Archive of posts from June 2018

Daily Post #0201 • June 30 2018 • Experience

Take it away, what now

Many teams thrive on just one strategy that works.

Daily Post #0200 • June 29 2018 • Experience

Online advertisers, stop being creepy

We don’t like being tracked online. Yet we enjoy having more followers.

Daily Post #0199 • June 28 2018 • Resilience

Dividing lines

Xenophobia is a fear of people from other countries.

Daily Post #0198 • June 27 2018 • Momentum

In defense of ‘evolutionary’

‘Evolutionary’ is often seen as the lesser twin of ‘Revolutionary’.

Daily Post #0197 • June 26 2018 • Craft

Can science be an art?

Or art a science?

Daily Post #0196 • June 25 2018 • Momentum

Urgency is in the eye of the beholder

We behave differently when something is urgent, compared to when it’s merely “coming soon”, don’t we:

Daily Post #0195 • June 24 2018 • Craft

People like to help

Do you struggle asking people for help?

Daily Post #0194 • June 23 2018 • Experience

It was designed that way

Why is getting an oil change is so arduous?

Daily Post #0193 • June 22 2018 • Momentum

Living for 1,000 years

How would we behave differently if we were to live for >1000 years instead of <100?

Daily Post #0192 • June 21 2018 • Craft

Building upon the wrong question

Which of these is a better question: “What should this email sequence say?” or “Do people want these emails?”

Daily Post #0191 • June 20 2018 • Momentum

The gift of asking for more

How do you feel about asking for more?

Daily Post #0190 • June 19 2018 • Craft

The skill you have, but shouldn’t

We all have one. We think it’s an asset, but it isn’t.

Daily Post #0189 • June 18 2018 • Craft

Peel back the feedback

Here are three pieces of feedback I saw come through our teams today:

Daily Post #0188 • June 17 2018 • Experience

Trusting the platform

Your work shares a challenge that Apple and Google both have: control requires trust.

Daily Post #0187 • June 16 2018 • Experience

Good communication, who’s responsibility?

Can we agree that good communication is proactive, not reactive?

Daily Post #0186 • June 15 2018 • Experience

Who faked?

We love the guy who stinks on stage.

Daily Post #0185 • June 14 2018 • Experience

Best practices aren’t best

They’re often just repackaged ‘standard practices’, and they’re seldom ‘best’.

Daily Post #0184 • June 13 2018 • Craft

A bit like U2

I’m fascinated by things that stubbornly stand the test of time.

Daily Post #0183 • June 12 2018 • Craft

The problem with scaling up…

…is that it’s the wrong goal.

Daily Post #0182 • June 11 2018 • Craft

The offer you’re afraid to make

You probably know what it is.

Daily Post #0181 • June 10 2018 • Momentum

99% is the honest 100%

Sometimes, we’re going to screw it up.

Daily Post #0180 • June 09 2018 • Momentum

Ready for page 1

Let’s imagine you were #1 on Google.

Daily Post #0179 • June 08 2018 • Momentum

The Lemonade Button

Is engaging your team’s work as easy as pushing a button?

Daily Post #0178 • June 07 2018 • Narrative

Crisis-Mode Switch

What do you do when crisis hits your company?

Daily Post #0177 • June 06 2018 • Experience

Controlling the un-controllable

“Hoping for your opponent to make mistakes is not a strategy” – Kasparov, Chessmaster

Daily Post #0176 • June 05 2018 • Craft

Preventative selling

But isn’t selling about engaging, not preventing?

Daily Post #0175 • June 04 2018 • Momentum

The power in being consistently bad

Let’s play a game.

Daily Post #0174 • June 03 2018 • Craft

The seams of scale

When lots of people contribute to something, there are seams where each person’s work is stitched onto someone else’s.

Daily Post #0173 • June 02 2018 • Craft

Don’t reply to that email

Ever received a forwarded email that just says, “Thoughts?”

Daily Post #0172 • June 01 2018 • Resilience

In defense of stinking

I stink at a lot of stuff. On purpose:

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