Asking great questions: some notes
I’m updating my Asking Great Questions / Excellent questions program. Here are some notes: Listening to this podcast about African engineers designing things…
Relevant and fun team building for your offsite
Team-building has real benefits. You want what you do at your offiste to have the highest value. You would like it to be both relevant and fun. I’ve been hanging…
A feedback option that works
You want to get feedback so you can improve. But it’s hard to take sometimes. Here’s a useful nugget from Seth Godin. He suggests that when we receive…
Motivate yourself!
It’s not talent that distinguishes the great from the also-ran. It’s motivation. Here are: three ways to motivate yourself stories to tell yourself to…
Do less and obsess - so you gotta say no
Do less and obsess is the first of 7 principles that top performers have in common in Morten Hansen’s book Work Less Achieve more (podcast here). Here are…
Purpose and making money from art?
It seems a popular idea that you can do what you love and the money will follow. I’m not certain that it’s actually true. I do know that I love most…
Get the best money
You get what you negotiate. This article will help you negotiate salary, benefits, your home loan. How To Negotiate Salary: 5 Secrets Backed By Research And here…
Better Ways to Negotiate
You get what you negotiate. Whether you’re negotiating a deadline, bed time or a speeding fine, it’s always useful to have some new strategies. Firstly,…
Concentrate (don't multi-task)
the more people multitask, the worse they are, not just at other mental abilities, but at multitasking itself. Source: How To Learn How To Think If you’re…
Leadership, Levels and History
Leadership is not just one thing but many. Here are some different approaches. First, an interesting summary of Drotter's Leadership Pipeline. 6 passages between…
Story works
Story is an integral part of the process of enchanting, beguiling and well, lying. I don’t want you to lie. If you want, however, to make people listen to…
Getting more exercise
We all know that exercise is good for us. And yet we can de-prioritise it in favour of other stuff. Until we feel like we just don’t have the energy, just…