Category: Leadership
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#66: What’s our ‘Bullet Hole Fallacy’?
Hal Varian, Chief Economist of Google declares: “The ability to take data – to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it – is going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades.” Wow. There’s so much being said in that one…
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#65: What’s our ‘failure budget’?
You have financial budgets for everything in your business, right? Budgets allocate financial resources to the various departments in your business so that they can succeed in achieving their objectives. But are you ‘resourcing risk’ – are you allowing for failure in your budgets? Because on the road to creating something remarkable, you will almost…
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#63: Is everyone in the business smarter today than they were yesterday?
Today, your business needs to be able to adapt and change quickly. Which means you need people in your business that can adapt and change quickly. In fact, your people’s ability to adapt and change quickly could be your biggest competitive advantage. So, you might want to put acquiring new knowledge on everyone’s daily to-do…
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#62: What have we got in our ‘hidden talent bank’?
There’s a difference between talent and skill. Talent is something that you can do naturally. Skill is something that you can learn to do. Very often a person’s biggest talent is NOT the skill they are getting paid for. For instance, ‘Suzy in accounts’ was always good with numbers, so she studied for accountancy ……
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#60: What’s for breakfast, honey?
Did you see it yet? The documentary about Warren Buffett? So many revealing insights into the mind of the investment legend who has amassed a $86 billion dollar fortune. And who stops by at McDonald’s every morning for a $3.17 breakfast on the way to the office! Well, it’s $3.17 on a good day. In…