Seth Godin Blog

JULY 10, 2022

This is a trap worth avoiding. Either we were changed or we helped someone else get to where they sought to go. When we examine our life experiences, the ones that stand out are usually about change. And change is fleeting. And change changes us. Seeking to rank our experiences takes us out of the moment.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2020

The product development and marketing teams might either collaborate as a program or create teams to work on this.). (The The product development and marketing teams might either collaborate as a program or create teams to work on this.). Cons of OKRs (Traps). (OKRs are Objectives and Key Results.) They're big audacious goals.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Luckily, he doesn't find anything either. Even when managers try to create cross-functional teams, the teams still have dependencies. Dependencies slow and make finishing the work more difficult. Too many teams have a built-in dependency creator—code review. Jane and Peter are developers, Tim is a tester. Yes, they are.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Most people are in the middle, fewer people are at either end. So, seeking the Goldilocks equilibrium is a trap. One way to tell if the audience is happy is to ask a simple question: “Do you want it spicier?” ” (or the equivalent). In nature, many things are in fact distributed like this.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 6, 2021

Like most traps, they’re mysterious and then appealing and then it’s too late. You either own this thing or you don’t. An NFT is digital treasure chest, a status symbol and an apparent item of value. To make it really clear, consider Honus Wagner. One of the cards last sold for more than $3,000,000.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The teacher who blames the curriculum for the boring classroom experience because that’s what the state mandated… It’s a trap, like all traps, because there’s a lot of truth to it. But what we do about it is the spot where we either excel or fail. ” There are many variations of this.

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Makarios Consulting

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your business lives or dies, thrives or falters, and is energized or paralyzed not only on the basis of the actual decisions that are made but – critically – on how those decisions are made. In fact, it is possible to make the right decision but make it in the wrong way. And, guess what? The Decision to Infringe. The Decision to Ignore.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 11, 2022

Notes from previous workshops I wanted to integrate when I updated those workshops. Over the past year, as I realized the pandemic would probably change what and how I offered for workshops, I've slowly recycled or filed all that paper. I did discover some treasures among all that paper, such as bookmarks. But that's it. But maybe the data was?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Mine isn't either.). Depending on how much time I have for that presentation, I either use a simulation or a conversation for the “Practice saying No” outcome. Now that you've framed your proposal, start with what you want people to talk away from the talk, the outcomes. Your content is not right for everyone.

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The Management Centre

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This is a defence mechanism – they could be feeling caught out, threatened, trapped or even surprised. As we look back at 2020, we have had to handle some tough situations over the last year. A pandemic will do that to you. Getting prepared is vital. So: what do you do when the other person reacts badly? So, what do you do? Wait it out.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

No one will see the results either of you wants. Without enough knowledge, Dan would fall into several transformation traps. When you're starting off as a consultant, you might take the first one or two engagements a client offers. However, at some point, you'll see an engagement that is wrong. It's wrong for the client. Dan was in HR.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2019

These surges come so quickly and it’s one reason people get trapped; they think they have time when they don’t. These surges come so quickly and it’s one reason people get trapped; they think they have time when they don’t. I was watching a fascinating video on the Weather Channel app about Tropical Storm/Hurricane Barry in Louisiana.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Sales Negotiation Traps that Make the Difference between Success and Failure. Sales negotiation traps can trip you up. No one wants to lose an important sales negotiation, but unless you are either very experienced or careful to avoid four common sales negotiation traps, you may emerge as less than a winner.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

What are the top power skills that every organizational consultant ought to have? Today, I want to connect more specifically with those building an organizational consulting or coaching practice not just because of the money but because they want to make a difference. They get aggressive or shameless self-promot-y.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 12, 2021

You either love someone or you don’t. And you either trust someone or you don’t. The team looks for a real solution instead of falling into the trap of looking for someone to blame. Building trust is critical to effective leadership. This is an excerpt from The Core 4 , by Brimstone’s Managing Founder, Bob Weiler.

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1 to 1

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If 2023 was a year of revelation, zeal, and anything-is-possible hopes for artificial intelligence’s potential, 2024 is shaping up as a year of action. Twelve months of toe-dipping and healthy scrutiny provided the launchpad to make some real moves with AI in the contact center, according to two customer experience experts on a recent webinar.

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Makarios Consulting

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your business lives or dies, thrives or falters, and is energized or paralyzed not only on the basis of the actual decisions that are made but – critically – on how those decisions are made. In fact, it is possible to make the right decision but make it in the wrong way. And, guess what? The decision to infringe is an end-run around another person.

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LSA Global

JUNE 28, 2022

If not, you can be sure your team won’t either. Sadly, CEB found that 85% of employees receive no new manager training prior to switching into the role of manager. Due in large part to their never learning how to avoid the top new people manager pitfalls, 60% of new managers underperform during their first two years.

