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Latest — Apr 3, 2026

Strategy Slideshow Trouble

"When you have to rely on a slide show to explain your strategy then you are in real trouble as leaders of a sᴀʟᴇs team." I've duly altered the above opening from an English broadsheet column by a former Ashes winning captain. Swapping in the label

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Reverse Transcription Fait Accompli

There is shock of seeing first-time your spontaneous remarks uttered in a random meeting later not only comprehensively appear on-screen, but then with horror amplified when taken as the indisputable thread of your thoughts on a matter. Compounded when realisation dawns such nascent or 'thinking aloud', but definitely

Deep Dive New Product Rescue Mined Afresh

I blogged last month on my dispiriting first attempt to gain newfound insight around my 'new product rescue' niche authority. Using my own 'language model' from one of the big boys to identify 'golden threads', winning patterns and useful gaps. Yet its output'

Our Pointy-Haired Boss Run New Order of Things Gauntloop

You had a parasocial relationship with Dilbert genius Scott Adams? This Catch-22 exposé is a concise takedown of the risk-averse, follow-the-herd corporate thinking of which his work brims. I cite this innovation-killer angle plenty. One of my favourites from long back being when in the personal office of an intransigent

Energy Shift From Performative To Effective

Given there is an energy crisis, why is no effort being made to reduce consumption by encouraging more use of video calls? Most business travel is performative effort, not essential. — Rory Sutherland (@rorysutherland) March 30, 2026 I've long been perplexed by The Sales approach to video calling. There

Realignment Softens Change

Blimey. Thought Brexit was put to bed? Think again. My point is not to rehash old misinformation or suture barely healing wounds. I riff on the language of the switch in play by the current UK administration in thrall to Brussels. For they seek closer alignment in the “national interest”

Over-Engineered Spec off the Rails at High Speed Gold-Plating

HS2. A byword for rank spec stupidity. From the nation that changed the world with the invention of the train, an abject lesson in how not to specify large projects. In a hotly contested field, this current British shocker elbows its disgraceful money-burning way towards the country's worst.

Using George's Bathroom Solution

Here's a thirty-second ad currently seen on English telly. George, from a town I lost a weekend in once called Chesterfield, provides bathrooms aimed at the elderly. Whether he knew of the AIDA steer or not, he certainly nailed the grabbing of my Attention early. Here's

Teaching AI How To (Properly) Sell

Most of us have some element or other of AI in our selling routines by now. Even if it's from a starter pack of writing a particular piece of collateral or generating imagery, parsing info or scraping output. All well and good where it lets us, to drop

Opportunity Assay

assay (verb, noun): testing of a metal or ore to determine its ingredients and quality Let's start with that definition. Aware of it as I am in part child of Birmingham's famed Jewellery Quarter, I read about such process lately with the annual age-old Trial of