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Over Disclosure

More dishonest reps giving the rest of us a bad name. This time from the pension trade. So I learn from London’s Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/9627293/Dodgy-annuity-salesmen-should-be-hounded-out.html] that many an annuity seller fibs about the level of their client’s health so

Dr No Treatment

Bond. I was so relieved the reviews of the latest outing are good. In keeping with the 50-year old money printing franchise, the hype is loudly building ahead of Skyfall’s release. One such article looked at how many kills 007 made across each of the 22 movies. They used

What Do You Sell?

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/10/20120728_202318.jpg] This pic is where I had a tremendous haircut, deep in Singapore’s Chinatown earlier this year. The other day I went to an old-school South African barbers. Strangely, both cost exactly the same. Dry cut short back and

Nominative Determinism

So, your name can influence you in ways you didn’t realise. In a line that even comedy writers would avoid, this came to light after someone came across… > “a paper on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology which was written by J W Splatt and D Weedon”

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