Our Curious Attitude Toward ‘Selling’

I read with interest the comments on my confrere Pat Lamb’s recent post "Lawyers Are Not Special". What struck me in particular was a deep aversion among many commenters to “selling.” I’m not sure where that aversion comes from, but seems to be rooted in a Death of a Salesman-esque view of sales as fundamentally manipulative, obsequious and deceitful, where somehow the salespeople win...