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Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 25, 2019

In the old days, that meant a house and a college education, because you’d probably earn enough from either to pay back the debt, with interest. The Times got this completely wrong yesterday, pushing people deeper into a trap that they should run away from. It turns out that paying interest on interest is a long-term trap.

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Effective Managers

DECEMBER 23, 2020

That’s why managers often fall into the trap of thinking that they either need to manage or lead their subordinates. Some would say that these two are entirely the same, and some would say that they are different. At Effective Managers™, we say that the two skills are different, and you need to know how to distinguish them.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2017

But a common trap for consultants is to roll with the flow of scope changes as they arise without renegotiating the terms of the contract. Tip 1: Clarify expectations about scope in your consultancy proposal. The very first point at which you need to manage expectations about project scope is in your consultancy proposal.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2016

They become vulnerable to what we call spending traps —where spending, whether it’s through money or time, energy, and other resources, comes to substitute for the real work of leading, managing, and executing. They come up against problems that refuse to budge no matter how hard they push.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

The faster you either release an MVE or an MVP, the more likely you are to have a return on your investment. The faster you either release an MVE or an MVP, the more likely you are to have a return on your investment. Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project.

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freshminds

AUGUST 29, 2017

It’s possible to go too far in either direction and, while erring on the side of formal is safe, tailoring your tone and exploring your own style adds a layer of authenticity to the email. For job hunters, before the first phone call or face-to-face meeting one email thread can cement an impression that could help or harm your career.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 4, 2022

As far as either of us could tell, the comments were captive in the old system. Here's a story about how technology changes one day at a time and everything is okay—until it's not. Don't want the long sad story? Go to Here's What You Missed.). A Short History of My Site. I started my site back in 1995. Why “too late?”

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2017

But a common trap for consultants is to roll with the flow of scope changes as they arise without renegotiating the terms of the contract. Tip 1: Clarify expectations about scope in your consultancy proposal. The very first point at which you need to manage expectations about project scope is in your consultancy proposal.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Human and material resources can be either acquired from a host organization or from external sources. . In a multi-project environment, ensuring productive work of team members gains even more importance: resources are shared by concurrent projects, and their fruitful work on them will be impossible without wise resource management. .

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

With questions like these being the most common ones, most organizations fall into the trap of short term thinking. Such trades have been around for hundreds and even thousands of years. Consulting, on the other hand, started as a profession only in the late 1800s, and universities started teaching it some time later.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The Spanish government on Friday dismissed a letter from Catalan leaders offering talks over their looming independence referendum as “a trap”, and announced it would intervene in Catalonia’s finances to ensure that “not one euro” of public money was used to fund the “illegal” vote.

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 26, 2014

That''s not a meeting and all the trappings of a conference call detract from the thing you were trying to do. Almost all conference calls that involve more than five people are either a lazy choice or a show of power, and should be eliminated. Everyone now knows precisely what time it is. In, out, over.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Japanization of Europe Continues Economic madness did not help Japan, and it will not cure Europe either. ECB president Mario Draghi set out to stimulate bank lending by purchasing covered bonds. Yields plunged, which is precisely what Draghi wanted. Now, the average covered bond yield of 0.53% is so low that investors won''t touch them.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

However, I view compensation as either “good enough” or “too low”. The question of when to leave your first or second job is intimate and messy. Especially if your first job is management consulting as you will be presented with many opportunities to jump into industry. A simple formula to figure out when to leave.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 26, 2014

In the Olenvka Cauldron, Nation Guard units trapped. By August 22nd, 2014 it became completely obvious that the Junta will not be able to occupy Donetsk either by August 24th, 2014 or by September 1st, 2014. Outright Military Victory by Rebels? At best, one can safely assume Kiev has nothing good to report.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The Spanish government on Friday dismissed a letter from Catalan leaders offering talks over their looming independence referendum as “a trap”, and announced it would intervene in Catalonia’s finances to ensure that “not one euro” of public money was used to fund the “illegal” vote.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2018

Meanwhile, history suggests that concentration of wealth in too few hands leads to social pressures that will either be addressed through politics or violence or both. While many people remain trapped in a day-to-day struggle for survival, a smaller percentage of humans are thus burdened. eva bee/Getty Images. ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2017

In short, he became the unintended victim trapped by what the Financial Times called “byzantine organizational politics.” The first 100 days are usually the honeymoon period for any new CEO to make their mark and get others on board. Yes, it can be self-serving. However, the reality is that politics is normal. Defining politics.

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Management Consulted

JULY 31, 2016

And while I love all that my training as a consultant gave me, please don’t fall into the trap that says “thinking like a consultant” is the best way to approach every area of your life. I had a flight out, but it wasn’t the one I should have been on. Sometimes, being a consultant is the worst.

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