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A collection of 53 issues

Sales AI & KM Experience

Optimizing AI agents requires writing down the valuable institutional knowledge in your company. Big co’s will struggle with this: middle managers worry about becoming replaceable and leaders worry about leaks. If they don’t do it, they’ll be crushed by competitors who do. — Harj Taggar (@harjtaggar) May 2,

Easy Peasy AI Squeezy

I asked the AI for the least inspiring inspirational poster and I weirdly like it pic.twitter.com/gaxWyL33QB — Arthur Dent (@ArthurCDent) April 11, 2025 Casandra or Pollyanna? Which are you? Perhaps of greater import, how about your prospect? Even if you feel it's too early to tell, preferring to

Magic Robot Miracle Cures

How's that AI project going in your sales effort? Is such initiative the desperate rouse of under-fire boss nearing departure lounge jumping on the decade's buzzword? Or the determined journey of a clear plan, building on past success? The Sales Dept can plausibly lay claim to being both most underwhelming

Talent Stack 25

There's been plenty of 'one-percent' style doctrines down the years. One outlasting scrutiny, is that it is incredibly tough to be in the top one percent for anything. The fluke of gift, the trick of graft, the lottery of connection. To then stay in that lofty echelon, is even harder.

Will AI Ruin Sales As It Currently Wrecks Recruiting?

A Boxing Day linegraph from the Daily Mail. On their scale of zero to one hundred, over the past five years Google Trends shows the search term 'how to write a CV' hovering around the 40 mark. Yet since starting along the 10 level, the past 48 months has seen

AI Proof Pitching

There's a presently observed HR dichotomy. We're all about people. Empathy transcends. A culture most gleaming. Where you can be your best self. So we'll hire you by AI. S'pose we ought expect nothing less from our colleagues latterly vying to be the standout epitome of the Sales Prevention Department.

Tempted To Delve Into AI Prop Writing?

Over the Summer marking season, I noted a Uni philosophy lecturer had found a pattern in too many of the papers he was judging. Exeter's Dr Edward Skidelsky had found one give-away word; delve. In general such output, "is typical of the purple but empty prose that ChatGPT produces", he

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