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> The business climate has entered a next-two-hours era, which I call the Age of Flux So goes the assessment of a one-time weather pattern researcher. Sometimes weather can be accurately predicted for days ahead, other times, you’re wild guessing even a couple of hours away. He means that

I’m currently in South Africa. A place where all the locals constantly moan about the shoddy levels of customer service nationwide. With good reason too. From disinterested government bodies and vacant parastatals, right through to corner cafes and so-called ‘service’ outfits, the standard is indeed generally well below that

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/01/20120117-125235.jpg] This was my view when sipping a rare cappuccino in a local Cape Town cafe, two chaps walked in and approached the manager with this. > We’re just doing a local health and safety survey in the area. Do

Is it still the silly season? I could hardly believe that I wondered across this broadsheet article. The topic of, ahem, male anxiety was not quite what I was expecting, courtesy [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9020386/Male-sex-life-suffers-if-partner-is-too-close-to-his-friends.html] of Cornell University research. We chaps need our own

Can you believe it. I stayed in on Friday night. And watched terrestrial telly. Please don’t tell my younger self. All I got to see were old US crime shows and a generally lacklustre local South African magazine show. Trying to be in the mould of an Entertainment Today,

I blogged the other day [http://salespodder.com/are-you-more-than-a-salesperson/] about Groupon revelling in their self-description of being ‘the fastest ever growing company’. With several copycat operations setting up in their wake, it’s likely we’ve all been hit by the coupon bug. Whether it be offers constructed specifically for

[http://www.williampowers.com/] I caught a radio interview with an American chap called Bill Powers [http://williampowersbooks.com] the other day. He was moved to change his life when he identified the drain of the “vanishing family trick”.  People that ought be really close fade away from each other

I’d like to think it’s quite often an attractive lady approaches me in public and asks if I’m married. When this happened yesterday, sadly the woman in question was on duty selling skin care products in a shopping mall concourse. Moisturiser is not one of my priorities