Theon's appearance may be one torture scene too many for people (but fortunately the last one of the season), although it does confirm what the novels only later vaguely infer. Dany's confrontation with the Yunkish envoy is also very good (with some exceptional dragon CGI). The stand-out scene of the episode, Jaime Lannister's Big Damn Hero moment, was even moved over from another episode. It's solid, and certainly a welcome improvement on The Climb, but it lacks the oomph of his other episodes. Martin has written the two best episodes of the whole show so far, so it's a bit disappointing that The Bear and the Maiden Fair does not rank on the same level. However, in the middle we have a whole load of random scenes thrown together to see what sticks, and it doesn't really work. Aiden Gillen, whose performance as Littlefinger has been underwhelming throughout the whole series so far, gets a rare opportunity to shine in the role during his closing monologue, which is one of the more disturbing scenes the series has done. The actual Wall-climbing sequences are visually hugely impressive, amongst the best things the show has ever done, but the saccharine final image and the uncharacteristically awful CGI in the final shot let down the hard work elsewhere. Diana Rigg and Charles Dance bring their all to this scene of courtesy and threats and it pays off very well. The Climb is the weakest episode of the season, though it still has some very strong moments such as the barbed confrontation between Olenna Tyrell and Tywin Lannister.
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Yes, this may have worked 10 years ago, but in today’s economy it’s not good enough. We’ve all been led to believe the way you develop sales is by developing strong relationships with your customers. Summing it up, the authors don’t believe relationship selling is all it’s cracked up to be, and they have the data to back it up. More importantly, they blow up several of the myths most people have come to believe regarding sales. In the book, the authors reveal the findings from their extensive studies regarding the sales process. Because let’s face it – the next global meltdown ought to be here in no time.I recently read The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson. In the spirit of the theme of the uncomfortable challenge, I invite you to reflect on the opening line of this review. There are dozens more lessons herein, but I’m out of space. And be memorable not agreeable, for as nice as it is to talk about sports and kids, “unless you frame your conversation around an edgy or unique insight” you will be long forgotten in record time. Eliminate hasty agreements to requests for price concessions because – well, you’re better than that. Don’t “allow personal boundaries to be breached by the customer,” which is exactly what the Relationship Builder abides. Decision makers rank price #5 as a value driver, with “widespread support for the supplier” at #1. Be willing to rock your customer’s world a bit by sharing potentially upsetting data which they are likely unaware of (and anecdotally, this is an area where marketing departments can truly support sales reps beyond creating another shiny, happy brochure). Knock off the “yes man” approach, because it does no one – you especially – any good. It’s tricky stuff to execute when you don’t want to cross the border into the land of free consulting, so if this concept is appealing you’ll want to read the whole book.Īnd if all you want to swallow is one more paragraph of this stuff, following are some key takeaways. We have to be a step ahead, anticipating the issues our customers and prospects are experiencing, sharing with them valuable information they currently lack. In CEB’s model, we can no longer ask the lamer-by-the-day “what keeps you up at night?” line of discovery-based questions. And having a quality deliverable is no longer good enough because what sets us apart as professionals is the value of our insights. “If your strategy as a sales rep is largely one of being available to take care of whatever your customer needs,” they conclude, “that can be a recipe for disaster.” The problem is that being Guy Smiley and checking in on your accounts may work for finding business but it doesn’t work for creating it, which is naturally the key for anyone looking to proactively grow profitable revenues. What may surprise you is the least effective type is the first one, where relationship building is tantamount to hand-delivering warm oatmeal cookies straight from an Easy Bake Oven. By the book’s title, it’s easy to guess that what the authors term “the big winner” is the last category (think of them as professional cage rattlers). Their team discovered that there are five types of salespeople in the marketplace: Relationship Builders, Hard Workers, Lone Wolves, Reactive Problem Solvers, and Challengers. That’s twice as many as usual and let’s just say there’s work to do, with the core premise being that now is the time to update our skills and strategies so as to be optimally prepared for the next economic downturn, whenever that may occur.ĬEB’s research concludes that it’s not what you sell that matters, but how and they’re telling us to be more provocative. It’s average in length (just over 200 pages) and yet my copy now has more than 50 sections flagged for review. Based on extensive research, the book was released in 2011 and I wish I’d read it then – twice. Thankfully, The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson (from the member organization known as CEB) was recommended recently by a few different friends and it’s loaded with meaningful ideas for anyone who goes out to kill that night’s dinner. 