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Which Bids Make Your Olympic Podium?

During the electric quarter-finals session of the Rio rugby 7s, it was suggested to the Englishman coaching the much fancied Fijians that his first goal must have been achieved by qualifying for a medal match. After a dismissive but polite sigh, he shrugged, “the only goal is the Gold”. For

Gegenselling

With the bi-annual failure fest for an Englishman that is each international football tournament done, taking stock of the club season just completed there is only one real story. Yet in the wings perhaps this next coming season’s fairytale is already taking shape. Twelve months ago I was privileged

3 Intellectual Jokes That Cream Your Sales Numbers

It’s silly season in the English media. The rapacious buzzfeedification of which leads to articles like 14 jokes only intellectuals really understand [http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/14-jokes-only-intellectuals-will-really-understand--bygkJDJeyvb] . Ever happy to jockey a news trend for salesjacking, here’s three you can use in the field to get

What's Your Project 56?

I’ve happened to be in countries other than my birthland during an olympiad. I didn’t imagine I could watch quite so much table tennis when in Singapore. Or root so loudly for the Silver Ferns ladies basketballers in New Zealand. Or be so infuriated by the refusal to

Don't Copy HP Launch Selling Print

Earlier this decade I happened across a piece of internal HP collateral. Their Sales Guide for a latest printer. One of the global giant tech outfits. The money they splash on ‘marketing’ possibly not even available to a crony of one of the current 50 dictators suppressing [http://planetrulers.com/

Does Your Client Contact Record Fail Marriage Breakdown Test

The Mail Online’s relentless deluge of relationship “tips” stretched last week to listing someone’s “pHD” (sic) on the maths of why couples split. The top finding? > “You have six good experiences together for every bad one” So, six in every seven ‘experiences’ should be ‘good’. For a

Even Global Consultants Suffer Useless Engagement

[https://www.instagram.com/boozallen/] The above is an (29 July 2016) instagram posting by Booz Allen [https://www.instagram.com/boozallen/;p style="text-align: center;">] Hamilton. The account strap; “Telling our #BoozAllen story through photographs”. Then first, what about the photo they posted here? My views

Sing Music's Answer To The New

I can imagine the b-school essay; The music industry is a poster child for all that can go wrong with capitalism. Discuss. It’s difficult to make a case for any stakeholder to have remained unshafted by them. Perhaps that exam question would ask to ‘explain and assess’ the famous

Your Bid Risk Register Needn't Be 471 Years In The Making

[http://www.maryrose.org/] The Mary Rose. Ye olde English warship. Which sank in 1545. Much of the hull stayed submerged in mud until 1982. With huge fanfare a three-year salvage operation born from two-decade hope raised it from the murky Solent waters. It’s taken until 2016 for the

MBA In A Week Push For Change

[http://www.inaweek.co.uk/] An independent English bookstore chain went big this month in their business section on the kind of quick fix nonsense I loathe. A series of “[insert enticing discipline] in a week” guides were sadly prominent. I frown to report these included a pamphlet – for that’