Some people think I don’t like sales people. Not true at all! I love, respect and fear most of the good sales people I know. The lousy sales people I know, on the other hand, don’t usually end up on my Christmas list. It happens that a fair number of the bad sales people I know are […]
Please Stop Sending Bad Holiday Greetings
The Slow Elf’s Tale Gather ‘round, boys and girls and let me tell you about how we did company Christmas, excuse me, Mutli-Denominational Winter Holiday (MDWH) cards in the olden days. You see, kids, it used to be that businesses bought thousands and thousands of MDWH cards, which were labouriously hand-signed and mailed (with a […]
Welcome to Our Resolution-Free Zone
What did you expect for the first working day of the year? A quiet bit of time, perhaps, to hide the last of the 2011 bodies and steal that nice chair from the conference room? Had you counted on having to rid your Inbox of 2012 Predictions, 2011 I-Told-You-Sos and Helpful New Year Resolutions for […]
Why We Need to Stop Writing Plans and Start Making Them
So did you take my advice and text your 2012 marketing plan to your boss? Well, maybe next year. Maybe next year, instead of wasting our time fiddling about with PowerPoint, we will do something much more valuable for our Corporate Overlords, like coming up with meaningful responses to changing conditions. In ketchup circles they […]
Six Reasons to Text in your 2012 Plan
Say, how’s your 2012 plan coming along? What’s that? You’re on version 357 and your Corporate Overlords haven’t even seen it yet? Your desk is awash in spreadsheets you’re too terrified to throw out? You spent most of last Wednesday trying to fit 7 point type into a Venn diagram and most of the next day […]
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