Topic

quirky

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

Cloak It

Iain Barclay is Hunter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_(British_TV_series)] . His detective exploits first appeared in the BBC’s Five Days [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Days] mini-series. When under the triple pressure of abhorrent case, lack of manpower and sleep deprivation, we see him either

You Can Normally Halve It

I had a dental check-up today. The dentist and I were chortling about how infrequently grown-ups visit the chair of torment when he mentioned something remarkable. > You can normally halve it …referred to how long people think it is since they last attended surgery. If they say it’s

Horizon Shift

The Westminster village prefers to peddle irrelevant tittle tattle these days rather than offer practical assessment of Government action. So I was happy to catch almost by fluke the current Coalition’s intent to instil an horizon shift in their approach to management. Cameron and Clegg determine [http://www.telegraph.

Chopper Collaboration

A current news story confirms our current austerity times. The UK and France are about to save costs by sharing warship capability. The cash saved amounts to the billions any new, now redundant, aircraft carrier costs. One tv talking head was aghast that the idea wasn’t already firmly lodged

Continuous Partial Attention

I’ve long been contemptuous of people that break-off mid-conversation to answer a random mobile call. Similarly, anyone replying to an email the instant it lands for no other logic than it has just flashed on their screen I hold in equal disregard. The latest Economist Technology Quarterly highlights [http:

Curbing Wastrels

There’s a big difference between spending money, and wasting it. How often do you discuss a prospect’s previous investments with a buyer? Hopefully they’ll be able to trot out a long list of wonderful projects that helped make both a ton of cash and everyone’s lives

Yeah, But...

I was in the company of lawyers the other day. Yes, I did need a few cheeky whiskies to survive. I enquired of them exactly how pitiful must legal training be when it comes to objection handling. Despite the supposed level of intelligence necessary to enter their brethren, and the

What Do You Think You Do?

I got chatting to a couple of people in a coffee shop yesterday as we moved tables around to provide elbow room for barista maintenance. After a few minutes of entertaining asides, one asked me what I did for a living. It made me realise what an incredibly revealing question

Details Portray Care

I chuckled the other day, after work in a cafe unable to avoid hearing rantspam by a local. He was moaning about a company he’d thought of working for. The job it seemed, was as a commission-only financial advisor. He rocked up to their premises. It was a prestigious

How I Met Your Mother's Approach Anxiety

I’ve as yet not seen a full episode of American sitcom How I Met Your Mother [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother]. But I have stumbled across the closing seconds of one. The scene was set in an office, and the character Ted Mosby was