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TED Education: What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion
I wrote “Give a TED talk” on my bucket list 4 years ago, today I feel happy to see the idea come to fruition. It is not a TED Talk per-se, i.e. it is not up there on a stage, but in my mind almost...
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Eliminate the Unnecessary
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” Pablo Picasso Teaching in IESE Madrid I finished a wonderful 3 day seminar this week in Madrid with 30 directors ranging from industries as diverse as...
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The Dummies Guide to Behavior Change: Obscenely Small Steps
The 3 Keys to Change The 3 keys to making a behavior* change in our lives are: Feel The Over-Arching Why Create Motivation Triggers Reduce Activation Energy The Overarching Why If you woke up tomorrow...
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22 Excuses that I use to not Do Important Work
Here are a few of the excuses I tell myself in order to procrastinate: They won’t let me I am too young I am too old I am only one person I don’t know enough I am not a guru This could be embarrassing...
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Failure is Carelessness, Success is Consistency
Failure is Carelessness, Success is Consistency This Sunday I was at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin to watch the key Six Nations Rugby game between Ireland and England. England won. The Irish guy sitting...
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Meaningful Contribution
You are probably pretty good at your job. You do it at least well enough to keep it. I bet you are actually pretty good at it when you decide to focus on it, when you give it 100%. But… Do you enjoy...
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The 4 Paths of our Working Life
My last post was on Meaningful Contribution. I talked about three questions about the work you are doing: does it serve others? do you do it well? and do you love doing it? The 4 Paths in our Working...
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How to write a book in spite of yourself
“It’s extremely difficult to do something big. I think setting out to do something small is easier and more likely to work.” Seth Godin If you are reading this, I will assume that you writing a book...
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10 Things we Hate about Bosses
Great Place to Work Organisation 10 things that employees surveyed last year by the Great Place to Work organisation said contributed to poor management: Lack of Recognition and Appreciation –...
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Resilience: Coping with Setbacks
Time after time I see promising young athletes reach the professional teams, and they don’t make it. Time and time again I see someone do well in the good times, but then allow one small setback to...
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7 Typical Challenges of Weak Communicators
7 Challenges of Weak Communciators These are 7 challenges that can be overcome if you take the time to improve your communication skills. Some have very quick fixes, others require considerable...
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IESE Webinar [Video]: Develop Your Communication Skills
The Webinar: This is the recording of the IESE Develop Your Communication Skills webinar we ran on 13th April 2013. It is here on the IESE Business School YouTube channel. Storify Summary of the...
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10 Rules to Look Like you are Working Hard
Sometimes I want a lazy day. Sometimes I don’t feel like producing good work. I often blog about productivity, about removing purposeless-busy-ness from our lives; but sometimes I don’t car and I want...
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Career Advice From LinkedIn’s Billionaire Founder Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman, Entrepreneur Reid Hoffman says it took him 15 years after graduating from Stanford to figure out what he wanted to do with his career. Hoffman eventually founded LinkedIn, a $19 billion...
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After Action Review: 100,000 Blog Readers in 24 Hours
I’ve been blogging fairly consistently now for about 4 years. I try not to focus on metrics, just spend time writing posts. I try to write for myself, not to write for fame or fortune or impact…...
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4 Great Posts on Communication and Leadership
How to Give a Killer Presentation Chris Anderson, Owner of TED Presentations rise or fall on the quality of the idea, the narrative, and the passion of the speaker. It’s about substance, not speaking...
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What will future jobs look like?
Economist Andrew McAfee suggests that, yes, probably, droids will take our jobs — or at least the kinds of jobs we know now. In this far-seeing talk, he thinks through what future jobs might look like,...
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TEDx University of Navarra: The Discipline of Finishing
I had an opportunity to give a talk at TEDx University of Navarra in April this year. The talk has just made its way up to YouTube. If you had 1000€ and you could invest that money in someone’s...
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Can we teach Entrepreneurs?
I am in Kona, on the west coast of the big island of the Hawaiian islands. I am in Hawaii for a workshop later this week. 10 entrepreneurs who are part of the global leadership of Entrepreneurs’...
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Accepting Feedback
At the end of every course I teach at IESE Business School, all participants give extensive feedback on their experience of the course, the facilities… and on my role as a teacher. When the summarized...
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