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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

20% of us are apparently procrastinators. On my last day in Blighty for a while, I caught a Radio 4 show on this topic. There have been some successful people so afflicted. Author Douglas Adams was famously twelve years late on one particular book deadline. It’s difficult to see

I caught the always entertaining pop-Prof Brian Cox on a morning radio slot today answering crazy listener questions on science, the universe and everything. He dropped a couple of cool lines. > We can only answer questions to the best of our knowledge, there are no absolute truths in science,

More from reality telly. This time, England’s Hotel Inspector. In the promotional run up to her latest series, she teases us with her ten biggest bugbears [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/9477339/Hotel-pet-hates-from-towel-art-to-bath-butler-service.html] . * Tatty frontages * Light distraction * Tip expectations * Mealtime interruptions * Coffee problems * Towel art * Cleanliness * Bath