How do you stay sharp? Last week, my kids ended the school year and brought home packets of math problems and reading prompts to “prevent the summer slide” and stay sharp, lest they devolve into puddles of popsicles and Bluey episodes. As adults, though, we have the opposite problem. Kids default to
What are the words that you remember people by? I’m talking about the catchphrases that live on in your head. Certain reminders from the people who loom large in our lives. We remember people by the core ideas they valued and shared. Especially the ideas that bubble up over and
AI has entered the chat. ChatGPT is helping us plan vacations, respond to tricky emails, and summarize long meetings. But there’s one little word that’s keeping AI from writing your thought leadership for you: PERSPECTIVE. What is perspective? Perspective” can be defined as a point of view, angle, or slant.
When you’re talking about your work, how do you finish the sentence “The way I see it….” ? How do you see your work? What has your unique experience taught you? From your specific vantage point, what do you see? What’s your perspective? I’m going to get real with you:
If you’re an expert in your field, you know a lot. You have deep knowledge about your industry. But just having that knowledge doesn’t make you a thought leader. Thought leaders are experts who share their knowledge by breaking it down, presenting it in interesting ways, and neatly packaging distinct
Do you know what sets thought leaders apart? It’s not that they’re smarter than other people. They’re not more intuitive. They’re not even necessarily better at their jobs. But they have trained themselves to do one specific thing: They chase the sparks. What is a spark? Sparks are the little
If you are fascinated by your work — all the juicy details and new things to learn and exciting developments — then why do other people’s eyes glaze over when you go into Work Talk mode? How can you help people who don’t work with you, or who don’t know
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“I feel stuck. I’m not sure what to say, so I won’t say anything.” Do you know that feeling? So many of the people I work want to develop big, exciting ideas. But the process to get to those ideas can be long and frustrating. Sometimes, even the most prolific
“That’s a good question.” How often do you hear that? When I hear, “That’s a good question,” it signals that the other person is pausing to think. Whatever I’m asking them is unexpected and is pushing them to reflect in a new way. In other words, I hit the jackpot.
This week, my eight-year-old went to surf camp (one of the very fun rites of passage of living in a beach town). On the first day of camp, I watched a team of coaches herd the huge crew of neon-rashguard-clad kids onto the beach, through a round of stretches and
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