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sport & selling

A collection of 415 issues

The School Assembly Turn

I suffered the typical surface scraping of an evening radio football talk show. This time putting to right the fact that no English manager has won the EPL, and there seems an absence of any likely to come through and take the game by storm. Newspaper columnists, administrators, coaching badge

Message Clarity Check via Tennis Grudge Match

[http://tennis.life/2017/05/08/grudge-enthralling-tennis-bouchard-sharapova/] I had the unusual pleasure of watching a women’s tennis tournament second round contest in full this week. All three hours of a captivating Monday-night thriller. Madrid’s clay court battle was hyped up as the opponents had engaged in well publicised

The Essence Of Selling From Heavyweight Champion Of The World

Joshua-Klitschko. A classic heavyweight bout. In front of a whopping 90,000 crowd. A sensation is born. During the glowing media plaudits after, one seasoned hack quoted Jack Johnson, America’s first black champ a century ago. Talking about how the elder statesman surprised commentators by boxing unexpectedly different, with

Act Decisively On Non-Premium Body Language

There’s an American uni women’s basketball side on a 108-game winning streak. Their coach hit transatlantic airwaves given a key element of this success [http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/03/geno-auriemma-uconn-ncaa-tournament-2] being attributed to spotting the obvious body language of players. Picked up in part due to a

Fun Momentum Defuses Terrorists

The footballing nation and beyond is having their say on the brutal sacking of Claudio Ranieri. Whether you have close interest in this or not, the thoughts of the team’s former performance psychologist are fascinating. Ken Way was shown the door once the fairytale title was won. Claudio, it

If Sales Leadership Shares Football Manager Brutal Pressure

This week it is not just red blooded sport billys talking about football. Everyone it seems, has an opinion on the monopolist Thai-owned Leicester City sacking of 5,000-1 title winning boss Claudio Ranieri. Universally (almost) thought to be a disgrace. Dilly ding dilly gone. From Jose Mourinho to Eddie

Do You Prepare Like Neapolitan Mister 33

Serie A’s Napoli are through to the Spring knockout rounds as group stage winners in this season’s Champions League. They are currently coached by someone who clearly values preparation. Maurizio Sarri came through the amateur ranks and so perhaps holds higher gratitude for his career than contemporaries. His

6 Team Leadership Tips From An Unbeaten Eddie Jones

The miracle worker that is the Australian-Japanese rugby coach, Eddie Jones. For the first time, England have gone an entire calendar year not simply unbeaten, but victorious all the way. Thirteen wins on the bounce. More startling still when you consider that prior to his reign, England didn’t even

When Your Team Is A Team To Its Core

Yes yes. I know there are sales leaders who purposely ignore the ways of sport teams. They cite the false allure of a passing management fad, the implausibility of a workplace world championship calling and the wild imbalanced reversal in the ratio of Training to Doing. When they learn the

Bin 'Daft' 'Joke' Countdown Visuals

St George’s Park. Gleaming new tech-colossus/Bond-villain-liar style (delete as appropriate) HQ of English football. Greg Dyke. A man “successful” in telly administration? He proved fish out of water running infamous meddlers, sporting body The Football Association. He thought it a good idea to place a particular clock on