Hi,

I hope you had a great week.

Last Friday, Peter presented me a heavy (very heavy) custom made Dublin Crystal piece of art entitled Excellence Award 2005 with my name and 3R (all laser engraved). Which is great, since it shows that I have at least reached Peter’s expectations.

A part from this great event, this week, I have worked on a sales survey that tries to understand the pain staking problems sales managers have. Questions range from CRM to sales methodologies.
I have also added from researching questions to Peter’s Interview sheets, that he uses to screen and select sales reps. Speaking of that…

This week, I offer this last advice (and somewhat atypical):

Through out this internship, I have been reading a lot of different books including “The 10 day MBA” by Steven Silbiger (which pushed me to buy “The portable MBA in Marketing”) and I realized that I already had learned like +90% of the content of those books at IFI. And yet I will graduate there not with a MBA, but with a Bachelor.

You might be wondering, what about the advice: well, there is nothing more valuable than have a MBA academic brain with a Bachelor degree…since the return on investment is only higher. Of course, you have to then screen the different personalities to find what you are looking for…yet if you are looking for a businessperson capable in international marketing or managemenent, IFI is a very smart place to start.

Joachim