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Cricket Captain Think Ahead Art

> “Captaincy is the ability to think ahead of play, not be left responding to it.” As the latest saviour of English cricket takes the helm, one of the many broadsheet opinion pieces cited this eminent wisdom. Courtesy of the sage that was Richie Benaud. Despite being Australian, much loved the

Vampire Energy

Electricity prices are presently rocketing around the world. I read reports from England featuring such frights as a whopping fivefold increase in some energy bills. News sites teem with tips on how to reduce the unwelcome incursion sapping your disposal income. One such steer involves the slaying of vampire energy.

Zoom Panes; Pt 4 Windows

"windozsh" Here I try to curate unusual examples of windows as video backdrops from rolling news slots. The general rule though, is for our business calls to avoid window intrusion as much as possible. Let's start with a rare sighting of night-time window on the world, courtesy of a music

Client Lifetime Somatic Mutations

What determines any particular species of animal's lifespan? From a team of Cambridge scientists, we learn the previous theory - body size as proportional to life expectancy, known as Peto's Paradox - must now evolve. The new hypothesis being that; > "lifespan is inversely proportional to the somatic mutation rate". In

Vranyo in Sales

vranyo :: the Russian tactic of saying outrageous things and expecting to get away with them. Here's another definition, via glossophilia [https://glossophilia.org/2018/09/vranyo-a-previously-untranslatable-russian-word/] ; > “You know I’m lying, and I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know, but I go ahead

Billion-Dollar Tender Fiasco

The UK public sector somehow presided over a shocking IT procurement. The postal service bought a new accounting system. For the independent 'moms 'n pops' shopkeepers who ran small sub-post offices. The result? “the worst miscarriage of justice in recent British legal history". After a string of wrongful convictions, livelihoods

Zoom Booths; Pt 3 Cars

Hello Road Warriors. For many years we've been phoning from our motors. Can we now do the occasional video call from our treasured vehicles too? Well. The answer - provided we are not actually driving at the time - could be found from these examples. Perhaps then, the right place

Zoomscapes so far of the 20s; Pt 2 OBs

Outside Broadcasts. You ever been on a telephone conference call when outside? Then you'll know the travails of pressing the number for the 'mute' key when you want to toggle between your vital utterings. Else the whistling wind, street bustle or car engine surrounding you will make everyone mad with

Your Manifesto Client

Well, yesterday's crunch match was a thriller. Savour two teams in such elite, prolonged and era-defining rivalry. The football match - the prelude to which prompted yesterday's [https://salespodder.com/worlds-best-football-coach-understands-folly-of-chasing-results/] post - ended in an honourable 2-2 draw. Although as a neutral, I think it's fair to say the

Trophies Themselves Don't Create Special Happiness

Spaniard Pep Guardiola has redefined football. Now in a battle of the ages with rival boss, German Jurgen Klopp, the pair pit wits against each other later today. Surely the current best two sides in the world. Manchester City host Liverpool in what is unsurprisingly dubbed this season's EPL title