Did you know that a flea has learned behaviour?
If you put a flea in a jar with a lid on, the flea will jump, hit the lid and go not further.
It learns that everytime it jumps the lid stops it and it can go no further.
Take the lid off, the flea does not jump out of the jar, it jumps as far as where the lid would have been.
The lid teaches it a behaviour.
That's the problem with sales and marketing today, it has a trained behaviour.
The fact that the world has changed beyond recognition, sales and marketing departments still insist on working as if its still 1980.
Sales and marketing departments are like fleas.
The mega-trends of social media, internet, mobile and covid-19 has changed the world.
But still the fleas work to their learned behaviour.
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