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Pre-Match Prep

65yo football commentator gets demoted from his 1998 appointment as a broadcaster’s Number One to its Number Two. Leaving aside any fervent belief that nobody should hold the top job for twenty-two years, whether ageism is running amok or what ought really constitute news nowadays, there is something positive

What Do You Do With A Problem Like Xi?

The baying mob are on their cancelling march. Pitchforks in hand, charging through the cyber streets. Often through anonymous mobilising of a tiny group of intolerant belligerent extremists and witchfinder generals positioning themselves as the general public. Some targets perhaps worthy. Way too many others though – whether they be young

Teams Promoted App Icon Gallery

[/content/images/wordpress/2020/07/ms-teams-add-a-tab-app-icon-collage-500gr.jpg] The inferior video conference product Teams, unsurprisingly from Microsoft, suffers compared to alternatives. Functionality, usability and speed are all bettered elsewhere. Which is noteworthy because I was a fan of being on their NetMeeting offering in this space, some twenty years ago… When

Fish Unhooked

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2020/07/fish-postcard-crop-aadj.jpg] I heard a story about a New York lawyer. Proudly displaying a jokey framed pic behind him, above his desk. A fish with a hook in its mouth, alongside the slogan, ‘if I hadn’t opened my mouth I wouldn’

Vested Interest Pressures

The world’s housing market is broken. Whether from an economy developed or developing. There are simply too many people chasing too few dwellings. More people born that can be coped with, less wanting to give up second homes or not able to move out or on. In England, a

Your Client's Five Essentials

One travesty of lockdown was the huge extra profits flowing to the supermarkets. These huge – in some cases global – mega-chains drive many unwelcome effects of Big Food. Whilst protesting the public should not be so squeamish as they supposedly drive prices down. A claim demolished by the reality of quality

Mute By Keyword

I came across a fascinating piece of social media management. In this case, available on Twitter. It helps users avoid many of the ills which that platform seems to attract battering your mental wellbeing. In the worst case, the bombardment of abuse from bots, trolls or wumao (China’s 50

Enlighten Statistical Darkness

When making a decision have your prospects ever been in ‘statistical darkness’? I learn of this intriguing state given the life-and-death calls being made by authorities around the world against a threat for which they have pretty much no stats on which to lean. The perilous state of resulting policy

Half Plus

Yet another fascinating lesson in branding and sloganising from pandemic response. The UK government handling of the coronavirus today’s source. On 23 June, Premier Boris Johnson announced a widely trailed easing of lockdown restrictions. Hibernation is ending. Pubs can open in ten days. Let the country rejoice. England’s

Document Section Headers & Titles

[https://kaizen.co.uk/] I came across a link to a ‘white paper’ from this online video production outfit. For over a decade now there’s been a movement, as evidenced by people promoting such as ‘infodocs’, that business documents should more closely resemble the look and feel of glossy