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Category: Management
Slowing time to accomplish more
Want to trigger a tantrum in a toddler? Here are the magic words: "In a minute." One minute, as a proportion of a child’s life, is so much longer than that of an adult. A minute, to a toddler lasts forever because of how their brain perceives time. Conversely, as you grow older, time seems …
Is your boss is unfairly checking up on you?
Sometimes I hear people say that they don’t understand why their boss wants to review their plan with them. Why their boss insists on check-in meetings to make sure everything is going okay. I’m a [fill in the blank] leader, they say, it’s my job to manage this stuff. Why are they checking up on …
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If You Can Make It There..
Poor Zach Wilson. Everyone is on his case because he’s not Aaron Rodgers and the Jets are losing big. It’s Zach’s fault, they say, he doesn’t do his homework, he can’t read the field. (He really can’t.) But… But Zach Wilson is not the first top draft pick that has failed at the Jets. The …
Are you the cork in the champagne bottle?
I was chatting with someone a few week ago who told me they thought they were ready for promotion. I cheered them on and asked what skills they needed to demonstrate to put themselves in a position where they were the obvious candidate for that role. They replied that they were really good at their …
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