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Donald Trump. The gift that keeps on giving? Certainly as far as a rabid media is concerned. I couldn’t quite believe the amount of pixels invading my screens about his method of handshake. Now known, it seems, as his yankshake. Rather than refer to place of origin, ‘yank’ tells

Following “thirty years of professional condescension and making out like bandits”, and sick and tired of (inaccurate) proclamations of doom, Keith Craig wrote an infamous “suck it up” letter to the FT. Note to their Establishment readership; you’ve messed it up, your time is done, make way for the

It’s been almost impossible to miss across your social media feeds this past week. A visitor to the US Holocaust Museum tweeted the poster on display there above. With a cascade of retweets and inevitable trad media [http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/poster-listing-early-warning-signs-of-fascism-shared-hundreds-of-thousands-of-times-by-antitrump-a3453921.html] pick up. “The

The oft-entertaining Aussie Dr Karl spoke recently about the forever tardy [http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/greatmomentsinscience/never-too-late-to-overcome-chronic-lateness/7960286] . I ought set out my stall. I hate people that are always late. From discovering the phrase “just now” in South African means pretty much the opposite of what

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/01/missinglink-joburg-clocks.jpg] I posted a lovely visual [http://salespodder.com/have-you-a-global-ego-when-you-need-local-focus/] from 1994 film The Papera while back. I then came across a South African firm from Joburg that had done similar. Exactly how I liked. With a twist. If you read

[http://adage.com/article/campaign-trail/84-rejected-clinton-campaign-slogans-courtesy-wikileaks/306358/] 84. That’s one funky figure. The number of campaign slogans tested by Hillary Clinton’s eventual losing US 2016 Presidential campaign. Victorious Trump, you may recall, only ever had one; Make America Great Again. As I blog this, we’re only a

What does their reception area approach reveal about a company? It’s amazing what you can see when they’ve a telly on the wall. Daytime tv was showing at a place I waited Monday morning. Made a strange change from rolling news. Some hyperactive, self-styled consumer champ was talking

The first Monday in Feb. Ew. So painful, that this year an estimated 350,000 extra Brits skive off work today. What does the worst day for absenteeism mean for selling? Many a wizened rep will know when Prospect Sickie Day falls. The day after the Board sign-off meeting. The

Metal is not my preferred musical genre. Yet there is something truly both menacing and freeing about Paranoid. So Black Sabbath play their final ever gig tonight. Back in their hometown after 50 years of rock. They are the Metal originators. Invented an entire Genre. In the late 60s they