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Here’s a useful construct I encountered this week. As my homeland’s press went potty about the new Trotsky in their sights, the wonderful panto of Prime Ministers Questions (PMQs) suffered an unwelcome beige makeover. Dismiss it as yah-boo if you like. My travels have taught me that around

Apparently, half of all job roles today did not exist ten years ago. That’s from a total of 369 as identified by Deloitte, from App developer to Zumba instructor. So Sales is not unaffected. Selling is almost unrecognisable since my first post all of a decade back. Here’s

[http://www.harukimurakami.com] I have quite a thing for workspaces. Especially how a superstar salesperson should design theirs. (Blogging several times on the subject, such as this post a year ago on being a meezer [http://salespodder.com/curate-your-workspace-into-a-sales-machine-like-a-meezer/] .) This August, as a newly crowned ‘future-shaper’ by Time magazine,

Annual UK migration figures. A spicy subject for the ‘island monkey’ ‘rosbifs’ of Europe. The debate is regrettably lose-lose. Whichever side you’re on – and there is nothing resembling a fence on this – there is a figure for you. Your social media ‘echo chamber’ of choice resounds to the horror

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/06/pre-meeting-ipad-set-up.jpg] Grabbing a road-bound drink during a busy day, I happened to sit on a table in a cafe next to a pair of Italians. I noticed they were about have a ‘business meeting’. Due to a truly sales alarm. One

Another week, another American police street gun battle, a town in lockdown. In the aftermath of renewed riots in a place called Ferguson, I caught the remarks of Ed Flynn. The Milwaukee chief of police holds clear views on how social media driven misreporting unnecessarily fuels flames of discontent. >

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/06/dolan5happiness.jpg] Five small things to make your (as a new business hunter) prospect, or (as an account management farmer) customer, happy. How tricky can it be? According to the official UK Govt adviser on happiness (I know…) as listed above, just

Silly season PR this year scrapes up an equation for family holiday [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3190252/Fancy-picture-perfect-family-holiday-Newfound-mathematical-formula-takes-seven-factors-account-ensuring-stress-free-memorable-experience-all.html] survival. The hired hand psycho-quack suggests seven variables at play. Combined through various adds, subtracts, multiply, divide and even a squared. Along with recommendations. Like 70% of

Travelling between meetings I heard a restaurateur of renown [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_Café_(London)] answer her most commonly faced question. Ruth Rogers frequently gets asked “what makes a great chef?”. > “It’s not just talent to cook, but ability to work with others, teach