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A collection of 402 issues

Eddie Jones Dressing Room Final Words

As I blog this, we await the mouth-watering semi-finals of the 2019 Rugby World Cup. During pre-match build-up, I heard former England scrum-half, Danny Care. He shared insight into the man-management of their Aussie coach, Eddie Jones. Widely considered by those worked under him to be up there with the

High Tackle Protocol Selling

The absorbing 2019 Rugby World Cup moves into its knockout phase this weekend. One key feature is the latest revision of the high tackle laws. It is a contact sport yes, but there shall be no contact with your opponent’s head. The protocol that the match officials must follow

England Rugby Half-Time Re-Set

The character that is (Australian) rugby super-coach of England, Eddie Jones, hopes to leave no stone unturned in pursuit of World Cup glory this year. At half-time in their penultimate tournament warm-up match, despite going behind early, they had Ireland on the rack. From 22-10 up, they’d go on

Greatest Cricket Innings Ranking & Your Decision Criteria

Wow. The mindbending stokesy-cokey that was the Ashes 3rd Test winning knock. Luminaries of the English game seem unanimous. It was the greatest ever innings by an Englishman. One of many such praise laden reports came from former spinner and self-styled ‘analyst’, Simon Hughes. In The Times broadsheet, he proposes

The Road To Success Is Always Under Construction

I’m not such a big fan of the purveyors of self-help mantras. Most of it, pure guff. Playing on insecurities with quasi-religious brainwashing akin to internet marketing fraudsters. Yet, as a friend of mine almost once remarked, among the fields of dung a rose doth grow. The motto above

Aware Of Tactical Changes Lately

As the latest thirteen-month year-long football season ends with far-flung pre-season friendlies merging seamlessly into the Super Cup curtain raiser and the new helter-skelter full season proper, I suffer the perils of listening to late-night talk radio. Former Eire football international Ray Houghton was being fawned upon in the studio

Once Twice Better

Project 56 [http://salespodder.com/whats-your-project-56/] today bears fruit. Three years ago I blogged on the ambition of incredible swimmer Adam Peaty. We sellers could do well from embracing his approach to breaking a barely human barrier. Today, he cracked that Rio Olympics borne aim. At the current World Champs

Express Yourself Like Cricket World Title Winners

[https://www.ecb.co.uk/video/1279402/highlights-england-win-the-icc-men-s-cricket-world-cup] > #ExpressYourself The more details that emerge around the work that went into the England cricket team’s 50-over World Cup triumph, the more you marvel. I can imagine so many an outfit – sport or Sales – being roundly dismissive of having a team

World Champion Cricket Values

> “Our values as a team include the words ‘courage’, ‘respect’, and ‘unity’, symbolising the three lions on our cap, and taking that cap forward across all three formats and all squads.” So explained (short-form) England Cricket Captain Eoin Morgan. Alongside colleague (& Test skipper) Joe Root at the Shangri-La Hotel, away

The Adidas Trap-Check Your Pitch Does Not Echo An Ordinary Figurative Mark

A long-running retail intellectual property dispute made headlines this week. A brand that long ago (including with their 80s Patrick football boots) used two stripes as their branding, objected to Adidas trying to expand the scope of their three-striped design overlay. The ruling found against [https://news.sky.com/story/