Osama on Salesmanship
Movies thorough the years have echoed the realities, thoughts, fashions, fears & histories of our times. While the movies have always had a lot of lessons to offer about leadership, humanity, friendship, love and even hatred, very seldom does one come across a motion picture that has something in it about salesmanship. The movie I saw recently is a take-off on Osama bin laden look alike and a small town reporter, Ali, who crafts a fake interview to meet his aim of going abroad. In his endeavor, Ali is faced with the difficult task of getting different personalities needed to make this interview a reality, see the goal as one. However, realizing that, he does not possess all the capabilities himself; he works on getting their buy-in and in the end creates a sell-able tape of the interview. He learns early on, that to succeed in his goals; he needs to lean on his colleagues & his client (Osama look alike poultry farmer). In reality a lot of, sales professionals, try to run oppor