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I was on a zoom call today with Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn. Here’s my lessons from the call… How do we learn Entrepreneurship? The best way of learning entrepreneurship: play boardgames… Settlers of Catan is good – there is trading, there is ambiguity, there are multiple strategies. Chess is good but no ambiguity… we… Continue reading Lessons from Reid Hoffman, EO Conversation on Zoom
Whats the most important human capability for the next thirty years? The Ability to Pay Attention To hold your attention on what you decide is important. to stay focused as it becomes boring… and to stick with something through boredom to the insights that only emerge on the other side of boredom. Today I am… Continue reading The Ability to Pay Attention
The title of this blog comes from a session in a course that Professor Paris de l’Etraz teaches about Life. I met Paris at a dinner in Madrid 4 years ago hosted by another inspiring teacher. Stand in the Traffic: I love the simplicity of this life strategy. Whatever you want in life, there are… Continue reading Stand in the Traffic
What matters most in the gym? The hours you spend or the reps on the weights? In the areas where you must be highly competent to succeed in your role: are you accumulating hours or reps? Do you just do your job or do you spend time practicing the important skills that make you effective?… Continue reading Reps vs Hours
I’m looking forward to seeing you shortly. You have watched a couple of videos about communications as a leader, about taking responsibility for your communications, about the habits of daily preparation and we talked about Aristotle’s triad of Logos, Ethos and Pathos. My lessons from the best teacher I ever had: Mr Eric Matz If… Continue reading Getting Ready for our Course Together
One of the most important aspects of good listening is learning to ask great questions. One of the most powerful questions I have learnt comes from business coach Dan Sullivan. He asks “3 years from today, what needs to change for you to be personally and professionally fulfilled?” This is not an easy question for… Continue reading The 4 Levels of Listening
There is a study from Kouzes and Pozner from 2008 that looks at employee engagement in organisations. What are the factors that influence employee engagement? Kouzes and Pozner looked at the impact of clarifying organisational values and the impact of clarifying personal values. Where an organisation helps each individual clarify their personal purpose and how… Continue reading The Importance of Being Clear on your Personal Purpose and Values
This approach to effective communications is not just about learning to deliver one specific speech, it is about learning to identify what makes a speaker effective and what specific changes would improve the impact of their communications. If you are not receiving feedback each day that hurts, you are not receiving what you need to… Continue reading How to Give & Receive Feedback
“The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is a chronic inconsistency” Jim Collins How Professionals Practice The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their approach to preparation. An amateur enjoys practice, and then suffers when the big moment arrives. The professional commits to suffer in… Continue reading How to Have Impact when you Speak (Practice)
