Results & Relationships

Dont wait for mentoring. Dont wait to be picked. Dont wait to recieve that special anything. Instead work hard to position yourself AND thus making it more likely to have someone wanting to mentor you, to make yourself ready IF you get picked.  

Do things that matter today, so you'll learn. Don't waste time comparing – remind yourself it's the learning and doing that's important and comparing often gets in the way more than we ever learn. This is urgent. Do thinks every day that matters, however small. That consistency will what makes you win whenever you need to win way more likely than watching others.

Culture is just behaviour. Effect is just a result of behaviour. Are you focused on your own behaviour and that of those around you? without this it doesnt matter what your powerpoint slides say your people "should" do in a fancy greatlooking strategy document.

What does Resilience mean to you? What does it enable?

Are you doing the work that matters? Or are you just doing hard work because you "hope" if its hard, it should be rewarded?

Just some food for thought on the URGENT need for you to think about restorability so backups don't get in the way of your relationships. * Divorce and family photos? * Employee and boss asks for phone back? * Programmer backup = 100x speed and trust Trust? Are your provider doing analytics on your backups?

Who controls the data for your emotional choices? Know thyself is more urgent than ever! We're all emotional creatures – a great important part of our evolution. It's important to know that you're now surrounded by algorithms watching you and tweaking the environment around you constantly. For both great and scary effects. That's why it's more important than ever to know thyself, to understand what makes you tick so you'll recognize what's going on. Say when you think you're reading news and in effect, you're being manipulated to make a certain decision.   Why fascism is so tempting — and how your data could power it  Yuval Noah Harari | TED2018 https://www.ted.com/talks/yuval_noah_harari_why_fascism_is_so_tempting_and_how_your_data_could_power_it Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy |Carole Cadwalladr | TED2019 https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy

This is Marketing worth the listen or read from so many angles This episode is a tribute to Seth Godin, and a recommendation of his book This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See IF you only read one book this year I recommend you make it this one before others. It applies to so much beyond marketing. Ric share's some of his thoughts on Seth Quotes My product is for people who believe ... I will focus on people who want... I promise that engaging with what I make will help you get...   You're listening to episode 365 of this podcast, and I've shipped it weekly for 5 years to get to this point in time. I surely was a slow learner facing so many resistances getting here. I still struggle with some of them and most likely will find new resistances as I keep leveling up. Without Seth and all I've learned from Seth over the years about [daring] to dance with tension and [daring] to do the work that matter this podcast wouldn't exist. Seth is the number ONE reason I'm doing this for you and everyone else listening to this. Thank you Seth! This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See IF you're curious I recommend you get the audio version because Seth is taking time to read it himself https://amzn.to/2Ijew4I

Brand, Reputation and DOING the work that matters. I know I here talk about how important DOING things is – to get real life feedback, to connect, to learn. Getting our ideas out of our heads to meet the world so we connect with our community, so we show up for those we seek to help. But it's even more important to embrace that it's not enough to just do better work. We must all of us also embrace branding, reputation and all the work that makes OUR work matter, be noticed and feel relevant for those we want to help. With all the noise in our world just being the best, or having shipped the best product is not enough. We must all work on our brand. That the result of that work is NOT up to us. Branding in today's connected world: For both global around the world brands, as well as your personal brand is: Other people's expectation of you. The promise you deliver to them. THAT is your brand. its easy to live in the illusion that they'll get it eventually, if we just do good work. That they will come if we just build "the right <insert your product>" but it's not enough. My experience is that in order for your people to get the maximum value out of your product or "value" They must get the reputation your brand bring with it from others, not directly from you. The noise blocks out who's the best. Seek to be the best for those you serve including do work on marketing, branding, reputation in a way that matter to them. Don't seek to gamify what 'ever platform you're on. Eventually algorithms will learn and you're community as well. You don't want to be left obsolete just because an algorithm was updated. quote: Warren Buffet It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently What's your legacy? What are you building for those you serve beyond you? What is the promise you bring those that connect with what you do?