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Juggling in NYC
I got into NYC yesterday and after meeting up with someone I ended up going over to Bryant Park where there was a music festival happening in the park. In the middle of the group there were 20-30 people juggling. As an amateur juggler myself (stress on amateur and maybe better word is novice), I went over to chat with the group to learn more.
In talking with several people and what a welcoming…
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Do you really want disruption or to be disruptive?
Do you really want disruption or to be disruptive? Check out Learn about this and more at WorkLearnPlay.com
Let’s be disruptive. Let’s disrupt our industry. Let’s disrupt our company. Let’s disrupt the game. Disruption is still cool while “innovation” term has lost some of its lackluster. Last year I wrote a post “Don’t be ‘innovative’, be disruptive”and I only told half the story. Note throughout rest of this post I’m going to reference people or person throughout this but reality is that…
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Lesson from 2016 - don't discount people's fears...
Lessons from 2016 - don't discount people's fears... Learn about this and more at WorkLearnPlay.com
Now we are a couple weeks into 2017 and I am starting back writing again as one of my 2017 resolutions. What better way to start out is to capture lessons from the past and in a series of posts I will do just that based on lessons that I believe we should all take away from 2016.
In 2016 many of us heard about the scary clown craze and some people have significant fears of clowns and others do…
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Don't be "innovative", be disruptive
Don't be "innovative", be disruptive - this and more to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com
Talking about being innovative doesn’t make you innovative. So many people and companies today talk about being innovative and disrupting things. Guess what – most of it is just talk. When push comes to shove true disruptive innovation is tough and attempts often fail. On the other hand iterative product development is easy and comfortable and easy for executives to pat themselves on the back.
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Zig when others zag
Zig when others zag -- learn more to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com.
The safe thing to do is go with the crowd – look at politicians, stock fund managers, and likely your boss. Going with others will ensure you never are wrong because you were following others. You can certainly go around life zagging with others.
True leaders zig when others zag. There is almost no single solution to any problem. Leaders identify other solutions and execute. So next time you see…
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Is this too formal?
Is this too formal? -- learn this and more to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com.
We live in interesting times where the traditions of the past are more quickly becoming the traditions of the past. Things change so fast but some things don’t.
Each of us has certain conceptions of what is appropriate in a given situation. Most of us would not show up to an interview in shorts and a t-shirt but do you need to where a three-piece suit and tie. When crafting an email to an…
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Gaining organizational influence
Gaining organizational influence -- learn about this and more to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com.
Gaining organizational influence is one of the most challenging things for employees and contractors today. People generally like to take pride in their work and their opinions but often times feel this is discounted in today’s companies. This challenge for gaining influence is not only in the realms of big companies either — many people face the same challenge in small companies.
Organizational…
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Creating something from nothing
Creating something from nothing - learn more to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com.
This weekend I participated in an Internet of Things (IoT) Hack Day and I won’t get into project specifics and all that but it got me thinking of how quick we can make something from nothing nowadays. We are able to rapid prototype things now with 3D printers, high level programming language, Raspberry PI, Arduino, and most of all people’s creativity and ingenuity. The creativity and ingenuity…
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Conference Success Lessons
Conference Success Lessons at -- learn about this and more to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com.
This year I took on leading the organization of a large local analytics conference focused on the financial and retail industries. The conference was called MinneAnalytics FAR Con and there were a number of things that I learned throughout the process but there were a two key things that I thought important to emphasize because no matter if you are organizing a good sized conference, starting a…
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Email - love it or hate it but get better at it!
Email - love it or hate it but get better at it! - learn how to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com
No matter what your job as an information worker is you probably have a large part of that job spent looking at a screen sending emails. Ok, I will start off by admitting that email is a love hate thing for me. Email is great because you can have the ability to communicate with people all over the world and at all times of the day. But, email also encourages poor communication habits because it…
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Where does your communication roadmap lead?
Where does your communication roadmap lead? - learn this and more to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com.
Communication is one of those things we all know is important. No matter if you are a manager or individual contributor we all must communicate daily. Communication is easy but good communication is tough. What is more difficult is there is no right way to communicate with everyone.
People are different and communication styles are different. Some people prefer direct, in-person communication…
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Don’t let sunk costs sink you
Don’t let sunk costs sink you - learn about this and more to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com
A popular term in economics, accounting, and finance is “sunk costs” which basically means costs that have already been spent. These costs may be from software purchased, processes redesigned, machines purchased, consultants hired, etc. Whatever the costs are it has been spent and there is no getting it back.
Instead of looking at what has been spent you need to do a fresh analysis right now to…
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Do you follow the 80/20 rule?
Do you follow the 80/20 rule? - learn about this and more to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com.
A catch phrase that is often mentioned is the “80/20 rule” but rarely do people really spend time living it. This rule is phrased in different ways but most often means that 20% of your efforts result in 80% of the benefits. In a sales environment for example 20% of your clients result in 80% of revenue and the other 80% of your clients result in 20% of your revenue. Generally speaking the…
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Solving problem solving
Solving problem solving - learn about this and more to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com.
The world is full of problems to be solved. If you are lucky your day is full of problems as an information worker. Some problems are more fun than others to solve but all problems require solutions – even if that solution is ignoring the problem.
While people generally consider themselves good problem solvers, they rarely are as good as they think. The better a person becomes at problem solving…
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Making meetings magic
Making meetings magic - learn this and more to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com.
One of the most painful parts of a workday is a bad meeting. Meetings don’t have to be bad but too often they are done poorly. There are a variety of reasons why meetings go wrong. The meeting scheduled for an hour that goes an hour and 20 minutes with only two of the six people attending contributing to the discussion. Or, maybe the meeting where the first 10 minutes are spent trying to get the…
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The real correlation vs. causation difference
The real correlation vs. causation difference - learn this and more to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com.
No matter what your role as an information worker – data matters. Data helps us understand our customers, health, friends, family, profitability, employees and the list goes on and on. As the world continues to have more computers, cameras, and sensors we will continue to have more data and have a better opportunity to either improve the quality of life or the alternative.
At one time executives…
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Avoid bad people habits
Avoid bad people habits - learn about this and more to supercharge your success at WorkLearnPlay.com.
One of the things we hear a lot when growing up is to give people the benefit of the doubt but as we get older we see the same things happening again and again and the natural thing is to classify, judge and stereotype situations quickly. After all doing this is efficient and over the years often times your classifications, judgments, and stereotypes turned out right after all.
Successful people…
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