In the agency world, this is absolutely true. The goal is to get more work, not to do good work. Those who are good in the pitch meetings get promoted. In an i

In the agency world, this is absolutely true. The goal is to get more work, not to do good work. Those who are good in the pitch meetings get promoted. In an internal marketing department? Much less true. You still need people who are good at presenting and working with internal clients, but that is more based on communication skills then selling.