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Sales Excellence
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Sales Excellence

by Eden White
December 2023
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
5h 54m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 4

Bullying in Sales and What Motivates the Lying Boss—Primadona Sales Person

Introduction

In this chapter, we discuss how bullying affects salespeople and how it takes a toll on their personal lives including their mental health. While reviewing this chapter, we also discuss ways of dealing with the lying boss and what motivates people to enact such behaviors. Pathological lying (also called pseudologia fantastica and mythomania) is habitual or compulsive lying and was first described in the medical literature in 1891 by Anton Delbrueck.

Bullying in Sales

Definition

Workplace bullying is ongoing harmful or threatening behavior by a person or group of people in your workplace that creates a risk to your health and safety. It takes the ...

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