Generate Conversation
A few weeks ago, I received an email from a lady that I do not know. Her name is
Jane. I do though know her firm and have dealt with them for a few years now.
She wrote to me (and several others) to inform me of her new type
Topic
quirky
ideas and experiences with a selling angle that come from left-field
In 10 Seconds; Go!
Arh, Kylie [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylie_Minogue]. Kylie, Kylie, Kylie. On the
interview milkround to promote her latest album she truly shone in her Sky News
outing
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Whitehall Spending Challenge
Here’s a pair of facts presently emblazoned across screens in the UK’s aftermath
of the new (coalition) Government’s emergency budget:
> £952 Billion – total current debt
£155 Billion – current deficit
The figures are of eye-watering worry. Britain owes almost One Trillion pounds
Sterling. Staggeringly, that’s over
Complaint-Compliment Balance
The billions spent on ‘communications’ by huge multi-nationals are hardly far
the the spotlight at any time. Right now, neither BP nor the American Government
are providing a case study in how to conduct crisis management. And can there be
any supposedly altruistic organisation that gets such a pasting in
Dress Rehearsals
I saw Aussie Bill Granger [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Granger] cooking for a
small Summer evening private dinner party hosted by a couple of girls that
design in Sydney’s high-fashion world. Scallops to start, chicken salad then
meringue.
Having recently delivered a presentation as part of a team
Know Your Realm Of Expertise
I just had recounted to me a pearl of wisdom attributed to a Dr Peter Asquith.
Apparently a surgeon, this sage once saw a colleague completely taken apart on
the stand by a silk in a legal case. The lesson he had confirmed to him was,
> “never go beyond
Never Waste A Crisis
The world seems to be coming round to the opinion that Obama is in a job too
far. There appears a pretty much universal view that his response to the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill is both inappropriate and ineffective.
One such talking head I saw referred to the mantra of
Leadership Radar Process
I gained a fascinating glimpse into leadership from a rolling news talking head.
The professor concerned was familiar name to me as many years ago, just after
graduation, I had a friend that went to work for him in Oxford.
I was taken with his analysis of UK political party
Seek Little Disruptions
With the World Cup party bouncing along in South Africa, I caught a documentary
on the Beeb about how their 70s and 80s overseas rugby tours were disrupted by
anti-apartheid activists in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand. Their achievement
was to hasten the fall of the oppressive system.
What
Tips For Waitrons
An airport lounge Reader’s Digest led me to Michael Lynn. He’s a psychologist
and professor at New York’s Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration
who majors on studying why people tip. One outcome of his work is to deduce how
servers in restaurants can increase end