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4 Quick Skips Over The Deepism Inspirational Quote Turn Off Trap

A snippet I pic’d from Thursday’s Times print edition. Deepisms. Now there’s a delicious concept. Closely followed by the myriad personality flaws of those that consider them worthy. You can’t help but think on a litany of unwarranted mid-presentation quote slides. Sincerely projected. Supposedly sage words

Don't Repeat Jack Lemmon's Save The Tiger Launch Speech Disaster

Harry Stoner. The gripping 1973 role that earned Jack Lemmon his Best Actor Oscar. From the movie Save The Tiger. Essentially a pivotal 24 hours in the life of a fashion garment salesman. The wheels pretty much come off … but then, can a happy future emerge? There’s not many

Replace Crocodile Salespeople With Jerboa Ones

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/10/gator.jpg] What is a “crocodile rep”? Or if you prefer your jargon more Floridian-stroke-Amazonian, then your ‘alligator’ or ‘caiman’ salesperson’? Simple; > Big Mouth, Small Ears We’re all painfully familiar with the stereotyped bad name sellers have. Earlier this year,

Flooding The Zone

Sitting (ever attentively, naturally) through never-ending b-school lectures, I was often struck by the tension between the source of most business themes. Biology versus the military. The organic germination set against the need to conquer. As I write, current favour stands behind the nurturing. Anything else, whilst laying claim to

The Political Dilemma Of Personal Attendance

One for followers of British politics. Early 2016, the global steel price tanked. Vast Chinese over-supply as their internal demand slowed led them to dump steel across the planet. At less than cost. As a result one major global manufacturer, Indian conglomerate Tata, decided it had no choice but to

Finesse Your Ambition To Be Recognised As Reachable

A broken lock. On a cafe bathroom cubicle door. At a place I quite like. Handy location. Management that know the score. Although the waitrons can be a bit of a lucky dip, they mostly smile and the food often does its welcome job. Yet – as with anywhere of its

Mystic Gideon Foresells Shock. Or Severe Shock.

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a British referendum in a month’s time. Attack campaigning mars both positions so much we’re in need of a new superlative beyond ‘negative’. This week saw the most subterranean low so far. Bremainians got The Treasury to forecast what would

Ranieri's Leicester Fearless Champion Selling

[http://www.skysports.com/football/news/30385/10267972/leicester-win-premier-league-how-they-did-it-differently] Finding Nessie and Elvis alive were officially as likely to happen. Yet Leicester City beat 5,000 to 1 odds. They only went and won the Premier League. So much has been written trying to dissect how the miracle became reality.

What Sales Can Take From Robot Recruitment

Is there any one-time jobseeker who hasn’t been the victim of pyschometric testing? No. Whatever the practitioners insist, are they really more effective than the Carry On dating agency from 1970 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_Loving], Wedded Bliss, with their “computer matching” (which featured Sid Bliss

Can Your Selling Match The BBC Drive To Be Distinctive

Eddie Mair [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/2ygKVcq4LtT6nqx9zhdZxMJ/eddie-mair]. A newsreader reportedly earning an annual salary of £425,000. How could any of us aware of his talents begrudge him such whopping pay packet? Our ire rather aimed at execs who restrict his appearances across the BBC airwaves.