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10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation (and be a Better Listener)
10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation (and be a Better Listener)
âThere is no reason to learn how to show youâre paying attention if you are in fact paying attention.â
https://www.ted.com/talks/celeste_headlee_10_ways_to_have_a_better_conversation
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John's 2016 Business Trends
Johnâs 2016 Business Trends
Johnâs a cool cat with his ears open. His biggest business trends from 2016 is right. I will say I donât think anything on this list is new except the technology sea change thatâs going on around us. Leadership, talent, sales, communication challenges have always and will always be with us. But if you think the last 20 years of having an internet and email around has made your head spin then youâŚ
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How Often Should I Give Feedback?
How Often Should I Give Feedback?
[this is  a summer report series repost]
My Smart House Cat
Sometimes our cat thinks sheâs a dog. I believe this because when we house-trained our dog, we hung bells from the back door knob and he learned to ring them with his nose when he needed to go out. Persephone (my daughter named the cat for the Queen of the Underworld, which says more about my daughter than the cat, but not by much)âŚ
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Coming in Early is Not a Measure of Worth
Coming in Early is Not a Measure of Worth
Some of my clients praise the staff that come to work early and stay late. I think theyâre focused on the wrong thing. Iâd rather work with somebody that comes in late, leaves early, and still gets all their work done. Thatâs the key â are they delivering on their work? What is the quantity, quality, and timeliness of their work?
Thatâs where you get your value. If you donât know if youâreâŚ
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Your Vision Means Nothing
Your Vision Means Nothing
Truths About Leadership Nobody Wants to Hear Part 5
Not without the credibility and competence to get things done. Lotâs of people have lots of ideas. Some of them are even likable enough to get others interested in it. But without the ability to support that vision with your own hard work itâs probably not going to happen. Nobody likes to be the only donkey pulling the cart, not even otherâŚ
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Please Don't Do This
Please Donât Do This
Please donât do this. This is a dick move. If you need me to explain why in detail to you, Iâll send you my hourly ratesâŚ
Unfortunately the company in question had a mealy-mouthed values-based response, including:
âIssues related to that message have been handled internally. The message sent does not align with our core values of personal growth and diversity.â
This kind of corporate-speak damageâŚ
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Fail Fast is not "Bail Fast"
Fail Fast is not âBail Fastâ
Itâs an interesting balance to hold: being focused enough on our goals to put the time and work in to make them happen, and yet being âheads upâ enough to scan the horizon for opportunities to exploit and move us forward. When do you give up on something that once was a good idea. When does persistence become psychotic?
There are behaviours at either end of the bell curve. Take the Dysonvacuum.âŚ
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More Powerful Than Passion Mike Rowe has some interesting things to say about passion versus opportunity, and ends his blurb with: "
Changing What Can't Be Changed
Changing What Canât Be Changed
This article I wrote for Results Canada a while ago recently got republished. Since I first wrote it the book âInfluencerâ has added to the tools and techniques we can bring to bear on getting people to change for the better, and if this is a challenge you face itâs a book that I can recommend.
Enjoy!
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Execution Lessons from a High School Class
Execution Lessons from a High School Class
I like building stuff, and I used to be a Scout leader, so I found this article on building remote controlled cars to teach science interesting. Then I noticed there were a couple of project management guidelines buried in there too:
have sub-goals â quick payoff for effort that is near-term and achievable
tangible objects yield informed decisions
decide constraints (interfaces) before buildingâŚ
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On Being Productive
Being productive means different things for different people. For example whoâs to say that spending time with your children isnât an effective use of your time? What it comes down to is being in control of how you spend your time, which means learning to simplify, or even say ânoâ, to anything else that draws your attention and effort away from what makes you productive, whatever that means toâŚ
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Smarter Better Faster Never been a big fan of "SMART" lists, having watched people wrap themselves around the axle trying to fit whatever goal or task they're trying to fit into the SMART paradigm.
Three Keys to Innovation
Three Keys to Innovation
I had the opportunity to chat with Googleâs western Canada director at a tech pitch contest last month, and I asked her how Google manages to keep being so innovative even though they are now one of the largest and most recognized corporations in the world. Her answer made me think âit canât really be that easy?â a signal which Iâve learned to pay attention to.
Inside Google they use Chat andâŚ
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Questions to Jump Start Your Creativity
Questions to Jump Start Your Creativity
Jumping for Creativity
Habits are great when then support getting routine chores that donât require much thought done, but when they start to feel like a jail for your spirit, itâs time to challenge yourself. My friend and social media wizard Ernest has been doing just that for himself that last few years. Well, actually, he does it all the time.
Here are his thoughts provocative:
Questions toâŚ
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Your Competence Means Nothing
Your Competence Means Nothing
Truths About Leadership Nobody Wants to Hear Part 4
John Spence talks about how lack of focus hurts companies. Itâs true, and not just for companies. Itâs also true for leaders of companies, leaders within companies, and individual contributors in companies.
To be clear: individual competence and credibility is necessary. But itâs not sufficient to âjustâ be competent in order to be anything moreâŚ
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Advice to Millennials is Advice to Everybody Good advice for millennials, good advice for everyone. It's not good enough anymore to just be good at your job. The companies that succeed are the ones that figure out what collaboration really means. Five Exceptionally Powerful Ways Millennials Succeed at Work
Clarifying Your So-Called Passion
Clarifying Your So-Called Passion
Three years ago I was going through the end of a 29-year marriage, and it was one of the most horrible experiences of my life (including the month my daughter spent a month in intensive care after sheâd been born.)
In order to try to figure out what I needed to do next, one of the things I did was write a letter to my twelve-year-old self. I realize not everybody likes writing to help figureâŚ
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