Do you feel at the moment - whether you work in the physical world or on the web - that everything has become a flea market?  Every activity in which you engage now is like standing in the middle of a million other people all shouting "I have the best product"; "choose my CV - other people only say they are the greatest - but I REALLY AM!" 

 

And if Globalisation, the Internet and Recession have arguably created this flea market experience - we are split down the middle, aren't we?  As consumers we crave everything it has to offer - cheap prices, readily available goods, people falling over themselves to sell - but as suppliers we struggle to raise our head above the parapet.  What does this say now about how we sell our companies or even just "ourselves" these days?  Is the machinery itself at fault?  Or more likely, are we just better consumers of marketing messages than we are suppliers?