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When using questions can be a bad idea
An email came across my desk this week as I was thinking about the most useful idea for you that would build on last week's focus of 'saying what you mean'.It was an email from a tool that I use which was structured around a list of questions (see below).To me, using...
How to correlate your effort with your end game
Do you wonder how much effort to invest in different pieces of communication? Do you prioritise according to ... who your audience is the type of document it is (email, paper, PowerPoint?) how much time you have to prepare it, or the business impact it will generate?...
How ‘constraints' help create meaning
It is fascinating to me that the whole idea of 'constraints' feels like more of a limitation than a liberation. Nobody - me included - likes being kept in physical or intellectual shackles and yet they are incredibly powerful. Liberating, even. If we trust a simple...
2 Critical Ingredients for Making Complex Stories Look Simple
Last week I mentioned that I have been working on some huge stories lately, and that these have been instructive in many ways. One of the most comforting is that even huge stories look simple when they are done: it's just that the process for getting there isn't so...
How ‘constraints' can turbo charge your impact
We have had a great start to the Clarity in Problem Solving Program and one topic that has jumped out to me during our initial two live workshops has been 'constraints'. It is I think human (or maybe just me?!) to shy away from constraints and prefer to trust our own...
New job offer after ‘Best Ever' Presentation
Brendon was offered a new job on the back of a ‘best ever’ presentation You might also like to hear how Brendon was asked to repeat his interview presentation so it could be used as a training video. They said it was the best presentation they had seen and, of...
BREAKTHROUGH THINKING STRATEGIES
