Digest
- 10-June-2017
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Getting past an impasse
Focus the mind beyond immediate obstacles, to ensure you do the right thing.
- 01-June-2017
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Cultivate your personal brand
Control your brand or it will control you
- 31-May-2017
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On providing clarity
Provide clarity or skills to create clarity?
- 13-March-2017
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Talking about others
Don't say anything about others that you wouldn't say to them
- 13-March-2017
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You have the power
You are more empowered than you think
- 23-februar-2017
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Unqualified hyperbole is disastrous!!
Hyperbole erodes trust.
- 22-februar-2017
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Free your mind
When faced with difficult problems, use these devices to keep moving towards a resolution.
- 17-februar-2017
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Mind your self esteem
Self esteem is too important to put in the hands of others.
- 12-februar-2017
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What does good look like and feel like?
When planning, start at the outcome and work back.
- 10-februar-2017
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Do the right thing
Identify The Right Thing To Do. Then do it.
- 08-februar-2017
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A starter for 10 for business problems
People, process, technology and metrics. Start your thinking from here.
- 06-februar-2017
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Sometimes it pays to be predictable
Unpredictable people elicit emotive responses.
- 05-februar-2017
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Prioritise!
Humans are expensive and intelligent. They should concentrate on high value work. For everything else, there are machines.
- 03-februar-2017
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Mistakes will be made.
It takes courage to admit a mistake. It shouldn't.
- 01-februar-2017
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Consider this when reporting problems
There is opportunity (and possible peril) in how you report issues to superiors.
- 30-januar-2017
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Your best is probably good enough
Rarely (or never) has your best not been good enough.
- 27-januar-2017
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Forget good, what does marvellous look like?
Every so often we should aim to "shoot the moon".
- 23-januar-2017
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Slowing me down will not speed you up
Processes that are deliberately put in place to slow people down are wasteful and just push bottlenecks around.
- 20-januar-2017
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Never bring a bomb to a meeting
Nasty surprises should not be aired in front of an audience.
- 18-januar-2017
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Use conscious naivety to reduce friction in work
Don't waste time guessing the other person's motives - assume they are the same as yours.
- 16-januar-2017
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Communication is hard
Here are some tips for communication. They may appear obvious, but experience shows that this is not always the case.
- 13-januar-2017
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Keep your CV updated, but not for the reason you think
Your CV can be used to generate a positive mindset about your current job.
- 12-januar-2017
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Do you think about thinking?
The future belongs to thinkers with the right experience, aptitude, personal energy, and attitude.