Posted by Jon on 8 June, 2007 under Musings | 
It’s so important for a proposal manager to make the right impression with a team from the outset. Turn up late, flustered and unprepared to the kick-off meeting, and you might struggle subsequently to establish an air of professionalism and credibility.
From the participants’ perspective, the kick-off is about understanding the opportunity, the process – and their role in it. From a proposal manager’s point-of-view, the sub-text is more:
“I need you all to be prepared to follow me into battle.”
Posted by BJ on 6 June, 2007 under Musings |
As a very left-handed person, I was very pleased to read the following two bit of information.
Charles Sander Pierce, the founder of semiotics and pragmatism, was an accomplished mathematician, astronomer, and logician. This visionary lefty is widely regarded as an innovator in many fields, especially the methodology of research and the philosophy of science.
Dr. Alan Searleman, of St. Lawrence University in New York, found that people who were “true left-handers”, who did everything on their left side, from kicking a football to picking up a glass of water, scored one third higher on vocabulary tests and twice as well on problem solving tasks.
How cool is that, right?
Then I read that there is only one species on Earth that is left-hand dominant. The Gorilla.
(And no Jon, I don’t know what ‘semiotics’ is either.)
Posted by Jon on 4 June, 2007 under Word play & writing |
Thanks to a friend for sharing her favourite proposal proofreading error… in which a colleague relying on their computer’s spellcheck had inevitably failed to pick up on the rather significant difference between the words ‘like’ and ‘lie’.
As in:
“We always lie to satisfy our customers.”
