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Don’t let fear of ridicule squelch your ideas… even the “dumb” ones
The Maven Game: A Head Full of Ideas, 2023-Mar-4 by David Moldawer Creatively competent people welcome "dumb" ideas. They love them! Contributions that are weird, cringy, tangential, bizarre, klutzy, catachrestic, or otherwise unexpected are the most useful when you're trying to get somewhere new, interesting, and valuable. Great ideas grow best from the fertile soil…
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Blogging to Inspire
The Ahrefs blog recently inspired me with an article about 'reasons to use content marketing.' They made the insightful comment that content marketing cannot directly drive action. In addition to educating and entertaining, they recommended inspiring the reader. I've never thought about, and now I think maybe that's what I always should have been doing!…
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Unexpected Precondition for Innovation, noted by Nilofer Merchant
When we are trying to drive innovation in an organization, we often ignore an essential precondition. This precondition is sometimes called "psychological safety." Nilofer Merchant has a valuable angle on this for managers. You can't get to psychological safety in your team until you recognize the unique value of each individual. It's not enough to…
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Taste and Complexity
W. David Marx is doing an excellent job of explaining diversity of taste. When I take a relatively uneducated friend to an art museum, I'm often stumped to explain my taste. Culture (An Owner's Manual): Three Ways of Enjoying Music (and the Reverse Snobbery of Ultra-Poptimism), 2023-Feb-21 by W. David Marx Educated listeners grow bored…
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Just do it: marketing edition
A reminder from Michael Katz that doing something–almost anything–is better than doing nothing: Blue Penguin Development: Language Lab Lessons, 2023-Feb-23 by Michael Katz Nobody Ever Died From Bad Marketing* Surgeons, firefighters, airline pilots … these are people whose jobs literally involve life and death. Marketing, on the other hand, is about being “vaguely correct.” About…
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Our Favorite Peacenik on the Ukraine War
Nonzero Newsletter: The Ukraine Archives 2023-Feb-23 by Robert Wright: I’m proud of the things this newsletter has published about the Ukraine war—not because I think they’re all great, but because collectively they represent a clear alternative to the perspective offered in mainstream media, where both reporting and commentary have tended to succumb to the conformist…
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Contributing as a Team Leader
The primary value of team leaders to an organization is in information gathering and disbursement. Managing your team members is actually about making sure they know what's important, and that information has to be gathered from outside the team because it's constantly changing. Information about what the team is facing and accomplishing needs to be…
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The Ends and Means of Diversity
Increasing diversity is both moral AND productive in organizations. An organization with diversity of employees is more likely to thrive. Acquiring a more diverse workforce turns out to be expensive in the short run. Suck it up! Digital Tonto: We Need To Learn How To Bridge Difference To Drive Creativity And Innovation, 2023-Feb-19 by Greg…
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Warren Buffet’s recommended strategy: Assault your bad habits
Powerful strategies allow you to navigate an ever-changing world. Warren Buffet's strategic advice is to attack your bad habits—habits that hold you back. Those habits don't always start out being bad. Your environment, goals, and strengths change over time. You need to be in the habit of evaluating your habits. Which ones are holding you…
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‘Streamline that Newsletter’ from Josh Spector
This clipping is to remind me to write a newsletter for my readers and not for my business. It was written by Josh Spector. JoshSpector.com: 10 Ways To Trim The Fat In Your Newsletter, 23-Jan-9 Here’s how to trim the fat in your newsletter: 1. Lose the parts of your intro no one cares about — like…
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