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Gleefully detached, is a good description of some of the audiences I’ve seen, communally lost in auditory rapture. You, the festival go-er doesn’t suffer too badly either. Now for those readers who are not Players, don’t feel amiss. Be it the sweaty downstairs hall at Artswells or the open-sky tree-lined fields of Haida Gwaii. The fattest raspberries on the vine morph into sun-kissed faces, those smiles, that seething mass of happiness ebbing and flowing before us to the beats we are dishing out. It’s anything but a hard knocks life for us. Be they gymnasium fine dining, hot running water, mobile homes, tee-pees, smoked salmon by the bucket, warm kitchens full of happy cooks, backstage boogies, lacrosse-ball hockey, masseuse/stage managers and full moon parties with free beer to name but a few. That little piece of ID documentation opens up some pretty nice doors both in front of the House and out the back. 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After being harassed by another competitor, who’s lucky she didn’t get a beef wellington in the face, I finished third. I enter a chocolate egg lovingly laid by my beloved chicken Mae, and place it for inspection. The fair has a different produce category each week, and I’ve decided that I will win them all: the next category is eggs, and I’m sure to be onto a winner there. Most importantly, the village has a green that’s the venue for the weekly Finchwich Fair, where Sims in the neighborhood bring their best produce or animals to compete. The main hub of the neighborhood is Finchwich, a quaint village complete with a pub, some shops in which you can only window-shop, and a couple of stalls selling farming goods and produce – with one stall occasionally manned by the insufferable Agnes Crumplebottom, who loves nothing more than to beat you with her handbag if you dare partake in any sinful flirting in her vicinity. That produce also goes a long way in securing village bragging rights. I chose to enable two of the new lot challenges, one allowing for wild foxes and the other letting me live off the land – the latter meaning that your fridge doesn’t refill, so you have to either order grocery deliveries or live off what your animals produce. And there’s me thinking rural living is supposed to be stress-free. I dressed one fox as a burglar so that I could see when he was coming: my new mortal enemy. And don’t even get me started on the foxes who, between all these activities, are trying to steal your chickens, unless you befriend them and ask them to stop. I try to befriend the local wildlife – birds, rabbits and foxes – so they will help me maintain the farm but by the time I befriended one bunny it had disappeared, and a new one appeared that was considerably less helpful. I also have some high-maintenance oversized crops that need tending to, with allotments packed with aubergines, pumpkins and more. Even dressing my chickens in top hats and waistcoats doesn’t really make the slog any easier. This all sounds fairly basic, and most it is, but by the time I’ve done the rounds of cleaning, collecting produce, feeding and socializing with the animals – chickens are very needy creatures – the day is done. Cows, not surprisingly, need milking, and they may also refuse to play ball if you haven’t wooed them enough. As for the llamas, you need to shear their wool, though they have a tendency to be uncooperative if you haven’t built enough of a relationship with them. In the case of the chickens, you simply collect the eggs from the coop each morning, with some eggs serving as produce and others hatchable if you pop them in the incubator within the coop – although you can’t have infinite numbers of chickens. Each morning my Sim wakes up, and partakes in their daily routine of eating and washing before cleaning the coop and sheds, feeding the animals, and collecting their produce. Looking after animals is time-consuming but – at least initially – cathartic. And there’s me thinking rural living is supposed to be stress-free." "I dressed one fox as a burglar so that I could see when he was coming: my new mortal enemy. I buy some chickens for my coop – a couple of roosters, hens of varying colors, and a chick for good measure – and populate my animal sheds with one cow and one llama (you can only have one animal per shed, and you can only pick llamas or cows, though colors vary). Once the cottage is built, the hard work begins. It wasn’t long before I found myself cleaning out my chicken coop yet again, as my grizzled poultry clucked around my feet, questioning whether or not I should simply let my elderly rooster, Kentucky, peck me to death to cure the boredom. However, while the latest The Sims 4 expansion certainly introduces some much-wanted features, the novelty soon wore off. Finally I could farm oversized crops, befriend the local wildlife, care for my own livestock and generally live off the land, enjoying the quiet countryside existence that (pretty much) every city slicker dreams of. As a long-time Sims fan it’s been disheartening to see.īut, like every other The Sims fan, I was still excited by the prospect of The Sims 4: Cottage Living. These packs become novelties that quickly wear off, with little longevity. Where one expansion would cram in a bunch of new content, NPCs and features, it now feels as though that one expansion has been chopped up divided up among packs, kits and expansions. We’ve seen three The Sims base games released since those early days, and countless expansions across them all – with each expansion a somewhat more diluted experience than the last. Fast-forward to 2021 and things are a bit different. |
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