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A collection of 51 issues

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

Uni Cyber Lab Screen Stack

When was the last time you were in a contact centre? I've made fairly regular visits of such environments throughout my career. One of my very first was a mid-90s trip to a N East of England call centre, belonging to a mobile phone network provider. It was both a

AI CV Fail

How can your salesteam live with AI? I know that's a question that (albeit perhaps slightly less so mid-23 compared to earlier in the year), vexes many a sales leadership. I have come to believe that how a salesteam handles AI for recruitment may well betray your approach to excellence,

Video Meeting Transcription

Just Say No. That sums up my experience of outbound video calls and the wave of 'AI' automated video meeting transcription services. Even with internal meetings, I've seen transcription cause disengagement. Google Meets has a remarkable live transcription. People tend to be amazed when first encountering it. Yet pretty soon,

Bard Marred

I've been asked why my given AI conversation examples are up to now typically based on ChatGPT. Well, the answer is simple. Bard is rubbish. And it's not just that the Bard UX is presently poorer. To gauge its calibre, I asked it a couple of rudimentary questions about a

What 44pc of your Sales Skills will you Need to Change?

Whilst not an oracle we ordinarily ought pay particular heed to, the WEF's latest Future of Jobs report features the odd startling prediction. I guess they'd claim the Fourth Industrial Revolution they heralded seven years back has now accelerated into the public psyche due to the tipping point that is