The sales cliché is that the organization’s sole focus is on results, and that sales is about winning, or manipulating people to get anyone to buy your product whether they need it or even want it. But you can be a salesman with integrity.
Dietrick Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a German pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. He was opposed to Hitler’s genocide of the Jews, and ran “underground seminaries” during the war. In 1943 he was imprisoned by the Gestapo. Bonhoeffer was executed in the spring of 1945.