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Designing Your Own Moon Landing Mission Patch

Very much enjoying the mass of #moonlanding50 documentaries as we hit this momentous anniversary. The image up-top takes the stars from the Flat Earth Society (I know!) and puts them in the two main colours of the circular bands around Apollo 11’s badge. This alone, in your own colours

Easy To Slip Up On Distinguish Yourself Question

Amazing what you can catch on a company’s reception area telly. This one happened to be showing a rolling news channel. Thankfully not the tax funded state broadcaster’s. A no-frills airline offshoot, Easy Hotel chief exec Guy Parsons must’ve been relishing the glorious pr coup of airtime

Once Twice Better

Project 56 [http://salespodder.com/whats-your-project-56/] today bears fruit. Three years ago I blogged on the ambition of incredible swimmer Adam Peaty. We sellers could do well from embracing his approach to breaking a barely human barrier. Today, he cracked that Rio Olympics borne aim. At the current World Champs

Ignition For Your Sellernauts Lift Off

There’s a famous tale of involvement with which many moons ago I was regaled by a b-school lecturer. The way I first heard it, a manual labourer was busy scrubbing the outside of the Saturn V launch super-rocket with a long-handled brush. A passing dignitary asked what they were

A New Presentation Climate

[https://news.sky.com/story/science-storms-and-protests-behind-climate-crisis-11744227] Another week, another [http://salespodder.com/plastic-problem-pitching/] climate change journalist thread. London based Sky News broadcast their latest series of eco-reports, called A New Climate. The header image above struck me for being the type of three-way horizontal bar split readily adaptable for a

Express Yourself Like Cricket World Title Winners

[https://www.ecb.co.uk/video/1279402/highlights-england-win-the-icc-men-s-cricket-world-cup] > #ExpressYourself The more details that emerge around the work that went into the England cricket team’s 50-over World Cup triumph, the more you marvel. I can imagine so many an outfit – sport or Sales – being roundly dismissive of having a

Pod Lennon Wall

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennon_Wall_(Hong_Kong) target=] Well done the people of Hong Kong. Peaceful protest (apart from when perhaps agent provocateurs infiltrated) saw the abandonment (for now) of a chilling human rights restricting Bill. Defiantly assembled vertical fields of sticky note mosaics [https://www.reuters.com/

World Champion Cricket Values

> “Our values as a team include the words ‘courage’, ‘respect’, and ‘unity’, symbolising the three lions on our cap, and taking that cap forward across all three formats and all squads.” So explained (short-form) England Cricket Captain Eoin Morgan. Alongside colleague (& Test skipper) Joe Root at the Shangri-La

Can IPO Prospectus Graphics Give Your Slides A Lyft?

This is in effect the title slide from the flotation prospectus of ‘ride-hailing app’ Lyft. The ‘y’ by the way, apparently standing for “why”. I know… As “mission statements” go, it’s sadly a shocker. All hail … the personal jetpack! Leaving the b-school Strategy module lesson to one side, does

The Hook Of A Restaurant Reviewer

[https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2019/may/18/jay-rayner-i-have-no-time-for-exclusionist-food-fads] I can be gripped by good reviewers. From captivating political sketch writers (Quentin Letts sadly currently neutered behind a paywall), to movie reviewers [http://salespodder.com/how-to-critique/] and the world of dining out assessors. From whom, Giles Coren has been a