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This title above is possibly my favourite comment of 635 replies I scrolled through on a tweet bemoaning the latest generational attempt to rebrand the Sales dept.

The California roll is an excellent example of encouraging people to try something radically new.

It's generally a bad sign when people use the adjective "quick" to describe something they want you to do.

A couple of fellow sellers running significant shows of their own alerted me to the ballooning of this latest most unsavoury digital direct mail tactic.

Here's a screenshot of the FT splash 1 Sep '26.

It was largely with indifference I casually read of Apple's handing of the baton.

I was thinking about how I recognize AI writing, and one big tell is excessively colorful verbs.

A flyer through the letterbox.

"He even developed a trick which he passed on, which was to plant some obvious firework into a column which would have to be removed, but leave a depth-charge in the hope that nobody noticed before it went off.

These whippersnapper creative sparks are discussing their indie-pop track, Love Me Right.

Dr David Potter died recently aged 82.

When asked to host a Sales forum over video recently, my brief from the leading salesperson involved included to create an environment that elicited the most intel from those assembled.

“The world at this level breaks down into two groups.

“It takes six months for a great manager to fix a poor team, and the same time for a poor manager to ruin a good one.”

This blog's title is the exact phrase as said in commentary tonight by javelin European championship and former world record holder, Steve Backley.