Entries Tagged 'Influence Without Authority' ↓
February 18th, 2009 — Consulting, Influence Without Authority
| Remember, when you were a kid, you’d usually ask things from your daddy. If your daddy would say NO, you’d go to your mommy. Once the mommy says YES, the daddy’s NO does not count any more. Remember that? |
by Jin T |
I do not remember it, but my kids constantly remind me of it. It is well known winning stratagem – “Kill with a borrowed knife“:
Attack using the strength of another (in a situation where using one’s own strength is not favourable) – Wikipedia
I use the stratagem very effectively in consulting.
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February 6th, 2009 — Consulting, Entrepreneurship, Influence Without Authority
| Consultant is a lonely warrior in the filed. He is expected to put results on the table. He is expected to solve problems. Fast. He is expected to always win. To do so, he needs a winning tactics to achieve his goals. In thirty six stratagems there are 6 groups one of which is The Stratagems of Winning: |
by snappybex |
- Deceive the heavens to cross the ocean
- Besiege Wèi to rescue Zhào
- Kill with a borrowed knife
- Substitute leisure for labour
- Loot a burning house
- Make a sound in the east, then strike in the west
All these can be successfully applied in consultancy too.
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January 30th, 2009 — Blogging, Featured, Influence Without Authority
| What’s the most painful challenge for a blogger? Keeping a solid pipeline of topics? Getting traffic? Finding good partners? Comments? Link love? Maybe. Have you thought about writing style? What’s the best writing style for a blogger to catch the fire? |
by Ctd 2005 |
My take is – Flash Blogging.
In Flash Your Fiction: Writing Exercises, Melissa at Writing Forward shares an interesting writing technique – Flash Fiction. She writes:
…go through the story one last time removing as much as you can without making the piece unintelligible. A traditional example is:
Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy wins girl back.
Of course, this is an oversimplified example, but it certainly gives you an idea of just how much a story can be broken down into its basic movements
That is exactly what I need – adapt Flash Writing to Flash Blogging.
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