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I create a newsletter called GrowthCandy. Each issue shares one idea to help build and spread your work, delivered as a short comic. Fast to read. Easy to apply. Hard to forget!
When hiring or being hired, it’s worth remembering:
When lots of people play a game, but only a very small number of people win, that’s called a lottery.
If you go beyond what people consider to be normal, you get to stand out in a positive light among those you serve.
We’re drawn to the ease, the lack of tension, the yielding nature of those who have enough.
Business is the continual act of letting go
If cutting costs on customer support saves a little bit of money…
Some want new technology to make their work easier.
If a service strains your team, design things differently so it’s a joy to send and receive.
Doing my financial reports is a service. Adding a summary and personal note makes it a gift.
The job of a craftsman is to create great work.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is so out-of-fashion these days.
When everyone has features…
If AI can create, why don’t we relate to it?
They say a bad team will ruin your business.
They say you should sell the hole, not the drill…
You may need attention, but you don’t need gross attention.
You’re only too late if you think you’re too late.
We need intrinsic motivation to come back.
I think we often forget that “the prospect” doesn’t have their ducks in a row as much as they’d like us to think they do.
Defining success as ‘getting to the finishing line’ is dangerous.
We don’t buy stuff because it’s logical, unless it’s unemotional.
Brains are very clever.
You’re only surrounded by competitors if you’re doing the same thing as everyone else, in the same way as everyone else, for the same people as everyone else, while sounding like everyone else.
You’d think printing out your to-do list daily would be wasteful compared to just using your phone.
The ‘unread message’ count on your inbox only displays the number of things sent.
Not the number of conversations or relationships you’re letting wither.
A bigger screen means you can do more at once.
But does that help you do better work?
The world runs on social media, yet social media makes everyone anxious.
I create a newsletter called GrowthCandy. Each issue shares one idea to help build and spread your work, delivered as a short comic. Fast to read. Easy to apply. Hard to forget!