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A collection of 92 issues

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

As Written By AI

Given reading with my own eyes AI hallucination when being told by ChatGPT-4 I'd written blog posts that I had not, I asked it to write a 400-word post on the false title it served up first. Here it is. Coming in three under the word count limit

When AI Makes It Up

The current free version of ChatGPT takes knowledge gleaned from all the data it can mop up, posted up until September 2021. I wondered what it made of my Video Calls That Sell tagged posts uploaded to that point in time. The response was; "As an AI language model,

Are You A Prompt Engineer?

By the end of the second decade of this century, it was widely estimated that half the jobs then being done had not existed at the turn of the Millennium. [I touched on this in a broader Sales sense back in 2015 for my 2,000th post.] This huge wave

If Or When Will ML, AI Make Our Selling Jobs Redundant?

ChatGPT is the latest leap towards HAL, 'replicant' or Skynet human-beating-machine to scare those of us who had thought our working future secure. In beta mode right now, apparently, you've likely been hit with clickbait for its uncanny ability to write blog posts, poetry or lyrics,

Empty Chairs

Quite the phrase du jour. And not related to the swathes of unoccupied desks due to en masse commute reluctance when WFH can continue as an entitlement. Instead, 'empty chairs' is a manifestation of how difficult it currently is in Blighty to recruit. The Great Resignation and work/

Why T@#!s Is A Dirty Word In Sales

There's long been the trope for commercial sellers of the Sales Prevention Department. Candidates are legion. My personal first experience in the craziness was twofold. Strangulation from (software) development. More concerned with what they thought technically exciting. Instead of what the marketplace was telling us in Sales was

Who's In Your Band?

These 200 seconds from late '21 will no doubt be of little surprise to you as it trundles well beyond halfway. The now familiar 'hybrid is staying' mantra. Widely promoted as the enlightened bandwagon from around that time. Just after a minute in, the co-located to distributed

Async Selling Re-Start

As someone long used to selling across different time zones, the ‘remote’ work evangelists are catching my ear quite a bit at the moment. They feel that the genie is out the bottle. Whether espousing the death of the office, or simply a hybrid split embedding between home and cubicle,

Teams Promoted App Icon Gallery

[/content/images/wordpress/2020/07/ms-teams-add-a-tab-app-icon-collage-500gr.jpg] The inferior video conference product Teams, unsurprisingly from Microsoft, suffers compared to alternatives. Functionality, usability and speed are all bettered elsewhere. Which is noteworthy because I was a fan of being on their NetMeeting offering in this space, some twenty years ago… When