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quirky

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

Failure To Respond Will Be Taken As A Resignation

pic.twitter.com/SilB4gbF0O — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2025 I don't think it's getting political to suggest half of people judged this meme posted in the week cool, the other half not so cool. Even then, some might offer the corrections of 'just over' and 'just under' half. In

70pc Of Human Behaviour Is Determined By Your Environment

... so how's yours? I came across the stat of this post's title above from Owen Eastwood. A hugely in demand 'performance guru'. With record across sport, art and commerce non pareil. The label Environment refers to pretty much everything that surrounds you. Physical, mental, social. A key focus he promotes

Exclusive Party Planner Guide To Memorable Meetings

Bronson van Wyck knows all about first world problems. As party planner to the rich and famous - starting out with infamous socialite and Winston Churchill's daughter-in-law when American ambassador to Paris - you'd be forgiven for thinking such elite circles have little to do with us mere hoi polloi.

Devil's PR Problem Explosion

Whilst enjoying a cheeky pint with an old friend, I heard his tale of how he got a food stall voucher. Apparently convinced the culprit for a bout of what he called Montezuma's Revenge was a chicken burrito. After tricky back-and-forth, he secured compensation worth double the initial outlay. Then

Are Foxes Counting Your Chickens?

As I often regale, there's an ol' knowing adage passed on to Tigger-bouncing newbies from the wizened counter-of-beans. Namely that despite years of hope, they've never seen a business case where the numbers came to pass. I'm not quite at the 'all data that matters is fake' end of the

Better Diagnosis Quicker

In my cubrep days, one early Consultative Selling course imparted wisdom given two extremes of doctor. One disinterested, writing in their illegible scrawl, only mumbling to tell you when to take your fresh meds. The other, interested, looking you in the eye, asking you this-or-that, checking any second guessing, wishing

Magician's Rock Star Metaphor For When Prospect's Falsely Believe They Can Do-It-Themselves

It wasn't long after my cubrep days that I came across one particularly toxic delusion of the internal IT team. In those days, they were firmly under the grip of the Finance dept. A combo which could go out of its way to ensure disaster. Selling innovative modules plugging gaping

Is Abrupt Turnaround Like Big Late Bid or Big Delivery?

It feels like most of the planet's population has heard of the current purge of government waste suddenly underway in the USA. Related to official foreign aid alone, this chart puts proportional circles on a world map. A kind of bubble chart cartogram. Denoting the largest project spends of the

There's Nothing More Deceptive Than An Obvious Fact

Arh, the game's afoot. I was reminded of this Sherlock Holmes quote, as so beloved of detective novelists in general, through helping overcome a cold call objection. There's a few ways of looking at it. Yet not accepting things at face value, resolving to question everything, and not go with

What's Their Bat 60?

Bat Shed Crazy. The headline writer's dream. Mocking, aghast, anger. At a specific £100m of taxpayer money spent during construction of a stretch of high speed rail in English countryside. On a bat tunnel. It holds a salutary tale for any aspiring solution seller. One repeated all too often, year