses so long as your learn the lessons and grow - thoughts?โ€™

Just so much fluff in there imo and its just irrelevant and almost insensitive too like people are losing their jobs and unable to hit quota and your like โ€˜iTs pRoFitโ€™
SDM
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Not all losses are losses so long as your learn the lessons and grow - thoughts?- this is a nice line.๐Ÿ’š

People are losing their jobs and I know it's painful... I lost my job too in Dec 2020... But I brushed up my skills..learner a few and got another job in Jan 2021... Left that in March...coz I didn't like the role and culture... Joined another in April 2021 to till date. People are losing jobs because their employers think if they aren't hitting the quota they are worth this job but that's not true.
SoccerandSales
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I think there is merit to you talking about profit in a non-monetary sense, but for a company as a whole, experiences mean nothing
Kosta_Konfucius
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Playing devils advocate you can say companies do care about experiences. Thats the reason why the have Happy Hours, Foosball Tables, or anything for culture.

These typically correlate with profit. With reducing turnover or increasing time to hire
SoccerandSales
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100% agree, I was more along the line though that at the end of the day, profit is king, and everything else is just an attempt to get there
Diablo
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You are right but the finance team will only focus on tangible assets ;)
ThatNewAE
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Good one. But if I copy and paste it on LinkedIn, will I find a post? :P
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