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To do justice to this subject matter, one must make reference to Arthur Miller's legendary play entitled, The Death of a Salesman. To refresh your memory, Miller won a Pulitzer Prize for his work, which he described as, the tragedy of a man who gave his life, or sold it in pursuit of the American dream. The main character in the play is Willy Loman, who, after many years on the road as a traveling salesman, realizes he has been a failure as a father and husband. His sons Happy and Biffare not successful on his terms (being well-liked). Willy's main claim to fame was to use a smile and a shoeshine as the only sales technique one needs to be successful in sales.
To say the least, Arthur Miller taught us that selling success need not be at the expense of being a failure as a father or a husband. In other words, being a great salesperson and being a great father/mother and a husband/wife does not have to be mutually exclusive. For...