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What Does Best Working with a Corporate Psychopath Share with Optimal Selling?

I've lately seen a coincidental flurry on workplace hazards when dealing with tricky people. From the angry likely being more successful to how narcissism supposedly greases those often murky career wheels. And here's another. Given that roughly one in a hundred people are supposedly psychopaths, that quintet of (similar, save

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What's Your Space's New Product Rate?

Here's some intriguing stats from a major UK retail sector. As reported by Harry Wallop back in Dec 23; 'Mintel ... figures show that ['23YTD] only 16pc of food and drink launches have been genuinely new products (rather than reformulations or new flavours), down from 21pc in 2019 and 40pc in

Sell Me The Dream

Friday morning on the airwaves I heard 'Imran' win five thousand of some local pesos. As part of a promo, his challenge was to ring in to a radio show and pitch some kind of ice bath plunge thang. "What are you selling?" Asked the ringmaster, then given the name

The Unagenda'd Sales Meeting

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gapingvoid Culture Design Group (@gapingvoid) For any Sales meeting, having an agenda is best-practice. My hunch though, is that only less than one-in-ten ever get one drawn up. Starting off with a vibe of, 'let's just have a chat' isn't typically

Failure To Respond Will Be Taken As A Resignation

pic.twitter.com/SilB4gbF0O — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2025 I don't think it's getting political to suggest half of people judged this meme posted in the week cool, the other half not so cool. Even then, some might offer the corrections of 'just over' and 'just under' half. In

70pc Of Human Behaviour Is Determined By Your Environment

... so how's yours? I came across the stat of this post's title above from Owen Eastwood. A hugely in demand 'performance guru'. With record across sport, art and commerce non pareil. The label Environment refers to pretty much everything that surrounds you. Physical, mental, social. A key focus he promotes

Exclusive Party Planner Guide To Memorable Meetings

Bronson van Wyck knows all about first world problems. As party planner to the rich and famous - starting out with infamous socialite and Winston Churchill's daughter-in-law when American ambassador to Paris - you'd be forgiven for thinking such elite circles have little to do with us mere hoi polloi.

WFH Rate Remains Stubbornly Set

There's a great many reasons why our selling video skills must be honed. For one, the medium is not going away. Enterprise selling has long embraced the 'remote'. Videoing its modern-day extension. The ability to hold meetings over video ought be a pillar of productivity improvements that make a real

Loading Odds of Primacy-Recency Choice

I've noted a fair amount of PR across the airwaves of a sporting confessional. The Not-So Secret Football Agent spills buckets of beans from behind-the-scenes shenanigans of a now past Wild West era. Anecdotes galore flow from former player turned dealmaker Barry Silkman. One catching my ear, involved a common

Ups & Downs Writ Large Slide

Adapted from a deck I helped out with this week. Positioned as a platform for collaboration solution creation between vendor and buyer. As part of this process, you must jointly verify viability of your emerging project. During pre-meet prep, an outline list of seven items likely to be affected arose.