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Choose Your Words Carefully

CaseInterview.com

The words you use profoundly impact how you think and behave. It turns out the flaw in their thinking is their definition of the word "competitor." Within the company, replace the word "competitor" with the phrase "any alternative to buying from us.". I can choose to work at McKinsey or Bain, but I can't choose both.

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A Short Rant About AI and Intellectual Property Theft

Johanna Rothman

Product Development Implications If you write and integrate words from LLMs, make sure you verify each and every “fact.” And I already choose which suggestions I take in Grammarly, Google docs, and Word. Use other people's words and art as inspiration, and then write your own words. You should, too.

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Why Your Client Doesn't Care How Smart You Are (And What They Really Want to Know)

Consulting Matters

Do you see underneath their wants are deeper and more substantial needs that they are struggling to find words for? They can choose to work with another consultant and they can also choose to do the work in house. They can also choose to do nothing. But here's the thing - your clients don't care about how smart you are.

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Leadership Tip 15: Reward Meeting Behavior You Want to See

Johanna Rothman

Without using words, the leader says: Your work isn't that important to me. Which of these options do you choose, and why? Choose Congruence. Whatever you do, choose to be as congruent as you can. .” While that's what occurred , people make meaning from a senior leader being late. My previous work was more valuable.

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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

In other words, plan and measure carefully before taking action that would be difficult and costly to reverse. In other words, many founders build a great solution that then goes in search of a problem. As a result, customers voluntarily choose to use the product in favor of other alternatives. Have you asked them?

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3 lessons from psychology that can help you achieve your goals

Halo Psych

Summarise your wish in 3 to 6 words. Summarise the outcome in 3 to 6 words. Now choose one main inner obstacle that might prevent you achieving your wish. Summarise that obstacle in 3 to 6 words. Choose an effective action or effective thought that can help you overcome the main obstacle. How will you feel?

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Retire These Metaphors & Reframe the Discussion to be More Effective

Johanna Rothman

FTE for full-time Equivalent (as in human beings!) “Resources” instead of the words: people, or human beings Construction metaphors, such as: build, which describes how we organize and create a usable product. When we use the word, “build” to describe all of these, we shortchange ourselves.