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So evolution has long been thought down to Mutation and Selection. Yet now a third strand is proposed. It’s Co-operation. What’s it all about, and how can it help those that sell? At first it appears diametrically opposed to the view that competition somehow plays an integral part.

The phrase ‘split-screen presidency’ entered my consciousness for the first time in over a decade the other day. I originally heard it in relation to Bill Clinton’s war leader adulation for bombing evil regimes one minute, hounded panto villain for playing adult games with a cigar the next. Today

[http://www.nato.int] Who wants to run the recently created Libyan No Fly Zone? Both the Turks and Germans appeared to veto the idea of Nato doing so a couple of days ago. As a result, the Chair seemed to float the concept of adopting The Silence Procedure. BBC

A wonderful six minute insight into team based activity. And one with two keen tip for solution sales practitioners. 1. How do you ‘prototype’? If you think of prototyping in terms of checking the merits of what you propose often along the way, then this can reasonably be set next

In her March 2011 [http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&hl=en&q=bbc+are+we+still+evolving+video&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=] BBC Horizon programme, Alice Roberts found that natural selection is still working, even if we may well be

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazelle] An official definition. > Gazelle – a high growth business less than five years old You can blur edges by playing with what constitutes high growth, or what determines the precise five-year span, but the fact is as august a body as the OECD have

Travelling around catching a touch of talk radio, I came across the current voice [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-417222/Home-Counties-time-teller-gets-Speaking-Clock-gig.html] of the UK’s speaking clock. The mellifluous tones of Sara Mendes da Costa are well known, as she revealed each year there are over 60m calls

Any excuse for 80s music. I was present at a meeting that began to worryingly spiral down a negative slant. We’ve all had meetings with clients or internal resource that gets stuck on a mainly irrelevant minus when you know the pluses are what’s important. I succeeded in

Gaba is an interesting chemical. Fully named Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid, everyone’s brain has it. It slows everything down. It has now been discovered [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8359811/Chemical-running-around-brain-affects-ability-to-learn.html] that reducing the level of it helps you learn new sequences. Whether it be new dance [http:

Why does everyone hate recruitment consultants? A new entrant trying to shake up the print stationery sector publishes their stance on dealing with them, attributed to founder Richard Moross. [http://uk.moo.com/] > We operate 4 strict rules in dealing with recruiters, please read them carefully: 1. We only