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How To Navigate Difficult Conversations
Sooner or later you will have a difficult conversation with your team.
Give a Better Reply Than “I’m Busy”
If you were asked how your day has been, there’s a good chance that you’d include the word “busy” somewhere in your answer.
Forget SMART Goals, Set CLEAR Goals Instead
It’s another new year! The good news is that you’ve set new and ambitious goals for yourself.
Want a Promotion? Fire Yourself.
In firing yourself, he reasoned, you focus your productivity on stabilizing what you used to do in order to free yourself for the better things you had always hoped to be doing.
Interview Tip: Gather Intel While You Wait
Physically being in a space exposes you to information and resources that simply aren’t available in company reports or on the internet.
Find Your Hedgehog & You’ll Find Your Purpose
The fox keeps trying new ways to eat the hedgehog, but the hedgehog wears him out by doing his one trick:
When Modesty Becomes Rude
It’s not uncommon to struggle with how to respond to compliments, but immediately defaulting to humility may not have the effect you intended.
To Be the Best, You Need to Be 10x Better
Whether you’re creating an innovative mobile user interface or a brand new web series, competition in the creative industry is as stiff.
How One Meeting Can Waste 300,000 Company Hours
The number of people at a meeting can exponentially depletes the company’s time.
Innovation Requires Failure
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman famously said, “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
Kill The Dreaded Status Meeting
We’ve all been to the notorious status meeting, where in a round-robin fashion everyone says what they’re working on.
Authentic Ways To Network
To enjoy all the benefits of social currency, you first have to build it.
Struggling to Explain? Say It like They’re Twelve.
Have you ever met with blank stares when trying to explain a difficult concept?
Embrace JOMO (Joy of Missing Out)
FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) often leads you to reluctantly accept invitations to things that ultimately drain your time and energy.
Big Sean on Big Dreams
But from a young age, Big Sean knew he was going to be a famous rapper. “I knew I was gone make it” he said. “I just ain’t know how – but I knew.”
In Most Meetings, 3 People Are Doing 70% of the Talking
Consider the idea, not the source.
Tom Ford on Capitalizing on Your Passion
Not everyone is cut out for the fashion industry.