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1% is less than the difference between negotiating with a hangover or not.

What a strange comparison.

If you're negotiating deals worth billions of dollars, or even just millions, I'd strongly suggest not doing so with a hangover.

> If you're negotiating deals worth billions of dollars, or even just millions, I'd strongly suggest not doing so with a hangover.

...have you met salespeople? Buying lap dances is a legitimate business expense for them. You'd be surprised how much personal rapport matters and facts don't.

In all fairness, I only know about 8 and 9 figure deals, maybe at 10 and 11 salespeople grow ethics...

I strongly suspect ethics are inversely proportional to the size of the deal.

That's more an indictment of sales culture than a critique of computational efficiency.

Well sure, because you want the person trying buy something from you for a million dollars to have a hangover.

Sounds like someone never read Sun Tzu.

(Not really, I just know somewhere out there is a LinkedInLunatic who has a Business Philosophy based on being hungover.)

Appear drunk when you are sober, and sober when you are drunk

- Sun Zoo

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