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Music to the perennially puerile male ear. No less a light than top psychology Professor Robin Dunbar this week states that for the sake of our wellbeing [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2469485/Mens-wellbeing-depends-meeting-friends.html] , we men must spend more time in the pub with our mates. The man’

No, that isn’t a typo. Just a bit of “Singlish” (Singapore English that adds the ‘s’ to ensure sheep gets a plural). This was a phrase that came up in conversation about whether sales people should concentrate only on new business or account management. This is a classic debate.

There’s so much to admire about America. Yet they’ve made a habit during my lifetime of regularly undoing much of this good. The Second Amendment. The Global Policeman. The Health Approach. The Sporting Myopia. The We Will Do Whatever Ourselves Despite What Others Have Done Or Learned teenage

Here’s a question that can tend to get overlooked. For each salesperson, how many pre-sales helpers should there be? You know the kind of person. Normally a techie. Often with a word like ‘engineer’ on their business card. I’ve known places where it’s almost a 1:1

UK political party conference season draws to a close. In widely reported remarks, the top finance minister, Chancellor George Osborne, was asked to respond to a spurious tabloid frontpage headline. It was from a Left and therefore vehemently-opposed-to-the-current-government newspaper. It ranted that his latest policy initiative, dubbed “work-for-dole” was “back

Here’s a phrase that’s been around a while. I was reminded of it when reading about Silicon Valley’sapproach [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/perks-for-employees-and-how-google-changed-the-way-we-work-while-waiting-in-line-8830243.html] to building layout and the like(*). > HiPPO (stands for) highest paid person’s opinion Apparently, ‘empowerment of individuals