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...idea of being able to predict which salesmen are most likely to prosper was not an abstraction for Metropolitan Life, which in the mid-'80s was hiring 5,000 salespeople a year and training them at a cost of more than $30,000 each. Half quit the first year, and four out of five within four years. The reason: selling life insurance involves having the door slammed in your face over and over again. Was it possible to identify which people would be better at handling frustration and take each refusal as a challenge rather than a setback...
...Michael delivers a manuscript, we are all struck by how much we are made to think, and how much information there is, and how well researched it is. I'm always learning something every time I work with Michael." Notes Lynn Nesbit, his longtime literary agent: "You can never predict with Michael, because his range of interests is so broad. You can't characterize him. He writes out of real passion about a subject that he's currently thinking about...
...Kellerman, a former vice president for the Times Mirror Center, which he noted was the only organization to predict the results of the 1994 election correctly, will use surveys and focus groups to gage not just the public's view of the press, but the press' view of itself, he said...
...think the quality of the discussions and the...instruments and groups...that we have available...are now really in quite good shape, so you never want to predict anything here, but it's certainly a good process," he added...
...pretty hard to predict how good the Crimson's fortunes will be in '95. Harvard graduated three key players in June--outside hitter Zaire Dinzey, outside hitter Rachel Heit and defensive specialist Judy Iriye...