Pinkcast 4. Advice from Bob Sutton: Do people leave encounters with you with more energy or less?
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Beta test 3. Why you should take notes by hand
[video_embed url=”https://vimeo.com/158031392″ autoplay=”true”] LINKS: The underlying research: The Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Notetaking by Pam Mueller at Princeton and Daniel Oppenheimer at UCLA. Articles on the Mueller-Oppenheimer research: Scientific American, Harvard Business Review, APS News. My favorite paper notebooks: Field Notes My favorite source for pencils: CW Pencil Enterprise I process my handwritten
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Interview with Steven D. Lockshin, author of Get Wise to Your Advisor
All of us could use some advice on how to manage our finances. But Steven D. Lockshin says we ought to heed a billboard-sized warning: Be careful out there. “[T]he financial advice industry,” he says in his important new book Get Wise to Your Advisor: How to Reach Your Investment Goals Without Getting Ripped Off,
How to Pitch Better: The Rhyming Pitch
Here’s the latest in our series of short videos based on Chapter 7 of To Sell is Human. The message of this one: Perhaps it’s time for you to rhyme.
How to Pitch Better: The Email Pitch
In the second short video based on Chapter 7 of To Sell is Human, wherein I reveal the six successors to the elevator pitch, we answer this urgent question: How do you craft an effective email subject line?
How to Pitch Better: The Question Pitch
Today we begin a new series of short videos based on Chapter 7 of To Sell is Human, wherein I reveal the 6 successors to the elevator pitch. Up first is The Question Pitch, which shows when you should use the interrogative to make your case (and when you should avoid it).
The 6 essential lessons of a satisfying, productive career
Just in time for graduation season, Johnny Bunko is here to remind you of the 6 essential lessons of any satisfying, productive career: 1. There is no plan. Make decisions for fundamental, not instrumental, reasons. 2. Think strengths, not weaknesses. What do you consistently do well? What gives you energy rather than drains it? 3. It’s not
Dan Ariely’s revised model of labor
Below is a fantastic TED Talk from Dan Ariely on why people work hard, when they’re willing to make extreme efforts, and how easy it is to crush their motivation. Among the insights and provocations: “Ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their eyes.” “Is efficiency
Are you inside the circle or outside?
The annotated map below has been lighting up the the social mediasphere in the last couple days — and for good reason. It forces those of us outside the circle (I’m looking at you, America) to ponder what the next century will really be like.