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These are my notes from reading the short article Strategy and the Fat Smoker by David Maister. As we come up to the season of new year’s resolutions, I took some time to reflect on what it takes to make change happen in our lives, and in our businesses. David Maister is a former Harvard… Continue reading I know what I want to do, so why don't I do it?
It is a trade off. Charlie Munger said in a recent interview: “if you take lots of heroin, you’ll be very happy over the next 3 weeks… but the long term impact is catastrophic” How to balance short term enjoyment with long term fulfillment? Reflection in this video is on this balance between habits for… Continue reading Short term Happy vs Long term Fulfilled
How to live a fulfilling human life? Abraham Maslow was the first psychologist to look specifically at what it takes to live a healthy, fulfilling human life. Prior to Maslow, psychology was focussed on dealing with mental illness and abnormality. Maslow suggested that to be happy, it is not sufficient to just remove sadness. The… Continue reading Living A Fulfilling Human Life: Meeting The 6 Emotional Needs
IESE Business School Professors Mireia Gine, Yago de la Cierva, Mike Rosenberg, Mireia de las Heras and Javier Diaz-Gimenez share 5 important business trends for 2020. What are the Business Trends for 2020? Purpose is on the boardroom agenda, it is no longer sufficient to “turn a profit” Social Intelligence is the key type of… Continue reading Business Trends for 2020: The year of Purpose
Great leaders have high levels of self awareness. One element of self awareness is a good understanding of how human beings differ in terms of personality. The big 5 personality traits can be remembered with the acronym OCEAN. OCEAN Trait descriptions and impact on job performance. Openness, inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious; Openness is positively related to proactivity at the… Continue reading Self Awareness: The Big 5 Personality Traits
How to begin vlogging on YouTube This is based on my last 5 years of youtubing (now at 185,000 subscribers, over 17M video views) and over 11 years of maintaining a regular blog here at http://www.conorneill.com. My advice to you… point 5 is by far the single most important tip. 8 Tips for Vlogging Success Do it… Continue reading How to use YouTube to Build Your Business and Personal Brand
Shoshin (初心) is a word from Zen Buddhism meaning “beginner’s mind.” It refers to having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when studying a subject, even when studying at an advanced level, just as a beginner would. “Sometimes, what you already know gets in the way of what you need to Learn” George Gan… Continue reading Beginner’s Mind
There are 3 reasons why a human being makes a change in their habits. If you want to effect a change in your life, or help another with a change that they say they want to make in their life – there are 3 levers that can increase the likelihood that change happens. The 3… Continue reading The 3 Reasons we Change
Marketing has changed greatly over the last 100 years. The ideas of Sigmund Freud about self and our identity have shifted how marketers persuade us to buy. As we watch the rise of populist political movements around the world, I wanted to reflect on how political “marketing” has evolved. In the first half of the… Continue reading The Century of the Self
The most important part of leadership? Ensuring that the team, the organisation, the institution, the vision and mission can live on after you. It is hard to let go of the ego part of you that enjoys being “needed”. It is difficult to accept that there needs to be a future beyond you. If an… Continue reading The most important part of leadership…