Sunday, November 19th, 2017
Once again, I started the week off by reading a post by Jeff Haden with Inc.com: Want to Be Much Happier? Science Says Always Do Any 1 of These 8 Things, about the many unexpected and counter-intuitive ways to find happiness.We all want to find happiness, but it isn't always easy - so we could do with more places to look for it. And Jeff Haden comes up with eight good places to search.
Monday, November 20th, 2017
Monday, I found Julie Winkle Giulioni's piece with SmartBrief.com on 4 mindsets needed for a better talent pipeline.I totally agree with understanding that one of the most important priorities of a leader is to attract, develop and retain the best possible employees, and I especially like the idea that a responsible leader should consider what the entire organization needs - not just sub-optimize her own department.
Too many corporations do not do their best, simply because doubtful key performance indicators tempt mediocre people to prioritize what will make themselves shine or profit, rather than considering the best interests in the bigger picture.
Tuesday, November 21st, 2017
I think most of us have tried attending brainstorming sessions that should lead us into a glorious future, just to experience that afterwards, nothing really happened - because the ideas were never turned into real innovation. Not only is it hugely disappointing in the moment - it also makes us attend such session with much less enthusiasm in the future.
Therefore, it was with great interest that I read the piece by Frances Goh of Collective Campus on How To Evaluate Ideas, which describes methods to choose the best ideas to carry through to implementation.
Therefore, it was with great interest that I read the piece by Frances Goh of Collective Campus on How To Evaluate Ideas, which describes methods to choose the best ideas to carry through to implementation.
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017
Wednesday, it was another of my very good Twitter friends, Garima Patet, who attracted my attention to Shep Hyken's text on customer service with the rather obvious title Don't Be Ridiculous.
This ought to be common sense, but unfortunately, in a lot of places, it isn't. So it is a very good idea to follow Shep Hyken's advice. Otherwise, it will eventually be bad for your customer base.
This ought to be common sense, but unfortunately, in a lot of places, it isn't. So it is a very good idea to follow Shep Hyken's advice. Otherwise, it will eventually be bad for your customer base.
Thursday, November 23rd, 2017
I read an good piece on complex decision making by Pat McDaniel who in the text How To Make A Difficult Decision: Surprising Research Can Help attributes a fascinating conclusion to the Dutch professor of psychology Ap Dijksterhuis: interestingly enough, you make the best complex decisions by rationally acquiring all the information needed to make a decision, leaving it up to your unconscious mind to digest it - and then your intuition will point you to what almost certainly is the best choice.
I do not know about you, bu this is certainly going to somewhat influence my decision making in the future.
I do not know about you, bu this is certainly going to somewhat influence my decision making in the future.
Friday, November 24th, 2017
Angela Kochuba, another inspiring tribe member, posted a link, which led me to a text, written by The Mind Tools Content Team from mindtools.com.
The text: The Ladder of Inference: How to Avoid Jumping to Conclusions aptly points out that we do not act based directly on facts - we act based on beliefs, which are in turn based upon conclusions, which are in turn based upon assumptions, which are in turn... - all the way down to the reality and the facts which have been filtered and processed over and over again to end up in how we act.
To me, this text made me very aware that it is important that we take our time to consider our reasoning and act accordingly.
The text: The Ladder of Inference: How to Avoid Jumping to Conclusions aptly points out that we do not act based directly on facts - we act based on beliefs, which are in turn based upon conclusions, which are in turn based upon assumptions, which are in turn... - all the way down to the reality and the facts which have been filtered and processed over and over again to end up in how we act.
To me, this text made me very aware that it is important that we take our time to consider our reasoning and act accordingly.
Saturday, November 25th, 2017
I recently started following Avil Beckford on Twitter, and one of the first posts I found in her feed directed me to the article that Shana Lebowitz wrote on 9 Words and Phrases That Make People Think You're Less Accomplished and Smart Than You Really Are.
On a high level level, I am still struggling a bit with heading #4 - "Instead of 'why' say 'what'" - as I am otherwise a strong believer in asking both "why?" and "why not?" - but when reading the text itself, I agree that in difficult situations, "what shall we do next?" is much more powerful that "why did we get here?"
An in any case, I appreciate any text that makes me reflect about my language - the more conscious we are about what we say, the better possibilities we have to understand each other.
On a high level level, I am still struggling a bit with heading #4 - "Instead of 'why' say 'what'" - as I am otherwise a strong believer in asking both "why?" and "why not?" - but when reading the text itself, I agree that in difficult situations, "what shall we do next?" is much more powerful that "why did we get here?"
An in any case, I appreciate any text that makes me reflect about my language - the more conscious we are about what we say, the better possibilities we have to understand each other.
Almost a month into the execution of this crazy idea I had, I know for sure that this helps me keeping track of a lot of the fascinating texts I read over time - and I continue to hope the above will be able to inspire you in your reading as well.
As we enter December, I hope you stay tuned for seven new things next week.
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