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Art of Business

Friday, October 30, 2009 Leave a Comment

I have been given a very sound advice by a very successful Businessman.

He says that if you want to succeed in your business, act as if you do not know anything. whenever someone starts talking to you about something, pretend as if you do not anything. Show eagerness to learn from him. Ask questions. Get as much knowledge as you can. (Of course you need to be judgmental when you can use this technique).

After sometime you would have learnt something. Now, assume that you knew about the topic. However your visitor didn't know about it. Once he leaves, one the two things will happen


  1. One you may have learnt something new
  2. Or you now wether the second person is knowledgeable or not. 
I find this technique is quite useful while dealing with vendors. ask questions about their product. If you have called 5 vendors for the same product, ask all of them. Even if you get to know about the product from vendor1, repeat your question with vendor 2/3/4 etc.

Once they leave - analyse.

 

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