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Recreational reading around how Big Consulting pitch sales transformation [http://salespodder.com/the-sales-transformation-trap/] recently was fairly depressing. Yet from the debris of such flawed grandstanding, I found one crumbworthy of note [http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-recovery-and-transformation-services/our-insights/keeping-transformations-on-target]] . It took a while to unearth, mind. Especially when having to

Peter Brookes wobble-Thursday Times cartoon 1 vi 2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- …when it’s an unstoppable slide. I’ve touched on Wobble Thursday before (both 2015 [http://salespodder.com/dealing-with-your-deal-wobble-day/] and 2014 [http://salespodder.com/when-your-forecast-heart-overrules-head/]). It happens a week before election day in the UK where the ruling Party of the

A friend of mine relayed a scathing assessment on the uselessness of a recent McKinsey two-day transformation workshop. Hardly a surprise to many of us having suffered such self-styled Tier 1 “consultants”, no doubt. When seeking itineraries and commentaries online, I realised that part of their problem is how they

In the old days I actually remember being ordered by my sales manager to go buy a briefcase. Cost me a fortune too. Even twenty years ago I knew they were the past. Whatever vessel you use to carry your kit along to meetings, it’s not too old school

Roger Moore disarmed critics with wonderful, legendary stand-up calibre self-deprecation. So I was delighted to hear he also knew of that most Bond villain of objections; it costs too much. Naturally, he left it defeated, shaken and stirred. Here’s the tale on a common version of this hurdle, as

I do like the amazing seed vault run by the Norwegians [https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/food-fisheries-and-agriculture/jordbruk/svalbard-global-seed-vault/id462220/] for us all. Not least because of the suitably dramatic building entrance [https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Svalbard+Global+Seed+Vault&num=100&rlz=1C1AOHY_

Here’s a cheeky BBC cartoon graphic in keeping with their core brainwashing values. This time, thinking it clever to sneer how “boring” the current snap electioneering and the likely winner are. Frontrunner Theresa May faced that staple of magazine quizzes. Choose from a binary pair of options and let