Everyone who has come into the club since Damien has been here was of my choice.
- Kenny Dalglish
(Source: The Guardian, Liverpool part company with director of football Damien Comolli)
I think the release of Damien Comolli is being used to soften the blow for Kenny Dalglish. If the above quote is true, then Comolli certainly can not be removed due to the signings over the previous months and years. Dalglish says who he wants and Comolli’s job is to go get them.
People love seeing their own name. It makes them feel is if the email was written to them personally and not sent to thousands. Online services have simple options to directly insert names from your contact database using a template editor.
(Source: Selling Power, Seven Ways to Improve Your Email Response)
There’s much more into this than simply adding a first name. Think about all the data scrubbing you have to do to ensure your list(s) have the correct first name. Then, think about the content itself – does it actually make sense to use their first name? And, how do you use their first name? (ie, Hey FNAME or Hi FNAME or FNAME?).
It’s very difficult to explain,” said the Scot. “We played some fantastic football. We were deserving of our lead and we weren’t even under pressure.
With a bit of care and better finishing we might have been three or four up at half-time.
You just couldn’t see a goal coming from them and maybe the luck they didn’t get against Bolton they got here.
(Source: BBC Sport, Mark Hughes says fightback will give QPR survival belief)
- Kenny Dalglish
After some thought, most eventually say something like, “Well, I think so. I hope so. No one’s said he doesn’t.” In fact, as they ultimately admit, they don’t really know for sure.
It’s a question worth asking. Do your people trust you?
- From an HBR introduction to an upcoming series of posts on the topic of trust and teams.
Terrific quote from Jerry Colonna…
…the hardest part of scaling people is learning to lead your self.
(Source: avc.com)
As Jerry notes in the article (link below) and on his site (link above), most of the solutions to our challenges come from within.