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[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/10/20120728_202318.jpg] This pic is where I had a tremendous haircut, deep in Singapore’s Chinatown earlier this year. The other day I went to an old-school South African barbers. Strangely, both cost exactly the same. Dry cut short back and

So, your name can influence you in ways you didn’t realise. In a line that even comedy writers would avoid, this came to light after someone came across… > “a paper on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology which was written by J W Splatt and D Weedon”

I caught Skynews’ foreign correspondent Stuart Ramsay talking away overlooking the Strait of Hormuz just now. Tension are high in the Gulf, what with Iran playing up and this particular pinch point privy to a strong American naval presence to, among other things, safeguard the 20% of world oil that

Here’s an interesting concept I learned courtesy of China’s first aircraft carrier launch. Without any planes. Welcome to the club. Ahem. The idea is the typical totalitarian game of flex military muscle and generate jingoism, á la 1984. In which ridiculously the only Western player remains America. If

Here’s a concept that I suspect holds back many a salesperson in their ceo-ambitions. I enjoyed an Asian pint or two with a global, English high-up techie who told me about what happened at a recent corporate community day he enjoyed. You know the kind of thing. Everyone leaves

More extreme weather events for climate change deniers to grapple with. This time across much of the UK. Worst floods in a generation. Again. I caught the flooding quango chief exec talking about managing both prevention and impact. He was rather good. He described what they term Blue Flashing Light

In the aftermath of the latest riot-inducing how-dare-you-offend-my-faith global nonsense, someone with a unique insight into such idiocy gave a fascinating interview I caught the other day. Author Salman Rushdie suffered death threats after The Satanic Verses. A masterpiece by all informed accounts. He described how with it, he sought

Plenty of soundbite-sized clips were all over the telly and web these past few days of the Facebook founder’s first public utterings [http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/zuckerberg-wrote-all-2179-words-of-facebooks-s-1-founder-letter-on-his-phone/] since the IPO. I was struck by how many times he stated what he considered to be the Facebook mission;

You go to someone you truly feel will have their lives changed by your wares. You pitch the big picture. You’re really pumped up. But rather than inpsire, you daunt the prospect. The big picture is scary, too big, less a mere picture more a sky-filling tapestry. Consequently, they

I was delighting in the culture of a company I was working with recently. When it comes to email, they approach it like text messaging. Particularly in the early stages of the project, I received no mails longer than a single sentence. I naturally applauded such concise dealings. They never