Some people consider that feedback can only be positive. If it’s not positive it’s criticism, drag or something else that’s not useful. Actually, any of the above can be feedback, it only matters how you see it and what’s your attitude towards it. A lot of people can get depressed and lose hope and motivation …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Reduce drag
Drag is everything that is slowing you down, that prevents your project from taking off, anything and everything that makes you lose speed and productivity. In a lot of companies, especially in big multinationals, procedures are one of the main sources of drag. This is why most innovation, flexibility and creativity comes from start-ups and …
Learn to share
Sharing is one of the most important aspects of any professional life. No success can be achieved without sharing your work, products, solutions, innovations and creations with others. But simply sharing what you have done is not enough. We live in a world full of noise and information that comes from all directions. This is …
The value of your time
A few years back I stumbled upon an interesting statistics about how much money Bill Gates makes each second. To put it simply, he makes so much money per second that if he’s walking on the street and he sees a 100$ bill on the ground it’s not worth it to stop from where he’s …
Connect with your customers
One way to sales success is to stop thinking about making a lot of sales to as many people as possible and increase the number of sales to everyone who will make a purchase from you. Stop looking for a big number of one time customers and focus on repeated sales. This means that you …
Loss aversion
Loss aversion refers to people’s tendency to prefer avoiding a loss to gaining something. What this means is that people avoid taking chances if there is a possibility of losing something. There are a lot of studies on loss aversion that show that the gain has to be at least twice as big as the …
Famous for being famous
There is a group of people that seem to be famous for nothing really. They haven’t done anything of real value for society, they don’t do any hard, important work, they haven’t invented or innovated anything, yet they are world known. These are usually the kind of people who create buzz around them, but not …
Keep in touch with reality
Keeping it real doesn’t mean losing your creative side, forgetting about innovation, or to stop dreaming. It means that you have to stay in touch with your self, to be in constant touch with the environment and the people around you. The most important things you will be able to achieve when it comes to …
Focus on the things you can control
A lot of people try to predict and control things that are about to happen. It’s important for their personal life, for their business and for others around them who depend on that. Doctors try to predict how the disease will evolve and what actions you must take, the weather channel tries to predict how the …
Is there a myth of multitasking
There are a great deal of studies and research regarding multitasking and the efficiency or better said the inefficiency of it. I won’t debate this, even though it’s clear that one will be more efficient focusing on a sole activity rather than trying to do several at the same time. My concern is about how …