Corporate & Business
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How to communicate numbers…
People’s capacity for memory is enhanced when numbers are CONVERTED INTO CONCEPTS they can comprehend 🧐 📍A number may not always be necessary to communicate a point. CREATE A STORY INSTEAD, ELIMINATES THE NEED FOR NUMBERS 🤔 📚In “MAKING NUMBERS COUNT: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers” Stanford Business School professor Chip Heath and co-writer Karla Starr find that “nobody really understands numbers.” 🤯 🧠 The human brain IS NOT CAPABLE of quickly recognizing quantities BIGGER THAN FIVE. However, even someone who struggles with basic arithmetic, may understand numbers when you transform them into ANALOGIES, COMPARISONS, and CONVERSIONS 🤓 In a world that is becoming more and more dependent…
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Cuida quien te rodea
❝Un estudio de hace unos años publicado en el New England Journal of Medicine halló que la «obesidad puede contagiarse de persona a persona, casi como un virus… Cuando una persona gana peso, sus amigos íntimos ganan peso también» 💡 Según explica el catedrático de Harvard Nicholas Christakis, uno de los investigadores 👨🏻🔬 principales del estudio: «Una explicación es que los amigos afectan a la PERCEPCIÓN de la gordura. Cuando un amigo íntimo se vuelve obeso, la obesidad empieza a no parecer tan mal» 🤔 En nuestro interior, todos somos miembros de una TRIBU 🙏🏻, o de una serie de tribus, empezando con nuestras nacionalidades y familias, y extendiéndose hasta los…
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Weekly exam
1️⃣ Wake up with energy 🔌2️⃣ Be thankful 🙏🏻3️⃣ Laugh 😆4️⃣ Focus on what I can control 🎯5️⃣ Winners learn 👨🏻🔬, losers complain 😩6️⃣ Reinforce other people’s achievements ✅7️⃣ Speak well of someone 💬8️⃣ Surround with those who give me positive experiences ∑9️⃣ Help others with my actions ☺️🔟 Imitate the best 🏄🏼♂️
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Customer innovation
“When scanning for signals of EMERGING CHANGE, the difficulty is not in finding information; it is in WHAT TO ATTEND to and what you can ignore.”Marion Debruyne. The perspective of your existing customers views the market close up and in depth. This narrow market view gives you the clearest and MOST RELIABLE PICTURE. Your goal is to UNDERSTAND 🧐 and UTILIZE the INSIGHTS 💡your customers can offer. HELP YOUR CUSTOMERS TO IMPROVE THEIR RESULTS‼️ Many companies prioritize innovation, but incremental and breakthrough changes are challenging 🏄🏼♂️ Try to pursue opportunities for small improvements. Making frequent small-step product/services fixes requires a culture that EMBRACES CHANGE, and so does implementing market-changing breakthroughs…
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Customer innovation
“When scanning for signals of EMERGING CHANGE, the difficulty is not in finding information; it is in WHAT TO ATTEND to and what you can ignore.” Marion Debruyne. The perspective of your existing customers views the market close up and in depth. This narrow market view gives you the clearest and MOST RELIABLE PICTURE. Your goal is to UNDERSTAND 🧐 and UTILIZE the INSIGHTS 💡your customers can offer. HELP YOUR CUSTOMERS TO IMPROVE THEIR RESULTS‼️ Many companies prioritize innovation, but incremental and breakthrough changes are challenging 🏄🏼♂️ Try to pursue opportunities for small improvements. Making frequent small-step product/services fixes requires a culture that EMBRACES CHANGE, and so does implementing market-changing…
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Change your world
❝Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR OTHERS?’❞(Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.) Are you ready to step up and CHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER – and in the process, CHANGE YOURSELF as well? If not, you may suffer from the defeatist mind-set that afflicts many people. That contagious negativity confines you to a small box that prevents you from making a positive difference. Moving from passive non-involvement OBSERVER 🧐 to an ACTIVE PROBLEM SOLVER 👨🏻🔬 is a 4️⃣-step process. 📌 “I WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE” – You need conviction, compassion and hope 🤩. Doing good makes people feel good.📌 “WITH PEOPLE WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE” – The…
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Amplitud
La HIPERESPECIALIZACIÓN es un desafío en el mundo actual, pues la cantidad de conocimiento humano es más vasta que nunca. El conocimiento público se expande rápidamente, permitiendo que los PERFILES CURIOSOS contribuyan a resolver problemas que antes solo manejaban los especialistas. ¡Qué difícil es presentar conceptos complejos de una forma sencilla! David Epstein lo consigue en “RANGE” 📚Contribuye a ello quizás su experiencia en Sports Illustrated, donde debe escoger un perfil amplio que le garantice alcanzar una vasta audiencia 🏄🏼♂️ Hablando de especialistas, defiende Epstein, que se enfocan tanto en detalles propios de su campo que llegan incluso a distorsionar su pensamiento. Su experiencia en la ZONA DE DOMINIO les…
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Strategic Agility
❝STRATEGIC AGILITY❞ is the ability to IMPROVE PERFORMANCE— not just survive, but thrive— AMID DISRUPTION. MICHAEL WADE and others share in last HBR “Special Spring ’22” 𝐒𝐈𝐗 PRINCIPLES to Build Your Company’s Strategic Agility 1️⃣ Prioritize SPEED over perfection 🚅 Opportunities come and go quickly during a crisis, so organizations need to be ready and WILLING TO ACT QUICKLY, even if they sacrifice quality and predictability in the process. 2️⃣Prioritize FLEXIBILITY over planning ↔️Strategy is often taught in business schools as a cascade of choices around where to play and how to win. However, in a crisis, a strategic plan can easily become an anchor that locks an organization onto a path…
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Doing less
The role of business leaders in an ADAPTABLE ORGANIZATION has to be reviewed according to Joerg Esser (impressive profesional profile!) 👨🏫 In traditional organizations, the person at the top focuses on making operational decisions, especially the big ones 🤔 In ADAPTABLE organizations, the leader focuses on FACILITATING the right environment. 😌 How can you know if you’re currently doing too much, getting overlyinvolved in the nitty-gritty of operations? 😥 Here’s a quick exercise he use that will show you whether you’re holding the reins too tight and failing to allow emergence to work its magic ✍🏽Count the number of decisions you make in the course of a day. If you’re constantly…
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Innovation can deliver important benefits to competition
In the late 1880s Almon Strowger👨🏻💼 was THE ONLY UNDERTAKER IN TOWN 💀, so he ran quite a profitable business 🙊. Suddenly he noticed his work had dropped off considerably 📉 , and that there was a new undertaker in town 😳. Curious as to why so many were going to this new undertaker instead of him 🤔. Strowger found out it was because the TELEPHONE OPERATOR ☎️ was married to this other undertaker‼️ When anyone called for Stowger’s business, she would direct them to her husband. (At that time when anyone placed a call they had to first call in an operator who would then connect them to their…
