February 2013
Beginner to intermediate
240 pages
4h 19m
English
“When it comes to teamwork, I can admit that I’m not great at it. When it comes to my business, it’s like my household. I don’t want somebody else folding my laundry. I know what I like and where it goes.”
—Abigail Lechthaler, financial advisor
A mega-financial services company recently announced to associates that, effective immediately, everyone would be part of a team. The reasoning, the execs explained, is that the team approach to selling insurance and financial planning services has become more profitable than the individual approach.
The company’s high-level producers responded to the news uniformly: “No way.”