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[https://www.mojomarket.co.za/] One of my favourite snack stops. As I grabbed an elevenses coffee, there was a German ahead of me. He liked the look of the bagels. Yet the half-dozen or so fillings on offer made from scratch that morning left him hankering after one not

Another year at the One Percenters Club in Davos, another Richard Quest whiteboard (here’s last year’s flipchart [http://salespodder.com/boston-consulting-ceo-doesnt-know-how-to-write-on-a-flipchart-do-you/] ). He trampolined on the WEF’s pitiful 2018 theme [https://qz.com/1184818/davos-2018-theme-creating-a-shared-future-in-a-fractured-world/] , “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World”. Above you can see what

I endured once working for a maleficent chief exec. One of the many examples of this unwelcome trait emerged from his views on hidden drivers. He’d encourage all salespeople to mortgage themselves up to the hilt. Whatever house they were thinking of living in, he’d batter them to

I caught a South African rolling news show called Tech Report the other day. One segment had a countdown of the presenter’s favourite all-time geek quotes. Here’s her number one; > we’ve always been shameless about stealing great ideas It was attributed to Apple’s Steve Jobs.

So the French courts are busy hunting down evil megalomaniacal firms. The kind that harbour Bond villains. Ones that bully all ends of the marketplace. Ruthlessly choking competition, customers, suppliers and anyone else that dares challenge them. They’ve even coined a new Gallic term [http://qz.com/303947/us-cultural-imperialism-has-a-new-name-gafa/

> good accounts make good friends So said to me once by an accountant with a wealth of experience. It doesn’t literally mean you’ll be bosom buddies. More that when people both provide their goods and pay for them in a timely manner, everyone works much better and

> “We don’t want perfect to be the enemy of the good, is it better than what we’ve got?” So said American Senator Mike Rounds (Rep. for S Dakota) when commenting on the supposed bi-partisan Dreamer Deal for immigrants into the USA, January 2018. Is there anything worse

Real lines said in a meeting, Part 18.1.12… Who doesn’t love a cunning heist movie? A good old fashioned caper. The loveable rogues with a plan against the evil ‘man’ that make it, just. Well, here’s a reaction from a Friday meeting. Right after news broke

[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42559436] Sjoe. As an Englishman, I’m certainly no hardcore gun-tooting bible bashing Republican. I may even be a social liberal. But I was appalled at the imbalance and partiality of Wolf Blitzer and his CNN Leftists this week. Specifically how they wet their pants

[https://www.instagram.com/p/BbMXYCQjZsZ/?taken-by=focus_sb_ltd] I was delighted this week to read anSME Sino-success [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/01/02/one-smallcompanys-first-chineseorder-offers-inspiration-forbrexit/] story. As well as the breakthrough export element, also because I love stories where high-end options thrive in commoditised, race-to-the-bottom, margin-slaying