Corporate & Business
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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…
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Presentations – Keynotes
❝Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to SPEAK, your ability to WRITE, and the QUALITY OF YOUR IDEAS. In that order.❞ 👨🏼🏫 Patrick WINSTON. I’m ending a workweek in which I had opportunities to share insights in different 🖥 Zoom meetings with colleagues. Honestly talking, one of the tasks I love the most in my day-job 😜 📌 Here you are some tips adapted from Winston that I -usually- have in mind when I have to deliver a talk: 💥 DO NOT START WITH A JOKE (let’s leave it for last). I love the sense of humor, but I try not to start making jokes…
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Your walking boots
🥾“Your walking boots / 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕒𝕪 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝔸ℂ𝕋 \ are SEEN and EVALUATED by those in your environment each and every day.” ✏️The Swiss Army Knife for Leaders – Gabriel Anthonio
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Flow Theory
🏕Indians in the Shuswap region of Canada🍁, were settled down in a place filled with resources, and life was good, and they had everything they needed… but the elders 👴🏼 would make sure that the entire village would just pack up and move to a new location every 25 or 30 years 🧐 This way, they knew they would have NEW PLACES TO EXPLORE🌲and hunt 🎣 and fish and NEW CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME… 🤔 😩You don’t want what you’re doing to be TOO CHALLENGING, otherwise you’ll have ANXIETY.🥱You don’t want what you’re doing to be TOO EASY FOR YOUR SKILLS either, otherwise you’ll be BORED. It’s when you balance these…
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Changing
What a company need from their leaders is changing. Their top people must be able to reimagine the company’s place in the world and transform the organization to live up TO A MORE AMBITIOUS PURPOSE ☘️ That will mean fundamental change not only in the executives themselves but also in HOW THEY COLLECTIVELY MANAGE AND LEAD THE FIRM. In a 2021 survey 🧐 of 515 businesspeople from around the world, respondents placed high importance on leaders’ ability to balance the paradoxical demands inherent in SIX KEY ROLES: • STRATEGIC EXECUTOR 🔭 Has bold, ambitious ideas as well as the practical capabilities needed to realize visions. • TECH-SAVVY HUMANIST 🎨 Drives…
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Photographies
👨🏼🏫 On the first day of class, Jerry Uelsmann, a professor at the University of Florida, divided his film photography students 📸 into TWO GROUPS. 🟢Everyone on the left side of the classroom, he explained, would be in the “QUANTITY” group. They would be graded solely on the AMOUNT of work they produced. On the final day of class, he would tally the NUMBER OF PHOTOS submitted by each student. One hundred photos would rate an A, ninety photos a B, eighty photos a C, and so on. 🔵Everyone on the right side of the room would be in the “QUALITY” group. They would be graded only on the EXCELLENCE…
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Habits
❝A good start is half the battle.❞ – Plato 🏛 In order to make habits ‘stick,’ we need to make them AUTOMATIC and EASY. Therefore, reducing the ⚡️ACTIVATION ENERGY⚡️ involved in a task much less energy to sustain it as a habit. Have you ever procrastinated doing something for days or weeks only to eventually get around to doing it 😢, and realizing it wasn’t so bad after all? In fact, once you got started, perhaps it was pretty straight-forward, and not nearly as taxing as you’d anticipated. 🤔 THAT’S BECAUSE THE ACT OF STARTING 🎬 REQUIRED THE MOST EFFORT. In chemistry, ⚡️ACTIVATION ENERGY⚡️ refers to the minimum effort required to…
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Salespeople
🤖 Technology is transforming sales and reinventing the role of salespeople. “Thanks” to technology, CUSTOMERS WILL DEAL WITH HUMAN SALES AGENTS FOR ONLY 𝟭𝟱﹪ OF THEIR OVERALL SALES EXPERIENCES. The traditional salesperson 👨🏻💼 won’t completely vanish, but those who retain their jobs will face radically redefined professional roles. Expect the future to bring a “sales-tech arms race” as companies hustle to recruit expert salespeople who have the capabilities to “match the technology.” 👩🏻💻 “Automation of back-office processes and the complete outsourcing of the sales function, enabled in part by precisely this technology shift, are REDRAWING THE LINES OF SALES MANAGEMENT. Given the scarcity of highly qualified talent TO MANAGE BIG DATA🔎…
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Deep change
🎓 DEEP PERSONAL CHANGE requires a psychologically astute, well-conceived and systematic program, as offered by change management consultant Damian Hughes 🧑🏻💻. ✍️YOUR ATTITUDE IS A CHOICE YOU MAKE. YOU (should🤔) CONTROL YOUR FEELINGS, BELIEFS AND BEHAVIOR. RELY ON EMOTIONS, not reason, to make changes in your life‼️ Using a process of “see-FEEL-change” is more effective than following a process of “analyze-THINK-change.” Change requires SELF-KNOWLEDGE 🧘🏼 and a positive attitude 😎. · 📝 “Address the 4️⃣ Big Needs” To bring about positive change, you must CONTROL YOUR FEELINGS as well as ACKNOWLEDGING THEM. So, address your four primary emotional needs: · 🧏🏻 “FEELING VALUED” – People feel good about themselves when they…
