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Here’s a cheeky acronym picked up from an Aussie contract Miller-Heiman trainer. We’ve all heard the mantra, “never assume anything”. Then someone writes the word on a whiteboard; ass-u-me. And says to ‘assume’ makes an ‘ass’ out of ‘u’ (you) and ‘me’. Well, now you can add s-t-a-b

Bring Something To Life

A friend of mine recently enjoyed some hardcore media training. It was delivered by a regional CEO of Ogilvy & Mather. We got to talking about what was good about the session. Turns out the chap showed a video of Steve Jobs. It was from perhaps the mid-90s. He was

Get Blood Flowing

Here’s something quirky that happened at a sales kick-off event I was recently at. I’d witnessed this kind of thing before a couple of times, but had completely forgotten about it. And how good it is. You can imagine the stage. The first post-lunch (and by the way,

Triskaidekaphobia

So, today is Friday [http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2001/jul/13/netnotes.derekbrown] the Thirteenth. It’s how I learned about the bizarre word which is the title of this blog. It means the fear of the number 13. I came across it when one broadsheet pondered [http:

Daley Thompson Credo

Olympic fever grips my homeland. Here’s a former Gold winner briefly reveal how he thinks [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/credo-daley-thompson-7920008.html] . Decathlete Daley Thompson. > If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way – either from inertia or prejudice – and

You're A Loser. Unless...

Organised religion. I share the bulk of my compatriot’s Dawkinsian outlook on these things. Yet each to their own. Except, it seems, when that ‘own’ is Scientology. The press have fallen over themselves to lambast these guys in the wake of the TomKat split. Even locals in Bali talked

Boiler Room Bank Warning

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/07/bank-boiler-room-warning-letter.jpg]Here’s a letter someone I know recently received from their bank. A huge global finance institution. And therefore one to be hated by just about everyone for their greed, deceit and arrogance. So, boiler room outfits are evil, unscrupulous

Hot Seller Qualities

[http://www.tvgoodsinc.com/kevin_harrington.cfm] Here’s a shopping tv infomercial pioneer. According to the above-linked bio, > “Since [1984] he has been involved with over 500 product launches that resulted in sales of over $4 billion worldwide with 20 products that reached individual sales of over $100

Higgs Boson Discovery Slide

What would you have searched for with Seven Billion Quid? Well, those boffins at Cern in Geneva seem to have used the cash to go and find the wotnot that gives us ‘mass’. I know this because I saw the resulting powerpoint slide. It was duly plastered all over the

It's Company Policy

I hate Nike. I can’t believe I have just spent $500 on their kit. I shall never again be buying their rubbish. Nike sucks. They own Cole Haan. I recently went into their Columbus Circle store in Midtown New York. I left with two pairs of shoes that will