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Gravitational Lensing

I've noted the gravitational pull on Sales before. In 2022 & 2016 for instance. Now add to these leanings the discovery of an ultra-massive black hole. The researchers from Durham University found something so vast as to be almost incomprehensible; 33 billion times larger than our sun. The

What 44pc of your Sales Skills will you Need to Change?

Whilst not an oracle we ordinarily ought pay particular heed to, the WEF's latest Future of Jobs report features the odd startling prediction. I guess they'd claim the Fourth Industrial Revolution they heralded seven years back has now accelerated into the public psyche due to the

Early Breakfast Radio on TV

How about some tips from the twilight? Above is presenter James Max from the London Bridge studios of Talk TV-stroke-TalkRadio. Twenty-seven minutes past five in the very much A.M. of Wednesday 3rd May 2023. He's doing a review of the day's newspapers. Having just snapped

Doc Completion Rate

Amazon Lord of the Rings prequel Rings of Power, which cost $465 million to get into the can and was released to widespread indifference ... had a 37 per cent completion rate in the US. Meaning the percentage of customers who started watching and made it through to the end. The

As Written By AI

Given reading with my own eyes AI hallucination when being told by ChatGPT-4 I'd written blog posts that I had not, I asked it to write a 400-word post on the false title it served up first. Here it is. Coming in three under the word count limit

When You Think About The Win

I read the words reported of (legendary, game changing) former Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger in the build-up to this week's EPL title decider with (genius, game changing) Pep Guardiola's present day Manchester City. In the aftermath of his club's defeat (nay, hammering), the journalist

26yo Tiktok-er Suggests Interview Close Clincher

"So based on the conversation we've just had, based on this interview, do you have concerns around my ability to perform this role? Or just any concerns about me as a candidate in general?" The TikTok post containing this job-seeking guidance garnered an impressive 3m views

The Ogilvy Switch

Oh our Marketing cousins. Seldom does an Enterprise solution salesteam's endeavour dovetail beautifully with the marketing department. I've blogged on this a ton down the years. Yet recent work touching on New Product Rescue exposed me to a merrie band of marketeers. Eager to dispel the

IMF Forecasting Fails

The International Monetary Fund is one of those nebulous quangos that both exerts undue influence across our world whilst simultaneously being wealthily rewarded for abject failure. C'est L'Elite. Their latest debacle revolves around national economic output predictions. To co-opt the famous phrasing of the much missed,

Cult Radio Hits Telly Breakthrough

A Face For Radio. As the man himself pictured likes to quip. Yet now his niche obsession, "The Unexplained", hits mainstream media in the form of a two hour Sunday late night TV [as broadcast in the UK, also streamed live on Youtube, at least] feast. Here, Howard