Wine Glass Test

"... only on well-isolated mattresses will a wine glass stay upright when a heavy weight (or jumping child) lands on the other side of the bed".

I came across this unbuckable nugget discovering how 'hybrid' mattresses have come along [sub'n req'd].

You can't help but be shaken by the feeling there's an apt metaphor bouncing our way from this.

On one level, there's the mitigation angle.

Have we resilience when turbulence strikes nearby?

If not, what's our plan to ensure sturdy, robust surrounds should any mini-seism strike on the other side of our bed?

There are many different styles and size of wine glass.

This one, seems fairly standard hospitality-wholesaler ware. With reinforced protection against breakages for longer lifespans and reduced operating costs.

Yet have we something more 'designer'? A beautifully slanted Zalto perhaps, or stemless Riedel? Maybe you've superior crystal? Or more the bog-standard Barcelona bar house 'copa'?

Then again, have you got a completely different type of drinking vessel altogether?

If the one above is indeed towards the workaday greater heft of the spectrum, is this matched by our piece of business? If we happen to have more delicate glassware, what can we do to strengthen the absorption of what upon it sits?

Then there's our equivalent of the jumping seven-year old.

Take this, from first sampling long-term account management thinking.

It wasn't long into my own Enterprise SaaS endeavours around the Millennium that I discovered a trio. The often tortuous and little to do with actual impact Annual Budget submission process for the next financial year. A fresh-in-post Big Boss or (often much worse) an M&A in play (in fact, any structural organisation change fits here). And specific to that era and offer (a salesteam knowledge management first), either their first attempt at 'putting in a database', or upgrading from early SFA to the new shiny trend of a (supposed) CRM.

A quarter-century on, à la Gordon Gekko, it feels we've still the dog, but with different fleas.

It seems inevitable that some pyjama-clad child will come bounding into the vicinity of our wine glass. How do we form our underlying mattress so it does not topple over?

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