[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/rio-2016/video/p045c8vw] Drawing is a skill I’m always keen to (re)introduce to salespeople. Counter-intuitively, sellers tend to shy away from leaping up in front of a prospect and let their marker pen do the talking. I was delighted to see
The Rio Olympics. Team GB win women’s hockey Gold. I avidly watched the entirety of their knock-out matches. Forget the fact that in both semi and final, vanquished opponents Kiwi then Dutch had all the play. Our girls never knew they were beaten. An incredible belief coursed through their
The vaunted “marginal gains” philosophy pioneered by all-conquering British cyclists once more produces peak performance in Olympic arenas. Continuous improvement has moved far beyond American-reject fed Japanese total quality management to underpin stellar sport success. At every turn during the Rio Games, there’s a story of how such forensic
With the bi-annual failure fest for an Englishman that is each international football tournament done, taking stock of the club season just completed there is only one real story. Yet in the wings perhaps this next coming season’s fairytale is already taking shape. Twelve months ago I was privileged
I’ve happened to be in countries other than my birthland during an olympiad. I didn’t imagine I could watch quite so much table tennis when in Singapore. Or root so loudly for the Silver Ferns ladies basketballers in New Zealand. Or be so infuriated by the refusal to