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Adapted from an original post by Andy Nulman
The combination of care and understanding is key not just to making the sale, but to delivering the product on a regular and high-level basis.
Examples are many, but a real timely one given the mega-opening of The Hunger Games film is how director Gary Ross landed the director [...]
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An original post from Andy Nulman
So I’m meeting with the President of a major Canadian corporation. Flanked by his executive team, he sits down at the boardroom table and opens up the meeting with this unequivocal statement:
“We are here to do this deal.”
One by one, his exec team puts a caveat to his statement.
“Well, [...]
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An original post by Derek Sivers
Trying to pursue many different directions at once, but not making progress?
Frustrated that the world wants you to pick one thing, because you want to do them all?
The problem is you’re thinking short-term.
Acting as if you don’t do them all this week, they won’t happen.
The solution is to think long-term.
Do [...]
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An original post from: John Caswell
“Don’t stop until you’ve figured out the root cause. Then don’t stop…”
The big successful brands already have a big idea, they are successful – in many cases they’ve been in existence for over a 100 years. The issue is that as they grew, they grew problems within the system.
Whether a [...]
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An original post by Derek Sivers
What I’m about to tell you is one of the most interesting things I’ve read or heard in the last few months, and I know you’re going to love it, so please read to the end.
The Marshmallow Experiment
40 years ago, at a nursery school at Stanford University, psychology professor Walter [...]
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An original post by: Seth Godin
First rule of decision making: More time does not create better decisions.
In fact, it usually decreases the quality of the decision.
More information may help. More time without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
Deciding now frees up your most valuable asset, time, so you can go work on something else.
What [...]
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An original post from Andy Nulman
It’s been a week of getting things done and not getting things done at Just For Laughs. And here’s what I noticed as I watched both:
For a project, any project, to be successful, it needs three very distinct people (or groups of people) to pull it off:
1) Conceivers
2) Developers [...]
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An original post from: Jim Clemmer
It’s that exciting period before Christmas when kids cram for their big performance review. Where will the big guy watching from the North Pole mark them on the naughty-nice scale? Will it be enough to get them into the next gift bracket?
In the hustle and bustle of your own cramming, [...]
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An original post from Bryan Eisenberg
Think about the typical command and control corporate bureaucracy that exists in most companies. All those layers of management were best suited for the Industrial Revolution’s factory model of doing business. For over a century that worked fine, but that model is ill-suited to today’s environment.
Change is the one business concept [...]
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An original post by: John Caswell
“Intangibles now drive everything. Don’t just measure what can be measured…”
For many years the ‘idea’ of measuring fixed assets has been the fashion. The only yardstick. While this is understandable – and not completely wrong – in the 21st Century it misses the mark by a mile. It misses the [...]
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