Seven Personality Traits of Top Salespeople

I came to an interesting article via via on the blog of 'Harvard Business Review'. It's about 7 key personalities that top salespeople have and that makes them different from lower performing salespeople:

1. Modesty 
• Selling Style Impact: Team Orientation
2. Conscientiousness
• Selling Style Impact: Account Control
3. Achievement Orientation
• Selling Style Impact: Political Orientation
4. Curiosity
• Selling Style Impact: Inquisitiveness   
5. Lack of Gregariousness
• Selling Style Impact: Dominance
6. Lack of Discouragement
• Selling Style Impact: Competitiveness
7. Lack of Self-Consciousness
• Selling Style Impact: Aggressiveness

I don't like to copy to much, so if you're interested you can read the whole article here.