Category: Team
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#21: What if our superstars left tomorrow?
Let’s be frank. It’s hard as hell to find great talent nowadays … In fact, this is one of the biggest complaints I hear lately. And don’t get me started on the difficulty of finding superstars. You know … those rare individuals that have the blood of King Midas running through their veins. It seems…
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#20: Why aren’t we experimenting more?
What’s the ‘secret’ to the most successful and innovative companies on the planet (think Hewlett Packard, 3M, Procter & Gamble, Toyota – those kinda businesses)? Answer: Experimentation. Or more accurately, they have a culture of what Tim Cook (founder of Intuit) calls ‘frugal experimentation’. Cook spent four years researching successful companies and identified ‘frugal experimentation’…
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#19: Who hasn’t read ‘How To Win Friends And Influence People’ yet?
Warren Buffett was showing a documentary making film crew around his office when he told them: “In my office, you will not see the degree I have from the University of Nebraska, or the master’s degree I have from Columbia University, but you’ll see the certificate I got from the Dale Carnegie course I took.”…
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#12: What could we achieve if we allowed ourselves to imagine failure?
Steve Jobs once said … ‘You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards.’ True that. With hindsight, everyone can tell you what should have been done. So if you had it, every plan would work out – right? So, give this rear-view mirror technique a try when you’re working…
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#05: What have we stopped doing that used to work really well?
There’s an old joke about consultants … The consultant asks you: ‘How have you solved this challenge in the past?’ You tell them and they say: ‘Do that again’ and send you an invoice. When you’re faced with a ‘new’ challenge take an inventory of how you’ve solved the same or similar challenges in the…