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A collection of 421 issues

Face A Big Loss Like Federer To Be Grand Slam Champion

Bloody Wednesday the media are calling it. Record numbers of injury withdrawals and super-crazy upsets are hacking away at Wimbledon contenders this year. After Nadal’s shock defeat came perhaps an even bigger one so early doors. Federer’s incredible run of 36 grand slam Quarters-or-better ended to an apparent

Know Boundaries Like Top Cricket Analyst

[/content/images/wordpress/2013/06/sa-cric-analyst-prasanna-agoram-p-dog-400x221.jpg] This is a pic taken of my telly showing, I learned Wednesday, an Indian chap affectionately called P-Dog. I revelled in Wednesday’s latest South African cricket “choke”. Especially as I was watching from their Cape. Mauled by the alarmingly predictable and plodding,

Jurgen Klopp Champion Rise

Not since the young Mourinho has such a breath of fresh air blown through football management. Okay, so the team Jurgen Klopp manages, Borussia Dortmund, got turned over at Wembley in Saturday’s enthralling Champions League final. A crushing last minute Bayern killer denied his team. Man-for-man the Munich superstars

Succession Planning Flawed

Two English news snippets this week past mentioned succession planning. One was the rather arrogant response of the retail grocer Sainsbury’s top man – he’s staying put for years apparently – and the other being a football manager leaving Man United. Their next guy seems to be deliberately chosen as

Cool Slide Format From Management Change PR

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/05/hashtag-unitedcontinued.jpg] Well, I’m not a Manchester United fan. So when this was widely reported (posted prematurely onto their facebook page), I was in the someone’s-losing-their-job camp, rather than the give-them-a-break camp. Who cares if you’ve not had to

Hairdryer Retires

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/05/the-sun-front-page-hairdryer-9May13.jpg] Football manager leaves huge club. Hardly of interest to many a salesperson around the world I guess. Yet this particular manager has claim to be the best ever. In the aftermath of Alex Ferguson’s ‘sudden’ retirement from Manchester United,

Murray & Scott's Focus

A couple of intriguing sales stories emerged today. Last night I was glued to the finale of the Masters Golf major. A gripping ending saw Aussie Adam Scott prevail in a thrilling play-off. It appeared that one reason for his elevation from serial grand slam runner-up over the past couple

Aussie Cricketer Presentations

With back-to-back Ashes looming and England favourites for a change, you gotta love this story. After getting walloped in the first two Tests by India, the Australian squad were requireded to prepare for a presentation to management. They were asked to detail how they could improve. Four declined to partake.

Premier League Change Management

Yesterday I watched a fascinating documentary about how the English Premier League became such a dominant football force across the globe. In just twenty years TV rights exploded from around £3m, to £2Bn. Utterly incredible. More Than A Ball Game looked at how the league was formed. There were all

England's Rugby Transition

Let’s not carried away. England are not yet quite the world beaters we crave. Despite walloping New Zealand and now winning in atrocious Dublin weather. The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2013/feb/08/stuart-lancaster-england-flops-force] wrote this interesting piece on how the building blocks for this