A senior business leader who is known to be a tough taskmaster and results driven, is taking over a new team. This leader has a clear idea of how to transform the new team into a high performing team. She writes a set of clear key messages and is keen to tell the vision story to the team but no matter how smart this leader is and how strategic these key messages are, the team will not perform...
The Turkish Getup is an exercise, most commonly done with kettlebells, where you are required to lift the weight overhead whilst getting up from the ground. Unlike most weight lifting exercises, Turkish Get-Ups require you to remember a sequence. I think there are around 14 steps involved in doing one Get-Up. So, the real frustration in learning to effectively do Turkish Get-Ups is not the...
*We believe that wine tastes better in a $20 glass than a $1 glass. We believe that the $200 silver ring when put in a blue Tiffany box is worth $500. *We believe that an $80,000 Porsche Cayenne is cooler than a $36,000 VW Touareg, which is virtually the same car. *We believe that $225 Pumas will make our feet feel better than $20 unbranded... and believing it, makes it true. The list goes on and...
Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and most of the world's most inspiring speakers, do not use bullet points. Why don't they use bullet points? If you have bullet points, you are making the audience listen to you and read the bullet points. That creates cognitive load. *University of Washington biologist, John Medina, has done extensive research into persuasion and how the...
When Little MissMatched came with the idea of selling 3 socks that did not match, nobody knew that they would succeed the way they did. When a Fortune 500 company decided to launch Diversity and Inclusion Campaign video with a script that said, ‘Don't engage'. Don't get involved with diversity. It doesn't generate business, it complicates things, it forces you to confront different perspectives…...
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft tells the story about his first round of interviews at Microsoft about 25 years ago. An up-and-coming Microsoft manager named Richard Tait asked Nadella a question. The question had nothing to do with coding or solving an engineering problem. Instead, Tait asked: "Imagine you see a baby laying on the street, and the baby is crying. What do you do?" Nadella quickly...