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Asymmetric Warfare

I caught Skynews’ foreign correspondent Stuart Ramsay talking away overlooking the Strait of Hormuz just now. Tension are high in the Gulf, what with Iran playing up and this particular pinch point privy to a strong American naval presence to, among other things, safeguard the 20% of world oil that

On-Message Prompt Sheets

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/10/uefa-europa-league-prompt-sheet.jpg] There isn’t a single right-minded football fan that talks well of any, that is any, of the ‘governing’ bodies. One lucky journo found [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/europa-league/9589131/Uefa-urge-clubs-to-talk-up-prestigious-and-dramatic-Europa-League-in-attempt-to-enhance-competitions-image.html] a delightful piece of

Carrie's Homeland Timeline

I’m almost ashamed to admit it, but I did rather fall for the Emmy-winning American political thriller Homeland. With Season Two kicking off just now, I re-watched the final two. Gripping stuff. In the penultimate episode, the lady spy colour codes all data to hand. Her boss then arranges

Timing Gone To Pot?

Lovin’ the Cricket T20 World Cup over in Sri Lanka. As usual the best two commentators are Nasser Hussain and David Lloyd. The former for his rampant analysis, the latter for boyish enthusiasm. Nasser made a great observation the other day when someone ‘played themselves back into nick’ during a

Greenwater Or Bluewater Navy

Here’s an interesting concept I learned courtesy of China’s first aircraft carrier launch. Without any planes. Welcome to the club. Ahem. The idea is the typical totalitarian game of flex military muscle and generate jingoism, á la 1984. In which ridiculously the only Western player remains America. If

Herding Cats

Here’s a concept that I suspect holds back many a salesperson in their ceo-ambitions. I enjoyed an Asian pint or two with a global, English high-up techie who told me about what happened at a recent corporate community day he enjoyed. You know the kind of thing. Everyone leaves

Blue Flashing Light Syndrome

More extreme weather events for climate change deniers to grapple with. This time across much of the UK. Worst floods in a generation. Again. I caught the flooding quango chief exec talking about managing both prevention and impact. He was rather good. He described what they term Blue Flashing Light

Your Bibi Bomb

[/content/images/wordpress/2012/09/netanyahu-bibibomb-un-presentation-2012-09-28.jpg] > “If these are the facts — and they are — then where should a red line be drawn? A red line should be drawn right here.” …and with that the talker got out a huge marker pen, and drew the big thick red line

Project Plan Charts

How do you explain a project plan? All those separate activities at all sorts of different times, some of which can happen concurrently, others only once a previous one is complete. You could list them. In almost bullet form text. I hope you don’t do this too often. (Although

Salman's Two Tests

In the aftermath of the latest riot-inducing how-dare-you-offend-my-faith global nonsense, someone with a unique insight into such idiocy gave a fascinating interview I caught the other day. Author Salman Rushdie suffered death threats after The Satanic Verses. A masterpiece by all informed accounts. He described how with it, he sought