Practice This

What it makes the job to be a dream one? How can I find out the gap between what I have and the dream job?
I found the answers in the book by Marcus Buckinghamand  Curt Coffman – First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently.

by Duke LeNoir

The book is “Based on in-depth interviews by the Gallup organization of over 80,000 managers in over 400 companies – the largest study of its kind ever undertaken”.
In the book the authors share 12 questions that in my opinion should …

Did you send a flame email lately? Regret? Sure you do. I did it few times and I wish it never happened. But why you were sending this flame email anyway? Tried to influence the other guy? The result – you just make one more enemy instead making friends.
Emotional Intelligence and Influence Without Authority are a broad topics that are out of scope for this post. Nevertheless, here is a simple technique to craft emails that help avoiding Emotional Intelligence pitfalls. It also helps building rapport which is the basis …

Are you a manager? Looking for the ways to make your business better? Looking for the ways to grow? Want to improve both employees and customer satisfaction?
The best advice I’ve got from The Dream Manager book by Matthew Kelly – ask your employees “what’s their dream?”. Have you tried that?

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Ask your employees
What are you asking your employees? “Are you on track?” “Are you going to hit that goal?” ”How do you plan to cover that deficit?”, etc. These are all good questions. But there is more. Just …

I am selling the Most Valuable Product, the Experience. What are you selling (stop denying, we all sell something)? Does your customer get engaged easily? No? Neither mine. Then how do you engage with your customer?
You create a brand that is credible, compelling, and personally connected with the potential customer. 
 
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This simple formula is expressed in William J. McEwen’s book Married to the Brand: Why Consumers Bond with Some Brands for Life. How do you check your brand for credibility, compelling, and connecting? This is what the author suggest:
Credibility

[Brand] …

How do you convince your boss to buy in with new idea? How do you carry out the main message of your presentation? How do you make your blog readers read your blog?
You make your messages sticky.

by Or Hiltch
I was reading J.D. Meier’s Six Principles of Sticky Ideas that he distilled from Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. And it related to me a lot. The principles are:

Principle 1. Simplicity
Principle 2. Unexpectedness
Principle 3. Concreteness
Principle 4. Credibility
Principle 5. Emotions
Principle 6. Stories

It related to me since I …