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by Animats 1168 days ago
Sales reps come from the street fighter mindset. If you hire people like that, they have to be given external targets to fight. Otherwise much energy is drained off in internal fights.

"The Gamesman" (Maccoby, 1978) divided workers into "craftsmen", "organization men", "jungle fighters", and "gamesmen". Same concept, earlier decade.