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quirky

ideas and experiences with a selling angle that come from left-field

Stand Out From The Sales Slush Pile

I caught a moving tribute from one best-selling author to another tonight. No sooner as given a few more months by cancer doctors, Iain Banks died. Fellow Scot Ian Rankin reflected with much fondness and admiration on his close pal. The story of how he’d got started was riveting.

Weekday Effect

[http://news.sky.com/story/1096723/death-likelier-due-to-weekend-hospital-care] Well, the second time in a fortnight (see also,Never Events [http://salespodder.com/never-events/]) my Sales brain has been inspired by possibly the world’s most welcomed (only because it is perceived as ‘free’), yet frustratingly dysfunctional organisation (because there’s precious

Pink Walled Disco Bedroom

Here’s a typical bank holiday post. I’ve got some admiration for the ad department of paint maker Dulux. The trademark dog is, and always has been, rubbish. Yet their recent run of ads have all been terrific. This being the latest 60 seconds of fun. I was at

Automated Call Handling Claptrap

I take back what I’ve long said about IT Managers. Well, maybe not all of it. In any case, here’s one that has thankfully confounded much of his brethren and done something profoundly useful and customer-facing. Website pleasepress1 [http://www.pleasepress1.com/] has gathered much positive media this

Never Events

[https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-never-events-list-for-2012-13] In Britain’s National Health Service, this is the name for mistakes that should never happen. (Only the NHS would have a logo for this, by the way.) There’s been 762 [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22366147] over past four years.

Responsibility And Sustainability Inevitable

Jim O’Neill is a currency speculator best-known as the inventor of the brics acronym. As he heads off into retirement, CNBC interviewed [http://www.cnbc.com/id/100707913] him. By way of retrospective, he naturally repeats much of what I’d enjoyably heard elsewhere. Chief among this was his

Molecular Gastronomy Whiteboards

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/05/insect-food-idea-w-board-i.jpg] [https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/05/insect-food-idea-w-board-ii.jpg] [https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/05/insect-food-idea-w-board-iii.jpg] Eating insects. Entomophagy [http://www.insectsarefood.com/what_is_entomophagy.html]. It’s the future. Apparently. If only us Westerners

Still No Room For Sales On Leading MBAs

I enjoy the occasional In Business from BBC Radio 4’s Peter Day [http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/worldbiz]. His latest half-hour examined The Battle of the Business Schools [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sd2n0]. He talked to the Deans of Boston’s finest, Harvard and Sloan.

How Are You Different

A chipper new entrant into the UK banking sector was doing the media rounds Friday. Despite claiming his institution was different, Shawbrook CEO Ian Hendersen still manages to look just like every other maligned banker in the land. Whereas a youngster takes a photo of their favourite popstar to the

Succession Planning Flawed

Two English news snippets this week past mentioned succession planning. One was the rather arrogant response of the retail grocer Sainsbury’s top man – he’s staying put for years apparently – and the other being a football manager leaving Man United. Their next guy seems to be deliberately chosen as