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Are You Serving In Bowls?

So a cafe in a business district I’ve been around always serves up its (often excellent) fayre in bowls. Even a sarnie. The other day I ordered the burger. Which arrived in a large enamel baking tray tin. I would have much preferred a flat dish. No-one could explain

Lifting The Pettifog

> “placing undue emphasis on petty details; petty or trivial” This week the Donny ‘trial’-fixated web is alive with the word pettifogging. It is too a slightly archaic, more legalese perhaps, term used to describe a quibble about petty points; > “without lifetime careers to preserve, congressmen would be

Do You Know Your Tiebreaker Justifier?

I am glad to learn about justifiers. These are that little something that suppliers of non-strategic items must show can happen beyond the mere performance of the product to smooth the purchasing decision their way. Typical justifiers feature extra service lengths that can be gone to. I particularly like the

Done, Doing

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/12/done-doing.jpg] So the other day I was party to a discussion on monthly management meetings. What structure they should follow was a keen topic of debate. People often expect there to be some magic form you can download and use. Fill

Team Good Better Best Exercise

With SKO season in full flow, when I run afternoons at a Sales Conference, I’ve learned to give the group a quick task before a natural break in proceedings. When I first did this, I evoked the wisdom of crowds to unearth how well the collective thought on a

How Klopp Stays On Top

An outrageous EPL season is now beyond half-time. The runaway leaders Liverpool having the best ever run of any team in Europe’s so-called Big Five leagues, ever. 21 wins and 1 draw after 22 games. What makes it perhaps even more notable, is that the team suffered crushing disappointment

Y2K Reminder On Hard vs Soft & Low-Risk Doomsters

Plenty of reminiscing around the twenty-year anniversary of the ‘beating’ of the Millennium Bug. The turn of the century curse on computer systems worldwide rendering Y2K potentially doomsday. I recall similar [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8400300.stm] a decade back too. Among the historical memory lanes

Reveal Your Guidance

Who says the media isn’t forever listicle dumbing down? Lucky we have sites that report the innards of Reddit. Specifically, curating inventions [https://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/28-things-that-should-be-on-every-street-corner-458810/] we really, really need in our lives. The above parking lines on walls surely a true winner. The number of times a

Facebook Unbelievable Campaign Findings

Here’s a fascinating paragraph from an internal Facebook memo. Labelled as Zuckerberg’s right-hand man by the media, Andrew Bosworth also posted publicly on their own investigation into “2016 US Presidential campaign interference”: > [The Trump campaign] weren’t running misinformation or hoaxes. They weren’t microtargeting or saying

Trend-Jacking

> I added sea-sand to the latest batch of peanut butter and labeled it enriched with organic marine silica. It’s selling like mad. An opening (made-up, I think) sample from a broadsheet columnist [https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/opinion/words-mean-what-ad-agency-wants-them-to-40215654] bemoaning us trampled consumers being deliberately ‘caught for