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A collection of 259 issues

Your Hollywood Review Bottom Line

As an Englishmen powerfully brought up on The Dunkirk Spirit, watching this week’s Christopher Nolan cinema treatment of WW2’s 1940 successful evacuation was always bound to strafe my to-do list. Then the near-universally glowing reviews poured forth, cracking like popcorn from heated kernels. Of the many I read

Maybe Your Prospect Is A Neophyte

John McEnroe get his neos mixed up. I made the mistake of watching a live match from the London leg of the tennis Grand Slams. The one-time superbrat was on the mic and passed comment on when the authorities (thankfully, belatedly) reacted to the step-change increased athletic and technological power

Are You Ruining Presentations To Make TED Founder Scream?

TED curator Chris Anderson writes from a deep well of killer knowledge about giving presentations [http://blog.ted.com/2013/07/24/chris-anderson-on-what-makes-a-great-talk-great/] . He coaches speakers for up to 9 months in advance of their 18-minute delivery. When it comes to corporate spiel, here’s a sample gem; > Don’t

Is Your Pitch Transformative Or Accelerative?

I was recently struck by the analysis of a lecturer in contemporary politics. Newcastle Uni’s Dr Martin Farr had an interesting opinion on the impact of war. > “The question to ask with wars is always, ‘are they transforming things, revolutionising things, or are they merely accelerating existing processes?’ And

Follow Focus Of Eccentric Inventor

I hope I’m not being too unkind labelling Trevor Baylis [http://windupradio.com/trevor.htm] as eccentric. Yet having recently seen the chaotic state of his houseboat he does seem to fit the madcap genius inventor stereotype. I’d heard of him before. When he conjured up the wonderful

Happy Birthday Cupcake

[https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/azlitamasammanis/] from a batch of fifty made in what may have been Malaysia for a Dyson engineer possibly by the wonderfully talented baker, ‘azlita masam manis [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/azlitamasammanis/]‘ (sweet ‘n sour Azlita?) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was delighted to taste this

Have You Six Security Features Like The New Pound Coin

> Change is coming …the marketing slogan for the introduction of what was trumpeted as; > the most secure coin in the world. Referring to the dodecagon which is the freshly minted one pound sterling. The drumrolling around this launch certainly enriches the general solution sales pitch. The previous round £1 was

All-New Taxi For Chief Gubbey

0619hrs. BBC’s flagship breakfast radio news show, Today. Wednesday 22 March 2017. A Business segment. Chris Gubbey was introduced as chief exec of the London Taxi Company. Makers of the capital’s “iconic” black cab. He clearly had some news to share. The correspondent began with a simple,“…what

Local Differences Ignored

Here’s a not untypical tale I became privy to through a leading light in the electrical market. US-owned lighting company Thorn decided to unleash (or should we say rather, foist) some new products on their European division. ‘Go sell, no excuses’. The usual kind of MNC story. After a

The Perils Or Marvels Of Salesy McSalesface

[https://twitter.com/nasa] Nasa must have known what was coming. There’s potential for life in a Goldilocks Zone a mere 40 light years away. That’s 700,000 earth years at our present max travel speed. Around a star named Trappist (after the initials of the Chilean telescope