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proposals

A collection of 118 issues

Can Your Process Outcome Switcheroo Count?

Once upon a time I endured a rather dispiriting experience. An encounter with a superkeen young graduate, two years in the workplace. They delighted in telling me their prime, sole even, motivation was to earn mountains of money. I tried to encourage reflection from guided experience. To help perhaps rebalance

Stock Weight Of Your Bid

A three-tiered rating system can be applied in the world of stocks and shares. These labels can refer to individual shares as well as to the proportions of different sectors within a broader held portfolio. The terms overweight, equal-weight and underweight suggest a perceived value. For a single stock, its

Non-Papers Pre-Proposal Process Step Reminder Piggyback

The most reported negotiation on the planet as I blog sways between the EU & UK over Brexit, the US-China “Trade War” and ongoing reverberations from the elapsed Iranian Nuclear Deal. This week the former approaches its (latest) cold-sweaty deadline. The Eurocrats demand to see amended plans by certain dates. The

Does Your Prop Suffer From Wikipediitis?

> wikipediitis: when a documentary would’ve been better served as an annotated article This is a contemporary criticism of many a supposedly investigate look at a subject on-screen. When it merely recites talking head recollection, without story arc nor deeper context, and bloats the running time by plugging gaps with

Emoji Bullets Green Deal

I despair. Why oh why is this debate allowed to be hijacked? Is it because the overwhelming majority of the rest of us non-loons, whilst sharing passion for this issue, get on with doing something about in our own (how ever small) ways, without antagonising any supposed culprits by wrongly

Is Your Prestige Proposal Cover Chasing The Dream?

[https://www.instagram.com/p/BtJGyUlHcb-/] > “Chasing the dream inspires me” It’s rare that a Prop cover page makes headline news. This week gutter-to-glitz self-styled bad boy Irish cage fighter Conor McGregor took delivery of a £3m yacht. He shared a 20sec clip on instagram of him flicking through

Quest Of Worries

Oh dear. Our Richard’s at it again. The ten year anniversary of his first CNN International nightly show saw him back where it all started. WEF at Davos. As I’ve blogged many times, I do enjoy his reports from the annual Alpine Elite Retreat. It exposes so many

The Perils Of Sales Proposal Over-Engineering

I was recently moved by the Genovese bridge collapse [http://salespodder.com/your-maintenance-sell-upkeep/]. I note that there is a related, second project pincer that eats away at success. Over-engineering. Right through to build way more than required to enlarge both project and profit. It is this latter crime that strikes

Why You Must Make Your Levelised Business Case

Levelised costs intrigue me. Spelt levelized in American, I first came across this term related to energy costings [https://evcricketenergy.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/levelised-cost-of-electricity-what-is-this/] (for where there’s even a wikipedia entry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source]). The concept acknowledges that you never

Olympic Bid Backlash Project Cost Overrun Deflector

“Unlike cities hosting an Olympics, people are happy to sign up with us”. Imagine saying that on a call this month… This week yet another wannabe Olympic Host City saw a citizen’s revolt scupper civic leaders grand plans. Canada’s 1998 Winter Games venue Calgary returned [https://calgaryherald.com/