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How Could We Make It More Greek?

In a cafe talking through project details with someone, a lady close by was in a rush. Barely sipped her enormous smoothie, but suddenly had to go. Asking the manager for a takeaway cup, the apron-clad hipster went for a spot of client engagement. Or pulling. Either way, his chat

Cherish Early Brushes With Success

A definition, from photographer Erik Kessels; > “early brush with success” …aka… failure I was pleased to discover this slant from snatches of his Cape Town Design Indaba [http://www.designindaba.com/videos/conference-talks/erik-kessels-power-failure] presentation. Further digging uncovered a delightful book of photos. Failed It [https://www.creativereview.co.

How To Win Your Deal Like The CIA Catch Their Spy

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/12/the-double-cia-timeline-wideshot.jpg] Another CIA visual timeline. Albeit caught quickly in front of the telly. I blogged in 2012 on how Homeland’s Carrie [http://salespodder.com/carries-homeland-timeline/] obsessed with her enemy within by way of a lovely pinboard. More recently I came

Little Progress On MWC Slide Runway

One reason I look in on Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress each year at this time, is not because it’s the leading event for mobile mega launches. Rather, these are the people with the biggest budgets, so their slide design should be where we are all headed too. Last

The Perils Or Marvels Of Salesy McSalesface

[https://twitter.com/nasa] Nasa must have known what was coming. There’s potential for life in a Goldilocks Zone a mere 40 light years away. That’s 700,000 earth years at our present max travel speed. Around a star named Trappist (after the initials of the Chilean telescope

The Dox Trap

The latest eword. It came to mind from last week’s fruity Spook-y “whorehouse [http://salespodder.com/4-deal-intel-tips-from-secrets-spookmeister/]” wisdom. The definition pictured above hails from googling. Dox. A phonetic abbreviation of documents, as in docs (or even lifting from the dreaded Microsoft file extension, docx). The idea being that you

Ditch Your First Dozen Corporate Overview Slides

I lapped up seeing a good old corporate overview the other day. In a crowded coffee shop no less. Fuller than normal I suspect, given the torrential downpour outside at the time. The cacophonous surrounds did not perturb the pitcher though. Tablet propped up, the modern-day site seller swiped along

Fun Momentum Defuses Terrorists

The footballing nation and beyond is having their say on the brutal sacking of Claudio Ranieri. Whether you have close interest in this or not, the thoughts of the team’s former performance psychologist are fascinating. Ken Way was shown the door once the fairytale title was won. Claudio, it

Shoot MWC Retro Star Bullets

For the past few years I’ve enjoyed looking in from afar at Barcelona when what’s become the global launch conference takes place that is the Mobile World Congress. So who’s this year’s standout star? Wearables? Augmented reality? The Internet of Things? 5G? No. It’s a

Slaying Status Quo Inertians

Universal Basic Income. Heard of it? An idea from Left of Centre. ‘UBI’ self-labels as supposedly ‘progressive’. Government gifts every single adult enough to pay the bills with food on the table and likely a telly. Twelve grand should do the trick. The Swiss even held a referendum on it