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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

Awkward Admire-Respect Competition Question Handling

> I respect his children. She’s a fighter. To change his mind. To [not] answer the question. The final two held their tv debate for the British Party of Government leadership vacancy Tuesday night. The last question from the audience; > What do you admire about each other? Immediately

Plastic Problem Pitching

We’re suffocating our home, and smothering all those with whom we share it. Susie Cagle duly illustrates [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/23/all-the-plastic-ever-made-study-comic] the plastic produced predicament. Here’s a selection of her drawings with Sales presenting links. The first (above) is a stacked bar in

Polka Dot Dress SalesJack

I often find a cheeky remix-ripe design-leaning newsjack sales slide irresistible. Somehow, my feeds this weekend felt flooded with a ladies’ polka dot dress [https://www.zara.com/uk/en/printed-dress-p04886058.html?v1=14694309&v2=1143013] from Euro-giant Zara. At forty quid, quite the must-have Summer item it seems.

Trial Shift Objection Handle

> What is this, a trial shift at Nandos? I can hear that said in meeting rooms throughout the land following the shocking revelations that retail, mainly food serving, operations are getting in teens only to discard them within hours for their next “costless” worker on the false promise of

Humanist Approach To Buying Belief

[https://humanism.org.uk/] Which circle would you click? In selling as in life, beware broaching politics or religion. Even as the majority of people living today appear to have moved on far from organised “faith”, I learn of movements that try speeding up this direction. One such UK outfit

T-Shirt Slogan

Here’s an entertaining little session I ran the other day. A company sought to quicker shift a stalled new product. The thinking could equally apply to other scenarios. Such as when a new broom takes over and seeks to establish an amended direction. I flashed up on the big