Topic

sport & selling

A collection of 408 issues

Seek Little Disruptions

With the World Cup party bouncing along in South Africa, I caught a documentary on the Beeb about how their 70s and 80s overseas rugby tours were disrupted by anti-apartheid activists in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand. Their achievement was to hasten the fall of the oppressive system. What

Penalty Precision

In S Africa for the World Cup at the moment my main focus is on keeping out of the storms and how to avoid my natty St George wing mirror covers being pinched off my car. Over four years ago, I blogged about how missing a stone [http://salespodder.com/

Boardman Bike Bites

Olympic gold medal champion Chris Boardman passes on long-distance cycling tips to a beginner [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/the-lycra-files/7740030/Chris-Boardmans-ten-tips-for-completing-the-Etape-du-Tour-The-Lycra-Files.html] in The Telegraph. A pair of points fascinated me about these. The first was how adaptable and relevant many of the headline hints are to

Dream, Believe, Work Hard

What on earth was I doing when I was sixteen? Incredibly an Aussie 16-yr old has just circumnavigated the globe in her shiny pink boat. I certainly felt a twinge of age when I heard about this! There was no hesitation to dwell upon thinking up a marvel of inspiring

Find That One Game Changer

Oh wonder of wonders, England are menacing the rest of the pack at a global cricket tournament. As we blasted to the latest Twenty20 final, the best commentator around, Nasser Hussain [www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/14325.html], revealed yet another mindset attributed to 70s/80s uber-skipper Mike Brearley

From Choker to Champion

An entertaining S African in-flight mag article tickled my attention for discussing how the label “chokers” became attached to the country’s cricketers. A sport psychologist named Henning Gericke was called upon to share his successful work with the rugby World Cup winning Boks in the hope of showing the

The Secret Is In The Dirt

Having stayed up absorbed by a compelling final round from Augusta, I was obviously a little disappointed for my man, Lee Westwood. Yet it was clear that Mickelson played a blinder. His outrageous shot to within a few feet from the trees at the 13th will go down as legendary

Basketball Resolve

I share in the bewilderment that American sports bring to the vast majority of people on the planet. Physically attending huge such events in their homeland merely compounded the fog. Yet there are the odd couple of American sports people of which I’ve heard. One of them is Michael

What A Client Values

One FT columnist I like reading when waiting in corporate receptions is Lucy Kellaway [http://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/lucykellaway]. She recently riffed typically irreverent thoughts on messages to give long standing clients. I was intrigued to see her document what she considered the four things that clients valued

Fabio Management

England’s great hope, Italian Fabio Capello, offered yet more insight into his (hugely successful) management style through aTelegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/teams/england/7307637/Fabio-Capello-English-footballs-man-in-the-middle.html] interview. Whilst a lengthy features piece, at least six techniques can be gleaned that many a sales manager