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A collection of 46 issues

Momentum Mapping

🇪🇸 Spain 2-1 England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (FT) The best team in the tournament was the better team in the final, and they've separated themselves from the continent with a record four European titles.#ESPENG #Euro2024 pic.twitter.com/DMJRezXbAH — Opta Analyst (@OptaAnalyst) July 14, 2024 The continent's avid analysts this week conflab to

Deliverism Department

Here's a neologism. Courtesy 'progressive' political policy wonks. London broadsheet The Times' offer this meaning; "...it will not simply be enough to do what was promised, but to convince voters that it had been done." Swap voters for buyers there and you've a raison d'etre for the entire coalesced masses

Coffice 30yrs On

Would you work from a car office? Ford patent shows how it wants to turn dashboards into desk space https://t.co/AM4xGpwPSD pic.twitter.com/eGkXxTqWlj — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) May 21, 2024 I had a good ol' decade as a road warrior. Driving huge distances at all hours

Perils of AI Recruitment

It's not often I agree with the World Economic Forum. If ever these days. Yet those illuminati elites at the WEF who wish to suppress us normal folk believe when it comes to career progression, we're losing the human touch. I read London's The Times Alice Thomson cite Hilke Schellmann,

Mukbang Commensality

Those familiar with the two words of this post's title may feel that it's also an oxymoron. Yet I feel we ought make it an open secret. The former I wrote about as No. 49 of the 52 Ways in my book, Video Calls That Sell. The latter I discover

Interactive Business Card

I recently got persuaded by a local tech-based printshop to undergo a business card refresh. Back in those downs of lock, I designed a card for my present focus. One side featured the main cover image from my book. The other, contact deets. Given I've long since moved beyond that

Episelling Diet Update

A doctor recently reminded me of epigenetics. Through the mystery surrounding changed traits via organ transplants which somehow alter recipient behaviour by adopting characteristics of the donor. I recalled I'd found Sales merit in this concept before. Ten years back. One example cited was how post-op, a previously committed vegan

When Will AI Make Our Salesdecks For Us?

Spoiler alert: not now, not so soon, maybe never? The latest ᴀɪ marvel is the breakthrough with super-ʜᴅ animated/ᴄɢɪ yet real looking video production. The initial clips are quite the thing to behold. So the world of ᴀɪ continues to move at pace. I've come across such products specifically

Hybrid Remote Engagement Happiness Modern Future Dynamic

It couldn't escape my notice that, for the third year running, prediction pieces on what the next twelve months would bring the office domain usually included a familiar refrain. The formalised seat at the C-suite summit for someone charged with forging our post-lockdown ways. Most typical of job titles suggested

Helping Coffee Badgers Buy

A lot of talk around changing workplace trends is of the where. Fevered debate around mandated days in the office, hybrid boundaries and WFA distance. Mixing varying levels of presence flexibility is one thing. Now it appears such flexibility reaches the when. Building on classic work/life balance tropes. For