quirky

If it were a country it’d be the third largest. I know this because a certain newfilm’s [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/] strapline has been unmissable as its launch approaches; Whilst reviews have been encouragingly favourable [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-social-network/], most pre-release journalism centred on

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(painting)] Someone hit me with this quote the other day, attributed to Picasso. > Action is the foundational key to all success As every salesperson has probably heard, Activity = Sales. This is also demonstrated as More Activity = More Sales. Kudos to Pablo. But this

I recall with fondness a sales manager of mine, when just starting out many years ago, that urged sharing the worst-case scenario on a sale with a prospect at the earliest possible moment. His reasoning was that the later such negative emerged, the more devastating it’d be to your

This was the key phrase singularly extracted by all UK news outlets from the newly formed Coalition government’s Business Minister, a certain Vince Cable, at his Liberal party conference last week. Despite softening by the last minute addition of the prefix “unrestrained“, the accusations ran that “Red Vince” was

What an unexpected change. A policeman with both passion and purpose is Chief Inspector of Constabulary. Sir Dennis O’Connor has hit the front pages everywhere in England this week in his quest to see dreaded yob culture anti-social behaviour stamped out. An open goal for many of the papers

I enjoyed sushi for lunch the other day. The Itamae recommended the tuna as lovely and fresh, and re-assured it was not bluefin, I had six Maki and also four salmon Uramaki (or mere Rolls & California Rolls as my heathen Western ears knew them). I polished off each in

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

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

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.

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