Frank Contrepois

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Are you using the MSU method?

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The MSU method, also known as Making Shit Up is widly used in all industries and works only when you are knowledgeable on the topic at hand. Don’t use it too much, most of time saying “I don’t know” or “I’m not sure” is a better strategy Read more...

Cutting corner

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What cutting corners means will vary from the level of clarity of the result (and perfectionism). So, when you are thinking that someone cutted corners, you might have simply explained the goal poorly. Read more...

The lemon approach to management

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There is a methodology of management that I find repulsive, and that bring people in cycle of burnout. I call this method the lemon approach to management and it goes like this. “If it gives juice, keep pressing harder” Don’t be a lemon Read more...

Kids at school

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First day with both kids at school, and I’m on holiday. What to do with the time? Should I: rest? do all the home project left on-hold for the last year? create something new and finish it? meditate more? do something else? Read more...

Should you share your business ideas?

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Sometimes you might have an idea for a new business. Should you share such a statement and risk it being “stolen”, or should you share it? The answer is to share it. By sharing it, you are testing it. By sharing it, you get feedback and gather reactions that can be invaluable later (if there is a later). Ideas are cheap, and the only way to have a good idea is to have many bad ones and test them. Read more...

Data driven motivation

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Data-driven-motivation is rarely heard, compared with data-driven-decisions. Yet it is behind every athlete, every result-bonus motivation scheme. Do not fall into the trap that data-driven-motivation is only based on competitiveness. Curiosity is a great driver. Wanting to know the information, to slice and dice, can be enough motivation. So next time you think about motivation, be mindful of data, but trigger curiosity, it is cheaper :) PS: this is me trying rationalising buying an expensive running watch that tells me everything. Read more...