My friend, Stephen, recently told me a story.
He says that you can guess the level of people by merely reading their email.
Imagine Tim writing to Chris to review a document and let’s see how the email content would evolve.
No promotion Hello Chris, how are you? I’d like to ask you if you can review the document attached. Thanks and see you soon Tim
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Blackwell Ltd of Oxford, a bookseller, got my attention even when buying on amazon. Being noticed on Amazon.com is so rare that it deserves a post.
Often, I buy books on Amazon. Most of the time, the books are sold by small shops using amazon as their online platform. The opportunity with this approach is that you are accessible by the masses; the inconvenience is that your branding is not visible.Read more...
Last time I had to search for a job, I hired a professional CV writer, the result was a good-looking CV full of buzz-words for automated-CV-selection-systems. And it did not work. If you are in creative profession, and being an executive is one, make try to be original and write your own CV.
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I love to read, both fiction and non-fiction (mostly business) books. When I find something interesting I want to save it and being able to use it in the future, when I need it. For now it is a complete failure.
Tried and failed:
writing the margins highlight using kindle notes evernote and tags the most recent is using a separate notebook, write the page and the comment They all failed, because when you try to find why on earth did I find this sentence useful really depends on the context and on a re-read that context is lost.Read more...
Today is my birthday and that triggered the following question:
When do we stop growing and start getting old?
In other words, when the apex of age? I don’t have an answer but would love to read your views.Read more...
The idea of accelerating success by emulating what successful others do is appealing. It feels like a shortcut to success. But the context of your company, your team and history, in general, means that your situation is very different from the people described in the paper.
No-one says it well as Simon Wardley in this video: When asking a General “Why did you bomb that hill?” the answer should not be “Because I read it in General Weekly and bombarding hills is the latest thing” - Me paraphrasing Simon WardleyRead more...