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My re-usable takeaway coffee mug. Making many more video meetings. I know how impossible it is to get a little wind turbine on a Cape roof. No polyester clothing. Taking less flights than Emma Thompson. I’ve long been fond of trying to do my bit to save the planet.

I spent much of the weekend this chart appeared in The Times print edition (Sat 27 Apr 2019) obsessing over the graphic. Not necessarily the topic whence it hails. More, the implications for solution selling. I’ve brightened my original photo colours somewhat. They show starkly what might well happen

Here’s a definition. It comes from Chinese working conditions; > (Chinese: 工作制; pinyin: Jiǔjiǔliù gōngzuò zhì), 996 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system] is the work schedule at many a tech company in China, which means an individual works 9am to 9pm, 6 days per week.

Machinations, dance routines or general obfuscations might plague the bulk of a meeting with a prospect. Yet never let them get the worse of you and lull you into a fatal switch off at the death. Here’s an introspective exchange between two hardened interviewers of politicians: > Iain Dale:

1989. Quite the year. Aren’t they all? The 200th anniversary of La Republic. Springtime saw my first visit to Paris. So terrific, I returned at Summer’s end. Staying around the adjacent Latin Quarter often, the ancient cathedral a constant presence in your peripheral vision. Today it stands in

The ablutions inside The Ivy restaurant in central Birmingham contain this little marvel. There’s a saying I do like to use: > we put a man on the moon before we put wheels on a suitcase (Here expanded to extol anew video conferencing early-’19 by the ever reliable

There’s a green initiative throughout England promoting reusable vessels to refill with café provided tapwater. Birmingham, which has some of the finest tapwater on the planet as piped in from pristine crystal Welsh lakes, recently launched their push. On a local tv news website organiser Michael Addison was first

This post features three phrases I’ve heard over the past week around Friday gone’s one-time EU/UK B-Day for its title. Each has its own interesting sales objection and their prevention parallel. Fantasy Brexit refers to the fact that the UK’s lawmakers are failing to coalesce around

Another way you can leverage the blanket media Brexit coverage. Thankfully, one you can deploy without taking sides. Nicely avoiding the problematic alienation of half your audience. When spin creates so many different options, where no single one garners a 50-percent-plus-one majority, how on earth do you coalesce behind a

Shamefully, Google’s auto-suggest AI offered only two thoughts here. ‘There’s no monopoly on common sense’ is most irritating to hear. ‘There’s no monopoly on good ideas’, less so. Especially in a business setting. Even more bizarrely, look what happened when, a few minutes later, I re-typed: Magically