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As POTUS 45’s inauguration neared, each US news network held frenzied discussions on what The Donald might actually do when in his Oval Office. The yanks do these things very differently to everyone else right now. In Blighty they revel in discos. Their shorthand for discussion, one for which

Parents worried about teenager’s screen time tallies could take perhaps some comfort this week. An Oxford Uni survey [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/01/13/257-minutes-time-teens-can-spend-computers-day-harming-wellbeing/] of a whopping 120,000 15-yr olds seems to suggest their wellbeing is not damaged even from 4hrs in front of

I learn of this concept from the danger that is Putin. Frozen Conflicts. The method of creating chaos to destabilise anyone you cannot manipulate directly for a buffer zone of protracted, choking quicksand. Ukraine is the big current example, but others persist. The mere threat of them is having a

[http://lexicon.ft.com/Term?term=path-dependence] The FT definition -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was reminded of the concept of path dependencefrom this Tim Harford [http://timharford.com/] piece on thedevelopment of the Diesel engine [http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38302874]. Here’s his key definition; > a self-reinforcing cycle in which

‘Twas ever the solution sellers lot. The items you wish to discount you cannot and those you can are deemed irrelevant to your cause. Who ever pays List Price? One relatively early selling revelation I had was when I stopped showing people officially sanctioned price lists. Whereas others viewed these

Here’s a fairly random piece of pr from the UK’s Woodland Trust. They now crown an annual top tree. With seemingly little logic,England’s winner for 2016 [https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/tree-of-the-year/england/] was a Sycamore with a part in the Kevin Costner 1991 Robin

bigly [https://salespodder.com/the-bigly-wonders-of-making-up-your-own-word/] In a world where everything he does is immodestly ‘great’, the American President-elect likes to liberally plaster dollops of folderol (hyperbole, to chucklingly drop a scarce word) across his own achievements. Bigly as his particular superlative of choice has been the subject of much grammar

Britons voted to Leave the Euro-supra-state. As I’ve blogged before, into the mix as to why is the power of slogans and your sales pitching. Brexit as a word became a real winner. (Among the many writing on its power, this piece from the Creative Review [https://www.creativereview.

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