by George Pastidis
We read every day interesting articles in reputable sources, explaining the differences and similarities of Solution and Insight Selling. Back in 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article with title “The end of solution sales” and Forbes had two years ago an article entitled “Insight Selling is the new Solution Selling” read more…
Martin Luther King Jr. never died – (MLK Day – Reposting)
by George Pastidis
51 years ago, on Thursday, April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was standing out at the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis when a bullet entered through his right cheek. King dropped unconscious and an hour later, according to the autopsy report, he passed away read more…
by George Pastidis
That should be the new slogan replacing the lying line “make America great again” which Donald Trump loved selling and millions of people kept buying for years, making last evening a great country getting embarrassed worldwide and democracy being hurt big time read more…
by George Pastidis
One of my favorite authors is the crime novelist Jo Nesbo whose I must have read every book he has written. When he released his last book “The Kingdom”, I got it on my kindle right away. I made some time to start reading it about a month ago. This book though was going unexpectedly slow and so was going my reading. Had quite a hard time to engage in. Three weeks later, I had gone through 15% of the book and I was still bored to death. I got in touch with a friend who is also a Nesbo fan and I knew he had read it already to understand if it gets any better. His answer was: Yes, it does get better but slowly. I gave it another good chance but when I was 25% through being totally disengaged still, I gave up read more…
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by George Pastidis
The recent very interesting Gartner New Employment Deal article, talking about driving performance via flexibility, creating a shared sense of purpose and building deeper connections made me reflect on the subject. Made me start thinking whether this is something real new or it was always the case read more…
by George Pastidis
I love sports. I love playing and watching sports and I love reflecting on sports. Sports help you learn and sports help you tell good stories about lessons learned. One recent awesome source of great stories to tell was the Roland Garros semifinal between Novak Djokovic and Stefanos Tsitsipas. The diligent, intelligent, machine like Serb who together with the enthusiastic, stubborn, talented Greek, gave the world three great lessons read more…
by George Pastidis
Fifteen years back, I saw one day a friend clean-shaven after having for a long time a 10-day beard. He explained to me that being in his mid-fifties, he needed to get rid off his beard that was turning grey for avoiding being perceived and treated as a tired veteran in his workplace. I believed that things had gotten better ever since. Not sure how much though read more…
by George Pastidis
A couple of weeks back, I wanted to look for a new gym because my old one did not match my new COVID era’s criteria of hygiene. Apparently, my top criteria were the level of cleanliness and ventilation and then of course how busy the place is at my prime workout times, the opening hours, the quality of equipment and the membership’s fee. I cared less about the group programs or the personal trainers’ availability or whether they would weight me or guide my nutrition. I needed and wanted very specific things which I knew how to get read more…
