When starting a new endeavour, take a moment to look to left and right, at the two extremes you can move to: To the left is investing into creating exactly what you want. It’s expensive, and you’ll generally find exactly what you are after. This means its high risk because, hey! It might not be [...]
Being the eve of Apple’s new product launch, I see it as a great time to share a mind map of Steve Jobs’ original ipod launch presentation. I’ve boiled it down to a three act structure – a format I’ve found easy to modify and merge into my own presentations. What I’ve found useful is [...]
There is no doubt that some people are better at juggling workloads than others. Does it come down to their amazing multitasking skills, or is it their innate ability to knuckle down and focus on the single job at hand? Clearly, it’s not just the ability to focus that breeds efficient workload management. In fact, [...]
Sometimes, what you need is someone to walk up and poke holes in your master plan. Not the vindictive, destructive holes. No! The logical holes which expose the pride-puttied faults that you have (albeit unintentionally) neglected in all of the excitement. What you’ll find is that once a few holes are brought to your attention, [...]
There are companies who expand, and there are others who do not. In this era of globalised technology and internet business, there’s simply no reason to keep the horse and cart when you can have the sporty new car. We have the internet, and we have business savvy internet clients offering up purchases just as [...]
You might be familiar with the coined phrase “risk equals reward”; a phrase which motivates the motivated and is jeered at by the cagey. It is easy to look at this one dimensionally. “Risk” is a very broad term, and generally indicates doing something, whereas “Reward” can relate to a slew of passive, immediate or [...]
I’m becoming ever more fascinated at the heroism demonstrated on TV, movies and games in this era. We see underdogs challenge the overbearing bullies, the wily victims risking all for what’s right – the passionate lawyers doing what they feel is just. Is it unrealistic, or foolhardy to idolise someone fictitious? I say no. Admiration [...]
Have you got a room in your house where you just can’t concentrate? You no doubt feel distracted more than usual, and things take longer (sometimes much longer!) than they should. Why? It’s because you’ve programmed yourself into acting that way, in that location. You’ve anchored yourself. The solution? Re-arrange/clean the room, or move locations. [...]
This has two skus: I’m not talking hierarchies in an owned company for now, although thinking from an employee’s perspective is definately a good idea (Why? For Culture, community and communication!). No, I’m talking about the company you haul yourself out of bed for early Monday morning. You haul yourself out of that warm oasis [...]
Year after year, people make resolutions which fade into non-existence because they are unrealistic. What is an unrealistic expectation? It’s a vague result like becoming a better runner, or spending less on clothing. Vague because it has no tangible value or success criteria. Running 5km in 30 minutes is an expectation with results you can [...]
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