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How Rework Works: Review and Observations
A hooky bag of snippets. A simple collage of truths. Or a sophisticated framework for success communicated well? Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson’s Rework – Change the Way You Work Forever, has...
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Reasons to Quit: Questions to Ensure You’re Doing Work That Matters
Fried and Heinemeier Hansson in Rework suggest the following questions to ensure you don’t ‘throw good time after bad work’: ‘Why are you doing this? What problem are you solving? – ensure it’s not an...
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Elevator Pitch Methodology
A brilliant methodology for a good elevator pitch is described by Mike Southon in his FT Column. He first describes how in sales there is the concept of “golden nuggets”. He identifies that customers...
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What is Execution?
‘Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, questioning, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability. It includes making assumptions about the business...
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The Only Three Things a Leader Should Focus On — ChiefExecutive.net
Brains—Bones—Nerves You need to put in place a few important frameworks within which a large number of people can operate in a way that maximizes their energy. The key is to control and shape the three...
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How to be an entrepreneur
During a talk last night I was asked about the key lessons that I have learnt from running several businesses. I feel hardly qualified to answer, but I am very clear on a number of aspects: The cost of...
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Five Lessons for Entrepreneurs – LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman
Five key business lessons that could serve to help entrepreneurs and other innovators as they look to the coming decade: 1. Look for disruptive change. As you are about to start a new venture, ask...
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7 Lessons from Steve Jobs’ Career
Some thinking summarised from commentary on Steve Jobs’s career – and what other leaders can practice for success: Relentless pursuit of bold ideas – protect the organisational resources required to...
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Leadership Traps: Thinking too Fast and Continuing Biases
I’ve been thinking about leadership traps I’ve read about recently (predominantly in Guy Claxton’s Hare Brain Tortoise Mind, but brought into relief by various mainstream Management Today, Fortune and...
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Managing the brain and managing the emotions…
… are absolutely two different things. I was talking with one of my client senior managers with the widest span of responsibility yesterday. They’re coping with a lot of the things that leaders have...
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Reasons to Quit: Questions to Ensure You’re Doing Work That Matters
Fried and Heinemeier Hansson in Rework suggest the following questions to ensure you don’t ‘throw good time after bad work’: ‘Why are you doing this? What problem are you solving? – ensure it’s not an...
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What is Execution?
‘Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, questioning, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability. It includes making assumptions about the business...
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