How Slow Thinking Leads to Fast Results
My sales experience taught me that slowing down and thinking is the path to fast results.
Maddox Locher Nov 14, 2024
Business
ITEC: Objective Standards for Nonfiction Writing
If you want to write powerfully, embrace objective standards. Over my thirty years of writing and editing, I’ve developed a set I call ITEC.
Three Principles for Finding Meaningful, Fulfilling Work
Is your work meaningful and interesting to you? If not, do you have a plan for how to transition to work that is?
Why Independently Choosing Your Career Matters
You might want to ponder whether or not you should follow your parents’ career advice in the first place.
A Simple Process to Prevent Work Overload
"Most people feel best about their work the week before they go on vacation, but it’s not because of the vacation itself." — David Allen
Improve Relationships, Teams, and Communication with Radical Candor
“Care personally, challenge directly.” These are the basic ideas that management coach Kim Scott suggests for being what she calls “radically candid,” a method of being honest and compassionate, especially when it comes to giving feedback. Her book Radical Candor is aimed at corporate managers, but most of its advice is applicable to any relationship.
Pushing Forward with “Extreme Ownership”
Are you experiencing leadership challenges at work–with employees, supervisors, or peers–and seeking examples of what excellence looks like? Or maybe you’re looking for motivation or inspiration to get you through difficult moments in your life, or simply to keep pushing forward. If so, then perhaps “Jocko Podcast” is for you.
13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategies Nine and Ten
There are many rules and principles that use numbers and ratios. By “the 70/30” principle, I mean that you don’t need to have 100 percent mastery in every aspect of a project to do it well. If a client says, “Can you do X?,” you can readily say yes if you know how to do at least 70 percent of what they’re asking for.
13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategies Seven and Eight
Many career coaches and professionals have a lot of different things to say about how you should build and deliver your elevator pitch, which is basically a brief sales pitch that you can deliver during an elevator ride with a potential client.