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Investor Phone Scammers Control Tell

> “those who won’t be controlled won’t be sold” One of the frequent, shouted phrases of an American boiler-room investment manager. Who kept changing his name as each new dodgy operation opened. Scamming people over the phone here with supposed telecoms company shares and ghost Floridian property lots in

How To Say No Like Embattled But Still Fighting Restaurateur

From a sector similarly smashed myself, it’s fascinating to read the efforts of indomitable chef Mark Hix. The hospitality trade has had a hammering. As frequent tales of pivoting online, takeaways and food trucks attests, there’s only so much you can do to substitute for both an inability

1957 Sony Salesrep Pocket Trick

[https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-b.html] The greatest contributor, enabler even, to the ‘glory’ of The Information Age? Many make the case for the transistor. Its first application was to replace the huge, cumbersome and over-heating valves that powered early radios. Here’s an excerpt from

LACMAC Mutual Way Forward Discovery

I’m indebted to an English recruiter of HR pros who kindly commented on my 2015 LACMAC post. They felt the emphasis demonstrated to me misrepresentative of how they themselves view the mnemonic. Their slant preference rather being; "The most important part of the ʟᴀᴄᴍᴀᴄ process, and the bit that

Crypto Crevasse

Investment boiler-room scammers appear to have a new guise. I sadly hear tales of similar such thievery driven by the current crypto craziness. Investing ‘experts’ keen to call you ASAP from an online enquiry. Promising arms length yet safe involvement. Super-returns guaranteed to come your way. Even if the contract

AUBA - Your Meeting AIDA Alternative?

There’s a school of thought suggesting that there are these four types of meeting destination [https://www.inc.com/entrepreneurs-organization/how-to-master-art-of-virtual-communication.html] ; 1. Awareness 2. Understanding 3. Believing 4. Acting Perhaps not the easiest of mnemonic to distinctly verbalise. AooBa? Still the idea that any meeting can only have

Pothole Business Case Proof

At the start of the year I blogged on an interesting business case example. The perhaps slightly unglamorous world of roadway maintenance yielded what looked like a sparkling example of the genre. Four months on, a remarkable proof has been delivered. England’s top digger manufacturer, JCB, trumpeted their new

Don't Let Sales Disappear Without A Darktrace

Cambridge-based cybersecurity ‘unicorn’, Darktrace, was reported by mainstream media [https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/04/12/darktrace-going-public-in-5-billion-london-ipo-claiming-200-million-revenue/?sh=675a1af54d58] to be having its recent float ambitions potentially thwarted by scandal. Last year, Forbes magazine exposed the allegedly unsettling approach to work of a key figure. One since sentenced

2-Column Scorecard Comparisons

> Pandemic Remote Normal Remote pic.twitter.com/roiwgFMBC6 [https://t.co/roiwgFMBC6] — Chris Herd (@chris_herd) April 11, 2021 [https://twitter.com/chris_herd/status/1381172255951044610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] In perhaps similar vein to the meme, ‘how it started how it’s going’, I happened across this tweet from

Newspaper Ad Shows Testimonial Dark Age Remains

[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9347353/Lifeline-lockdown-Want-small-business-countrys-biggest-website-Heres-how.html] The headline of the promotional article containing this testimonial was upfront; Want YOUR small business to be on the country’s biggest website? A smalltown deli had both expanded its location reach and ‘pivoted’ product offerings during lockdowns. They’d spent