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Promoting his part of a series called An Intelligent Person’s Guide To Education , retiring Eton Headmaster (and former pupil) Tony Little did the PR rounds this Summer. As possibly the world’s most famous school, he made a good stab of trying to rebut detractors who deride his institution

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/07/timemag-blends-portmanteau.jpg] One for salespeople that like wordplay. Wannabe copywriters or those that feel they can outdo their marketing brethren relish the construct that is aportmanteau [http://salespodder.com/?s=portmanteau]. I note from the recent Time magazine double “answers” issue [http:

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/07/irights-u18-digitalrights.jpg] Here’s a shot I took off a Skynews slot. It’s in reference to a proposed digital charter for children. The one garnering most chatter is up top. An ability to delete your own posted web trail when you

The British Left is in disarray after an unexpected Election pummelling. So much so that they appear bizarrely close to choosing a Stalinist as their next leader. Comedian Mark Steel evoked the speech style of long ago incumbent Tony Blair to suggest what the Party required. [https://salespodder.com/content/

[www.spectator.co.uk/author/alexandra-coghlan/] Classical music always seems in crisis. Audience shrinking, regular attempts to spread its reach take place. Magazine critic Alexandra Coghlan made these remarks during a debate on the latest ‘trick’, a pay-what-you-want-at-the-end gig. > When you talk to people about classical music … [you hear]

Talking over a couple of cheekies with a bunch of expats sheltering a monsoon, I realised one line from the recent UK Budget speech had terrific recall. Its hook comes from three simple numbers; 1 – 4 – 7. It arose during a section on welfare spend reduction. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr Deputy Speaker,

As the creator of this ‘coaching’ equation sets out; > P=p-i [http://theinnergame.com/] According to this formula, performance [P] can be enhanced either by growing “p” potential or by decreasing “i,” interference The first time this was mentioned to me, I instantly liked it. The ‘interference’ aspect intrigued

[http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jul/07/greek-debt-crisis-alex-tsipras-seeks-last-chance-deal-live] Here’s how the UK’s broadsheet of The Left live blogged the pivotal Greek debt eurozone crisis 7 July 2015. Greece are heading for years, decades even, of fiscal misery. I sense this not because of the “oxi” referendum

Surfing in downtime for entertaining infographics ideas, I came across this analysis [http://www.facegroup.com/how-stuff-spreads-1-gangnam-style-vs-harlem-shake.html] of how global pop dance-move phenomena Gangnam Style and Harlem Shake infected the world. The assessors looked at how the Twitterverse spread the memes. Their conclusions (8 things we learnt about how

I was talking with a chap about the benefit of quickening meetings by having all participants stand-up during them. He revealed that when he’d worked at Cisco, many such forums were done this way. We swapped other examples. Ones I blogged [http://salespodder.com/stand-up-to-meeting-madness/] about over eight years