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Decision Making

  • 21 April 2024

    170 - Essence of strategy, rationalization, and a question on processing emotions

    For anyone who has worked in Business Development or in Ops, they would be familiar with a tension that simmers all through the year. ...

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  • 3 February 2024

    152 The “even more” strategy

    One year, at our annual offsite, the company leadership shared the mantra for the year: the Genius of the AND. ...

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Career Design

  • 9 July 2024

    174 - Do you work in an organization where everybody works one level lower than they should?

    Micromanagement tends to roll down. Everybody works one level lower than they should—this is the cascade of micromanagement. Your boss’s boss meddles in your boss’s work; your boss does your work; and you do your report’s work; and so on. ...

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  • 21 June 2024

    173 - The negotiating trick few talk about

    Negotiations are won by whoever cares less. We know this in our bones, yet tune it out too often. ...

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Leadership and Org culture

  • 9 July 2024

    174 - Do you work in an organization where everybody works one level lower than they should?

    Micromanagement tends to roll down. Everybody works one level lower than they should—this is the cascade of micromanagement. Your boss’s boss meddles in your boss’s work; your boss does your work; and you do your report’s work; and so on. ...

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  • 21 June 2024

    173 - The negotiating trick few talk about

    Negotiations are won by whoever cares less. We know this in our bones, yet tune it out too often. ...

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Personal Development

  • 11 June 2024

    172 - The difference between informing and evoking

    This newsletter has talked about the difference between feedback and observations. Feedback, especially in professional settings, has got the air of walking on eggshells. It is hard to get it right and harder for it to be consistently effective. ...

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  • 11 May 2024

    171 - Why is it so hard to say NO?

    The difficulty in saying NO is a common one. I have family who’ve never refused a dinner invitation. Friends who would rip out a fingernail than turn someone down. ...

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Entrepreneurship

  • 20 December 2023

    138 - What causes success?

    ‘And so you start to wonder—what correlates the most to success—team, product, or market? Or, more bluntly, what causes success? And, for those of us who are students of startup failure—what’s most dangerous: a bad team, a weak...

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  • 17 November 2023

    124 - How to Escape Being a Rich and Wretched Entrepreneur

    Rethinking Rules: The Netflix Approach to Building an Innovation Culture ...

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Miscellaneous

  • 11 March 2024

    164 - Three questions for your work and life

    Here are three ideas to consider and three questions to ask yourself this week: ...

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  • 12 February 2024

    155- Just knowledge does not change behavior

    If you're anything like me, you're probably consistently late with your tax investment declarations or your reimbursement proof submissions. I ignore reminders, breeze past deadlines, and am generally notorious with these...

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Habit Building

  • 4 March 2024

    162 - Laziness is exhaustion

    A client of mine who’s a clinician recently told me she feels happy any time her first patient of the day (8am slot) cancels, but right after she feels guilty for feeling good about not working....

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  • 7 August 2023

    87 - Habit-building 15: Cashing out > Cashing in

    I’ve been facing a challenge that you may be familiar with. The question of whether or not to stop mid-flow. ...

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Leadership

  • 11 April 2024

    169 - Feedback, observation, and coaching

    Over the last six months or so, I’ve clocked hours doing, what I’ve come to learn is, internal and external coaching. At work, I’ve done consistent hours of mentoring/coaching and I’ve been lucky enough to have a few paid coaching clients. ...

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