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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

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

So the supposedly quiet few hours at the beginning of the year is often a chance for salespeople to get their new year in shape. Go through that inbox. Sort your admin. Fix up your funnel. There’s always something you can ‘tidy’, right? TheInbox Zeroconstruct garners entertaining press. Here’

I heard an entertaining veteran shopkeeper recently. With a message of particular relevance to looking afresh at your forecast as the new year dawns. Peter Williams just enjoyed another retail success. This time taking one to an IPO. His speciality though appears to be the turnaround. Most famously with Selfridges.

Never let it be said that I’m not up with the zeitgeist. I learnt a new word this week. It seems to have been around almost a decade. And a portmanteau to boot. Always entertaining. Here’s the two-thirds-reliable wiki; [https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/11/anticipointment-definition.

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/08/simpsons-clouds-oval-test.jpg] So looking up at the sky can give you an idea of what the weather might do for the next hour or two. Says tv meteorologist Lucy Verasamy who I heard earlier during Saturday’s Tea interval from The Oval