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Thought Tweet #631

by Rick Baker
On Dec 17, 2012

Thought Tweet #631 Business Leaders must help people handle the Information Free-For-All and the Attention Free-For-None situation.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet 

Information Free-For-All

The Pros include:

  • the creation of Wikipedia, by volunteers contributing over more than 100,000,000 hours of information entry,
  • real-time access to worldwide information,
  • fantastic education and entertainment in a small smart phone...or an even smaller device if you wish
  • the ability to connect 7/24/anywhere
  • ever-increasing and improving measurement capabilities

The Con is Attention Free-For-None.

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Change: Creating Positive Change | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #630

by Rick Baker
On Dec 14, 2012

Thought Tweet #630 With the pressing of all those buttons, the 30-Second Elevator Speech is going down.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

As you no doubt have noticed, there's been quite a bit of growth in the area of social media. This is impacting on good-old-fashioned sales work. The sales gurus are now recommending a 17 or 18 second Elevator Speech [AKA - 30-Second Commercial...or, should I say 17- or 18-Second Commercial?].

I favour shrinking the Elevator Speech to zero and, if and when the time is right to sense & catch attention, using words less canned and more natural.

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Humour | Sales | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #629

by Rick Baker
On Dec 13, 2012

Thought Tweet #629 When business leaders express their difficulties, we should listen well before we attempt to suggest solutions.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Often, when business leaders express difficulties we either:

  • wave them off and change the topic,
  • reply with a difficulty of their own, or
  • reply with a quick and concrete piece of solution-advice.

These 3 reactions provide little if any value to the business leader [or to us].

If we want to help business leaders then we need to change the way we react/reply when we hear them express their difficulties. We need to listen better. We need to do our best to get into their shoes. We need to think, coming at the difficulty from different directions/perspectives. We need to do these things to (1) improve the quality of our response and (2) build trust with the leader.

When these things are done, then we can help with solutions.

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Communication: Improving Communication | Solutions & Opportunities | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #628

by Rick Baker
On Dec 12, 2012

Thought Tweet #628 Problems wave eagerly at me...huge flags of action & opportunity.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Some leaders take every day and situation as it comes...with a strong belief they can handle things as those things arise.

Some leaders are risk identifiers & risk managers. Problems jump out at them, waving huge flags. Sometimes the flags are red; sometimes the flags are green; always, the flags demand attention and thought.

To some degree, the differences in leaders are innate, 'natural-born' differences. To some degree, the differences are planned, developed skills & strengths.

Link to some thoughts on optimism vs pessimism.

 

 

Thought Tweet #627

by Rick Baker
On Dec 11, 2012
Thought Tweet #627 The Boss is trying to figure out the best ways to kill ideas. About Ernest Seller and The Boss.
 
The Thinking Behind the Tweet
 
So far, The Boss has come up with 3 ways to kill ideas:
  1. The angry ‘NO’…that always works, however, he doesn’t want to overuse it; 
  2. Death by Delay…he can send the work to a committee where the Chair is from some other department in the company…it doesn't matter who is Chair of the committee is as long as the Chair isn’t one of his people, and 
  3. Belittling the person who has the idea: that works real well with Don Trodden, but isn’t so effective with Ernest Seller.

Do you have MORE IDEAS about how to KILL IDEAS?

If you have any the please email us so we can relay them to The Boss.

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Attitude: Creating Positive Attitude | Ernest Seller | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #626

by Rick Baker
On Dec 10, 2012

Thought Tweet #626 Power of Will & Spontaneous Creativity...aren't they the wonderful, bi-polar highlights of our human condition!

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Power of Will - a much-praised attribute and process of character (willpower).

Creativity & Spontaneity - humour, music, art, & invention - these add magic to our lives.

"Do you appreciate both?"

"Do you balance both?"

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Beyond Business | Thought Tweets

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