Working in sales and being responsible for selling can be difficult, and it's not for everybody – least of all the introverted developer-now-manager!
However, selling ideas is very much part of a manager's job, whether that's selling ideas about improvement to their team, or selling an idea for a new software product or feature to a potential customer. Besides that, there's always the cliché of "selling yourself," or your team, or the organization you represent.
You have already successfully sold yourself at your interview to secure the manager job, and you may have even made a successful pitch at a sales meeting, as we discussed in Chapter 7, Meetings.
In short, you've already done a lot of selling, and you're evidently quite good at it. So, there's certainly...
