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The thing about AI

Here’s this one that was posted on linkedin: “You’re planning to retire and want to write for a living. How can you get started?” This question makes no sense. Retiring

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Retirement

You get old, to a certain age and you retire, so that you can enjoy of savings —or at least not having to work. Retirement frames work as a chore

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What’s your prompt?

Justin Welsh wrote this post and it just hit home. Some time ago, I asked friend of the list and data scientist, Dr. Genevieve Hayes: – If, let’s say, 10

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Being a follower

“You’re a follower.” Doesn’t sound quite “empowering”, right? So, why would you want to have followers?

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Leading is not empowering

You don’t empower people: employees, customers, trainees, interns… To empower them implies you can dis-empower them. That you can take any power, agency or determination they have from them. And

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Leading is language

Not only whether you say please or not. It’s about how you frame (and reframe) the situations, the context, problems and even solutions. [Framing and reframing —NOT gaslighting.] It’s about

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Accountability

If leadership is not 100% accountable, it’s not leadership. It can be anything else but. It takes you to own the flaws, mistakes, failures and successes. Not only to yourself

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Procrastination is productive.

Friend-of-the-list and fellow daily writer, Shweta send this message about “Not all days can be equally productive, and that’s OK.” Some thoughts about this are that also, doing nothing is

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Stages of risk acceptance

In short: when you have nothing, you try, fail and do whatever it takes to get things moving. That takes you to a place where things in the environment are

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Weekends

As an entrepreneur, business owner, solo consultant… do you work on the weekends?

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Working on the weekends

If you want, you can. But here’s the thing, you need to understand this is your choice. If you can’t say no to work, or you need to be working

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Cringe

What are words / things in your industry that make you cringe? Number 1 for me this month: Storytelling. Let me know yours?

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Focus on Speed + Good Enough

This way you’ll get quickly to the goal. HOWEVER… Getting quick and good enough to the wrong goal is worse than slow towards the right thing. Like the player here

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Slow in the weeds

Collaboration is about getting into the weeds, about messiness. While speed and efficiencies do help, getting faster to the wrong goal or executing flawlessly the wrong thing won’t move the

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The thing about scope creep

The problem is not scope creep, it’s not knowing how to: 1) limit scope. 2) get fine with good enough. 3) identify the right scope and timeline properly. When you

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