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Klubeck: Money cannot fix financial distress without changing underlying decision-making behaviors
“There isn't enough money in the world to take care of their decisions. Do you follow? Cause if, even if I paid for this or paid for that, they would still have the same mindset and the same decision making, the same behaviors that created that situation.”
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Klubeck: Salespeople Must Take 100% Responsibility for Wasted Time
“Nobody spends your time. Right. So we got to get out of it using my time. Well, you're allowing you follow. You got to take a hundred percent responsibility. What happens there, right? So instead of being victimized by these people that they don't know what th…”
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Klubeck: Accountability feels like an attack without full personal responsibility
“A lot of times people equate accountability with punishment. You know, accountability always feels like an attack if we're not ready. To be 100% responsible for our own behavior.”
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Klubeck: Most People Judge Others Rather Than Defining Personal Purpose
“Most people Would rather stand at the water cooler, pointing a finger at somebody else they believe to be out of integrity than to do the work and look within and declare their own purpose and make sure everything that aligns with their purpose is yes. And eve…”
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Klubeck: Workers Resent Opaque Corporate Systems, Not Labor Itself
“I don't think fundamentally people don't want to work. What I think people are upset with is feeling trapped by work as a pawn in somebody else's game that isn't transparent, isn't digestible, isn't accessible.”
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Klubeck: Calling choices 'bad decisions' triggers ego defense and shuts down listening
“As soon as you say bad decision, now the defenses are up. You've triggered ego defense, and they're going to have a hard time hearing the rest of what comes out of your mouth.”
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Klubeck: Expanding Sales Pipelines Eliminates Frustration Over Lost Prospects
“Another way to reduce the frustration is to keep jacking your pipeline so much that you're not frustrated by anybody that doesn't come through. Makes sense. So I'm not worried about the person that I talked about three weeks ago that isn't getting back to me b…”
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Klubeck: Meaningful work helping others originates from personal desires
“I believe most of the really passionate work that we do in this world, even if, and as it helps so many others, it's really starts with what we want for ourselves.”
Disclosure
Klubeck stopped lending money to his parents in his late twenties
“So I got out of the lending my money, my, I got out of the lending my parents money business in my late twenties.”
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Klubeck: Casual text inquiries are tire-kicking, not qualified leads
“They can't disappear until they've appeared and just kicking tires in a thumbed message. That's not appeared. They're not a qualified lead at that point.”
