sport & selling

One for sales managers. Current or aspiring. Courtesy of listening idly to a panel of journos deliver their pub-talk verdict on the latest Premier League managerial merry-go-round rumours. It seems that whenever a new “head coach” appears before the press – on top of the inevitable influence of “track record” or

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/01/boardingtornpaper.jpg] The Abu Dhabi golf tournament seems to be the sport’s big annual kick-off. I saw hot World Number One Rory McIlroy give an interesting press conference in between warm-up rounds. He always starts his year flying to this event.

As a cricket nut, I couldn’t resist a post on the extraordinary week that surrounds Kevin Pietersen’s autobiographical score-settling. Being in Team England famously became known as life in the bubble during the past decade. A bubble, it seems, beset by the danger of several pricks. Any of

A week on from the terrific European Ryder Cup victory, a couple of reflections on how the Americans seem at present continually put to the sword. For today, Captain McGinley’s meticulous preparation reminded me of way back in 1997. In his homeland, Spanish legend Seve Ballesteros was by all

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/09/rydercuptartan2014.png] I’m lucky enough to have sat in what has been Europe’s team room at The Belfry. Maybe not so fortunate to have patronised the adjoining Bel-Air nightclub. Ahem. As Europe beat America for an 8 from 10 record,

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/09/syed-day-after-ryder-cup-14-win.png] Europe did it again. Golf’s superb Ryder Cup was suitably retained. Americans vanquished, disintegrating into frustrated recrimination. In one for Sales Management, in the following day’s Times, Matthew Syed compiled an essay on the overdue influence given to

The madness that is the football industry was yet again seen through Monday’s transfer window deadline day. As rolling news services wet their pants over the whole affair, I couldn’t help but think on one comment from an attendant statto. Apparently, two current young England centre forwards (Sturridge