forecast funnel pipeline

Much chatter this week as Amazon sue 1,114 people who post fake reviews on its site. In the crosshairs I noted Tripadvisor’s notoriously lax reputation on hospitality industry defamation may be sharpening. They have three categories of fake reviewer; Boosters – false positive, normally from friends and family of

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/10/times-crime-survey-15-400x372.jpg] Half of all UK crimes are cyber. A whopping five million. My photo above, from the day’s London Times’ striking barchart depiction. Note that the UK “crime survey” is a deliberately separate counterbalance to police recorded figures. The previous

aka …The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Up Your Forecast. Marie Kondo is a lifestyle guru. 2½ million books sold on how to clear out your stuff. Incredible. I can see why though. As with any real expert, her delivery is indeed ‘magical’. Right down to how to properly fold

Given my recent discovery of an overdue change [http://salespodder.com/93-year-incumbent-fails-to-forecast-changing-weather/] in the English weather service, I lapped up book launch pr for psychologist Philip Tetlock [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_E._Tetlock]. I was delighted to learn of the study that made his name. In 20 years

The UK general election no longer exhibits such a stark left-right binary choice. Multi-party politics has somehow taken hold in the very first-past-the-post system specifically designed to avert the supposed euro-chaos thrown up by proportional representation. This reminds me that what we may often judge as a plain go/no-go

Travelling back from a meet, I radioed on three English artists discuss a renowned modern novel, Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple. Not my natural terrain, yet I enjoyed the debate around its Seattle school. Where no-one is allowed to fail. It trumpets only three grades. > S  – surpassing

An issue vexing British economists right now is how come UK employment is rising, with growth chugging along, yet productivity is falling. Heavens above, even the extended-lunch-wine-drinking, cinq à sept obsessed, public sector-dominated French exhibit higher productivity than the Brits. Possible explanations fail to convince; Firms’ hoarding labour, out of