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Disney Imagineers focus on fixing confusions

(Extracted from No B. S. Direct Marketing by Dan Kennedy) one of the Disney Imagineers we met was in charge of “fixing confusion.” At any spot in any of the parks where there was a noticeable slowing of movement...

January 17, 2020| Structure drives behaviour Read More

Employees need constant feedback

(Extracted from No B. S. Direct Marketing by Dan Kennedy) Managers bemoan employees’ failures to perform as expected, often saying, “But I told him once.” Most managers’ ideas about training omit a feedback loop...

January 17, 2020| People Read More

Circular vs linear time

(Extracted from Flights by Olga Tokarczuk) Once we’re on the bus, she sets out her theory of time. She says that sedentary peoples, farmers, prefer the pleasures of circular time, in which every object and event must...

January 16, 2020| Life Read More

Read books you enjoy and quit those you do not

(Extracted from Mark Manson’s Motherfucker Monday 13 Jan 2020) Most of us feel as though we should power through and finish 400 pages. This makes no sense. With one exception, we should all quit more books.  Our...

January 16, 2020| Inversion Read More

Smart people come up with more bullshit stories

(Excerot from Mark Manson’s Motherfucker Monday 13 Jan 2020) The smarter you are, the easier it is to come up with bullshit to avoid what makes you uncomfortable. Over the years, I’ve noticed the smartest people...

January 16, 2020| Ego, Overconfidence Bias Read More

Talents alone is risky, instil systems and controls too

(Extracted from Scale by Jeff Hoffman and David Finkel) When you scale based solely on hiring “key” people, you just create a new problem for yourself. You move the critical dependency from your shoulders to those...

January 5, 2020| People Read More

Constraints force us to be creative

(Extracted from The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday) Being outnumbered, coming from behind, being low on funds, these don’t have to be disadvantages. They can be gifts. Assets that make us less likely to commit...

January 2, 2020| Constraints Read More

Don’t follow convention, be creative and pragmatic to solve problems

(Extracted from The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday) In 1915, deep in the jungles of South America, the rising conflict between two rival American fruit companies came to a head. Each desperately wanted to acquire...

January 2, 2020| Life Read More

Goals don’t complete themselves

(Extracted from The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday) We are A-to-Z thinkers, fretting about A, obsessing over Z, yet forgetting all about B through Y....

January 2, 2020| Execution, Life Read More

Idealism isn’t enough. Realism gets results.

I believe everyone has a friend who talks about his grand dreams but never really take action to fulfil those dreams. He has been talking about it for years but there’s no progress or any achievement to show. You...

December 31, 2019| CYH Read More

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