The Salesman Against The World

An illegal political power play and the brunt of its subsequent repercussions befall division-leading superstar Vincent Scott, whose unrest amidst corruption in his department and role in the plot to expose the truth about their criminal corporate dictator serves as his downfall. We find Vincent two years later in the midst of a new crisis: uncertainty after a lengthy penance, loss of countless relationships and questioning everything he has ever known while once again trying to play savior to his team and fight through unthinkable circumstances. In the spirit of "Birth of a Salesman", the book-within-a-book format continues with Vincent Scott's, "The Surviving Game".

Birth of a Salesman is the quintessential how-to-sell and sales leadership book, encased within the business conspiracy novel detailing the exploits of fictional author, Vincent Scott. The chapters of his book The Selling Game are strategically placed throughout the narrative as they illustrate lessons on interviewing for the job, sales preparation, gripping introduction, quality fact-finding, effective pitching, solid closing, superior overcoming objections, earning the promotion, battling burnout and leading sales teams that he learned along the road to success. As Vincent sculpts his book and professionally heads into a pivotal time in his career, he draws upon memories of the clashes, controversy, friends and foes that shaped his rise to power over the last ten years of his life for reference. Along the way, he has had his heart broken, suffered losses, stood up repeatedly to corrupt superiors and been to hell and back, but he is still standing as he leads his team through a dark period.

The runaway bestseller with more than five million copies in print! You too can change your life with the priceless wisdom of ten ancient scrolls handed down for thousands of years. “Every sales manager should read The Greatest Salesman in the World. It is a book to keep at the bedside, or on the living room table—a book to dip into as needed, to browse in now and then, to enjoy in small stimulating portions. It is a book for the hours and for the years, a book to turn to over and over again, as to a friend, a book of moral, spiritual and ethical guidance, an unfailing source of comfort and inspiration.”—Lester J. Bradshaw, Jr., Former Dean, Dale Carnegie Institute of Effective Speaking & Human Relations “I have read almost every book that has ever been written on salesmanship, but I think Og Mandino has captured all of them in The Greatest Salesman in the World. No one who follows these principles will ever fail as a salesman, and no one will ever be truly great without them; but, the author has done more than present the principles—he has woven them into the fabric of one of the most fascinating stories I have ever read.”—Paul J. Meyer, President of Success Motivation Institute, Inc. “I was overwhelmed by The Greatest Salesman in the World. It is, without doubt, the greatest and the most touching story I have ever read. It is so good that there are two musts that I would attach to it: First, you must not lay it down until you have finished it; and secondly, every individual who sells anything, and that includes us all, must read it.”—Robert B. Hensley, President, Life Insurance Co. of Kentucky

The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room. "By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." —Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times "So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." —Time

The co-founder of CNN offers a behind-the-scenes account of the tumultuous launch of the world's first twenty-four-hour, all-news network.

On a business trip to Minneapolis, I was fortunate to spend much of a day interviewing the greatest salesperson I've ever known - Vincent Scott, whose early career exploits were captured a decade ago in 2010's sales book-in-a-biography "Birth of a Salesman"."Salesman on Fire" includes our discussions, which not only outline his sales and leadership career, valuable lessons and learnings, but also some of his greatest triumphs and defeats. Vincent recounts his entire 20+ year career - from starting out in sales to rising rapidly through the ranks - and highlights some never-before-known occurrences and philosophies past and present. "Birth of a Salesman" was the tip of the iceberg; "Salesman on Fire" finds a middle-aged Vincent Scott reflecting on life, love and how he handled the greatest challenges and choices of his entire career.

The story of one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics What is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the traveling salesman problem is one of the most intensely studied puzzles in applied mathematics—and it has defied solution to this day. In this book, William Cook takes readers on a mathematical excursion, picking up the salesman's trail in the 1800s when Irish mathematician W. R. Hamilton first defined the problem, and venturing to the furthest limits of today’s state-of-the-art attempts to solve it. He also explores its many important applications, from genome sequencing and designing computer processors to arranging music and hunting for planets. In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman travels to the very threshold of our understanding about the nature of complexity, and challenges you yourself to discover the solution to this captivating mathematical problem.