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sport & selling

A collection of 404 issues

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

Animated Drive

Here’s an entertaining quote I picked up as the last paragraph of an interview [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/john-ratzenberger-pixar-perfect-1908350.html] with an actor that’s been in all 11 Pixar films to date. This apparently makes him the 6th highest grossing movie star of all

Scarves On The Slopes

I caught a review of the latest annual Davos shindig. It investigated (with a mixture of surprise and pride) how S Africa apparently made the biggest impact of any country for decades at its World Economic Forum, and all despite the worldwide abhorrence its president’s polygamy engenders. Apparently, in

Getting Luckier

One of sport’s most well-known quotes is surely from 9-time golf major champion, Gary Player; “the more I practice, the luckier I get“. So I was intrigued to catch a CNN chat with him alongside 20-year old Northern Ireland prodigy, Rory McIlroy. Player was asked to pass on wisdom.

The Right Target

Premiership managers are often heard talking about how they must first reach 40 points. It is at such a mark that they feel they preserve their prized status for another year. Gain 40 points, so the theory goes, and after all 38 games are done and dusted, you won’t