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Five Corporate Buzzwords We Need to Banish

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Ideate – Speaking of ideas, let’s resist the urge to turn nouns into verbs. Instead, we’re encouraged to “socialize” ideas with colleagues to get their “buy-in.” How about we just share our ideas and ask for their ideas in return? That’s a classic source of buzzwords, by the way.)

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How to Avoid Delivering the Dreaded Feedback Sandwich

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Skip the preamble – When you start the conversation, resist the urge to start with a preamble about everything but the substance of the feedback. Trying to wing your way through a tough feedback conversation never ends well. Skip the preamble and cut to the chase.

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Mindful Mondays: What Would Happen If You Let Go?

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Mindful Mondays acceptance change resistance' The high achievers have spent most of their lives learning and mastering new skills. Picking up isn''t a problem for them. The much bigger challenge is letting go.

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How to Stop Selling Your Ideas and Start Enrolling People in Them

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People get kind of resistant to being sold a strategy. He offers a lot of wisdom on the difference between selling and enrolling in this quote from the book: “One thing I constantly coach people on is enrolling others. Your job as an executive is not to sell ideas; it’s to enroll people in ideas.

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Bio-hacking Your Health and Wellbeing with Your Phone

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I resisted doing so because I was scared to see how bad my sleep numbers would be. Oura – The Oura ring has electronic sensors in it that measure your movement, your heart rate variability and how much light, REM and deep sleep you’re getting every night. Diane had an Oura ring first and loved it and encouraged me to get one.

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Make Time For Now

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” exchange that would have seemed to be the path of least resistance when we greeted each other. I was so glad that I put my phone down a few minutes earlier and really talked with her instead of the cursory, transient, “Pretty good, how are you?” It was a simple act that led to a little bit of transformation.

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Remembering What’s at Stake

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Schama goes on to define what the battle against Isis and other perpetrators of violent extremism is about – the principles “enshrined in the words of those who first articulated the imperatives of free speech: religious toleration; the right to civil peace; resistance to tyranny and theocracy.”.

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