by Pete O'Keeffe | Oct 30, 2023 | Blog, Persuasion, Tips & Ideas
GHOSTING: Ghosting people seems to be growing in popularity. And it’s not a trick to be played at Halloween time! How often have you been trying to talk with someone to discuss points and you never hear back from them, regardless of the methods you try. What is it... 
by Pete O'Keeffe | Oct 24, 2023 | Blog, Persuasion, Tips & Ideas
THINKING BIGGER When I look back over my 35 or so years in sales, I see that every major leap forward I made came as a result of thinking bigger. I had a great example of this many years ago in NZ, when I was selling mortgages and insurance and also helping my clients... 
by Pete O'Keeffe | Oct 18, 2023 | Blog, Persuasion
The hospitality industry routinely puts on a ‘discretionary’ service charge on your bill at the end of a meal. Should you pay this or not? What do you think? Do you get better service, the same service, or poor service, when a service charge is applied? Now I... 
by Pete O'Keeffe | Oct 9, 2023 | Leadership
Ben my son has progressed through the round robin stages of the RWC and has now been favoured with refereeing the quarter final, South Africa v France. And it made me think, What do top Rugby Referees and top Business Leaders do Differently from the rest of us?... by Pete O'Keeffe | Sep 28, 2023 | Blog, Leadership
HABITS AS A RUGBY REFEREE My son Ben is one of the 12 referees involved in the RWC in France. He recently controlled the Ireland v South Africa match and by all accounts reading what the pundits say – he had a pretty good performance. It wasn’t always like that... 