What was your best pitch?

Posted by on Mar 4, 2007 in updates | 12 comments I’m not sure we could all get away with it, storming off from a business meeting in a huff and then being pursued to return and make a presentation – and still end up winning the contract. Roger Mavity did this, it’s one of the anecdotes included in a book he has co-written with Stephen Bayley, called Lif’e's A Pitch, highlighted in the chapter on the...
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Meet my namesake

Posted by on Mar 4, 2007 in updates | 18 comments I did a Google alert yesterday, typed in my name and came up with a namesake in California – here she is the blonde version, whose name is spelt Elle Seymour. Elle is a real estate broker and breeds horses. She appears to be quite dynamic, having won an Humanitarian of the Year Award. Her husband’s name is David, the same as my eldest son’s. She is also a “Blue...
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