Tag: advice
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Day 868 and Chunks – Knowing what your or your organization’s goals are in enough difficult to come up with a to do list is difficult.
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Why Are You Doing This? (Wrong Answers Only) – Some of these are mostly (only?) for companies focused on profitless-growth and raising their valuation (startups and recently IPO’ed tech companies). If you’re at a company focused on cashflow and more long term share price, many of them are what you should be doing. In the…
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The Definition Of “More From Less” In B2B Content Strategy And Operations – The best tip here to focus a lot on recycling what you have already. I agree: there’s always a lot of assets and not near enough promotion and reuse/remixing of them. // “When asked about their perception of the content that they…
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How To Be Resilient: 5 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard –
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Sometimes, you need start with the explanation and see what opinion fits
These 5 tactics are good for a 13 year old student or an adult knowledge worker Here are the five test taking and essay test taking tips I shared with Cormac: If you’re doing the assignment in Google Docs, or whatever, of possible, copy and paste the questions into your document. This way, you have…
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Google is not hardcore enough, or…wait…maybe it sounds like a great place to work – a Rorschach test
*If I had more time, the Excel macro jokes would be better.* *Suggested sound track for this episode:* download share download share Embed this albumsmallmediumlarge Email: – – – Sorry, this track or album is not available. Sorry, this player does not support your browser. Your browser must either support native…
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Launchpad
The Bad Child For the most part, I think of therapy as gaslighting. The work (usually in my experience, at least) is about two things (1) making you accept the situation you’re in, and, (2) making changes in how you act and think. The part where you’re encouraged to talk more and “let people” in…
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The finger-wagger is usually just me finger-wagging at myself
# A reminder that having fun is possible It’s hard finding fun – and especially joy – in life. Family is frequently just about getting through the every day grind and fighting to have some time to “hear myself thinking.” Even getting together with friends can seem like planning an all hands meeting. Beware of…
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Art as Therapy, your house edition; therapy from Jeb Bush, have an ask; burn the hatchet
(I’ve been consolidating all the past places I’ve had newsletters. If you got this email in error, or don’t want it, here is the unsubscribe link. I apologize for the merge-madness.) Epigraph for this issue: it’s probably fine. Theme song: “Rise,” Herb Alpert. The Beautiful House As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young I…
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Man in yellow suit on a bike, “helpful” advice, a cassette tape, and links
First, this delightful picture: . It’s a mid-week newsletter. Why? It feels like something helpful to do, sort of therapeutic. I’ve left a few self-promotion, things I’ve made things off the past two newsletters. Lucky you they’re below! As a reminder, we’ve started the Tanzu Talk podcast back up, so you should subscribe to it…
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Cynical Tactics for Change Management, Summer Hurry Up And Wait
Scroll to the bottom for my daughter’s favorite joke. Cynical Tactics for Change Management Most people don’t want to change. And why would they? What they’ve done to this point has been successful: they’re still here! Most people want stability in their day-to-day life, not the risks of trying new things all the time. So…
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How to write better copy for the while “digital transformation” urgency, “change or die” thing
Two pieces of writing advice for when your goal is to communicate, not (just) entertain. Scroll to the bottom for a Yacht Rock playlist. Hold the reader’s hand Here’s a piece of writing advice that seems annoying at first, but is especially needed in most non-fiction books: tell people what you’re about to tell them,…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #51
Lots of original content this week, and unstructured tips on moderating a panel. Since it’s been two weeks, a passel of links too. We fear change This is a the first new talk I’ve done in awhile. It came out alright – I could do a lot more commentary on the existing organization change models,…
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Be less reliable – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #49
How I find time to make thumbnails for my enterprise videos. Sorry, I flaked The most operational self-help tactic I’ve learned in years is: get comfortably flaking out on things. Missing meetings, being late delivering things, being unreliable, skipping studying Dutch today (and tomorrow)…just failing at living up to your full potential. This thinking works…
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🗂 Link: How Couples Share “Cognitive Labor” and Why it Matters – Behavioral Scientist
When I sorted through the hundreds of examples that emerged, I found four primary activities appeared over and over: anticipating a need, identifying options for filling it, deciding among the options, and monitoring the results. Chelsea, for example, noticed her toddler waking up progressively earlier each morning and envisioned her hours of sleep dwindling (anticipation).…
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🗂 Link: Interviewing Users
The critical failing of user interviews is that you’re asking people to either remember past use or speculate on future use of a system. Both types of responses are extraordinarily weak and often misleading. Source: Interviewing Users
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Assume that rivals will exercise their options
If you give someone an option, even if it seems like one you don’t want, assume the worst and act/protect yourself accordingly: In the Rent-A-Center deal, there was actually a lot of work to do, and it distracted Vintage from the extension deadline. In the Van Halen deal, there wasn’t particularly, so Monk cleverly created a lot…
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