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A collection of 166 issues

Robinson Sells The NHS

The Beeb’s approach over the past decade to pop-business shows is laudable. The only series I can recall being a dud was the Adrian Chiles pathetic ‘what do you do all day?’ nonsense. The rest all pursue a Radio4, Broadsheet type agenda, yet put across in plain English, and

Reminding CEOs of Sales' Importance

London’sManagement Today [http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/public/home/] mag for me frustratingly falls between two stools. In that desolate middle ground, neither broadsheet nor tabloid, it simply doesn’t have the calibre of journalism associated with the wittiest of redtopping or well-contended quality. What it should do, is

An Inconvenient Truth

Spent an interminable number of hours on planes recently as I went to Melbourne to watch England’s total Ashes humiliation. Awesome time though. One of the many movies I watched was on Qantas’ cool on-demand service that every airline should adopt. It’s the 60-min slide show by Clinton’

Your Own Little Presentation Helper

By fluke I came across a site called Presentation Helper, which has a fella talking about his 10, 20, 30 [http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/10-20-30-rule-powerpoint.htm] message on Powerpoint presentations. It’s got cracking insight, as he’s a bloke that’s clearly suffered several useless pitches for venture

Sales J-Curve-ing

The latest pop-current affairs book ripe for plucking from duty free book shelves seems to be from American political analyst Ian Bremmer. It plots the position of almost 70 nations on a J-Curve against scales of Stability v Openness. One tenet of which, shows how a totalitarian regime may once

Dragons going Forth

The 4th of the current series of my fave show (Dragons Den [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/?id=dragons_den] on its 3rd series in England) had its usual collection of lunatic ideas, near-misses and funding secured. Here are the relevant sales-y pieces: * when someone mentions money, a

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A number to remember. Andy Dufresne’s prison number. And for those familiar with Shawshank Redemption, you’ll know that’s not pronounced as it looks. It’s not really necessary to ‘review’ this outstanding flick as such – so much exists elsewhere as it’s always in the top 3

Rising Sshhun

Watched this Sean Connery flick last night for a bit of a wind-down. It’s a fantastic film to watch if you’re doing business in East Asia. I bet the original book (by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton) is gripping. The film lacks something somewhere in translation to screen

Skyrocket Your Sales, Part Two

Well, a ridiculous 36° in London today, and tomorrow could top the 100° day we had 3 summers ago. With a terrific breeze this evening, I thought it’d be the best time to listen to Chris Howard’s second disc. And I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised,

Dearth of a Salesman

Just seen programme two in Steve Coogan’s 1995 series Coogan’s Run. It’s the one written by the awesome Father Ted creators about Gareth Cheeseman. It was premonitorily called Dearth of a Salesman. He’s a truly awful, egotistical self-centred salesman selling the “Lancelot 2000 soundcard”. It’s