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Selling solutions, Assessing performance, and Giving and taking feedback
Selling solutions, Assessing performance, and Giving and taking feedback
[Week 14, 2023] Why it’s imporant to remember that customers buy results, and other insights.
Andreas Holmer
Jun 18, 2023
Project Aristotle: Conversational Turn-Taking, Social Sensitivity, and Psychological Safety
Project Aristotle: Conversational Turn-Taking, Social Sensitivity, and Psychological Safety
[Week 51, 2022] How Google discovered that psychological safety was key to team effectiveness.
Andreas Holmer
Mar 6, 2023
Energy Audits: Red/Green, 80 Percent, and Weekly Habit
Energy Audits: Red/Green, 80 Percent, and Weekly Habit
[Week 49, 2022] Three easy steps to improve happiness and engagement at work.
Andreas Holmer
Feb 18, 2023
Continuous Improvement for Teams: Premortems, Retrospectives, and Feedforwards
Continuous Improvement for Teams: Premortems, Retrospectives, and Feedforwards
[Week 32, 2022] Three popular practices to help teams continuously improve the way they work.
Andreas Holmer
Feb 5, 2023
Relational Alchemy: Using Love to turn Gold into Platinum
Relational Alchemy: Using Love to turn Gold into Platinum
[Week 45, 2022] How and why you should treat others the way they would like to be treated.
Andreas Holmer
Jan 22, 2023
Reading Notes VIII — Sandberg, Hastings, and Grant on Feedback
Reading Notes VIII — Sandberg, Hastings, and Grant on Feedback
[Week 24, 2022] Three ideas that will help you give and receive good feedback.
Andreas Holmer
Sep 5, 2022
Reading Notes VII — Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs On How To Balance Your Time
Reading Notes VII — Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs On How To Balance Your Time
[Week 17, 2022] Three ideas from three founders on how to not get sidetracked and overwhelmed
Andreas Holmer
Jul 17, 2022
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Climbing Mount Stupid, Navigating the Valley of Despair, and Ascending…
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Climbing Mount Stupid, Navigating the Valley of Despair, and Ascending…
[Week 12, 2022] How and why self-awareness can protect us from bouts of overconfidence.
Andreas Holmer
Jun 13, 2022
Management Span: Conventional Wisdom, Divergent Practice, and Structure-Market Fit
Management Span: Conventional Wisdom, Divergent Practice, and Structure-Market Fit
[Week 49, 2021] How many direct reports should a manager have? It depends.
Andreas Holmer
Feb 22, 2022
Reading Notes IV: Deming on Performance, Newport on Busyness, and Hubbard on Fuzziness
Reading Notes IV: Deming on Performance, Newport on Busyness, and Hubbard on Fuzziness
[Week 46, 2021] How do we use data to measure performance? This week: insights from Edward Deming, Cal Newport, and Douglas Hubbard.
Andreas Holmer
Jan 30, 2022
Theories X, Y, and Z: Control, Contribute, or Cooperate
Theories X, Y, and Z: Control, Contribute, or Cooperate
[Week 36, 2021] What motivates people at work? Your answer will dictate your management style.
Andreas Holmer
Nov 22, 2021
Task Relevant Maturity (TRM): Instruct, Support, and Delegate
Task Relevant Maturity (TRM): Instruct, Support, and Delegate
[Week 21, 2021] TRM helps managers provide the right type of support to the right person at the right time.
Andreas Holmer
Aug 8, 2021
Personal Productivity, vol. 3: Locus of Control, Circle of Influence, Zone of Adaptation
Personal Productivity, vol. 3: Locus of Control, Circle of Influence, Zone of Adaptation
[Week 53, 2020] Is life something you can control? The answer to that questions says a lot about how effective you are.
Andreas Holmer
Mar 22, 2021
Changing Minds: Consciousness, Intelligence, and Lifelong Learning
Changing Minds: Consciousness, Intelligence, and Lifelong Learning
[Week 32, 2020] How and why do we change our minds? This week, those answers and more.
Andreas Holmer
Oct 26, 2020
People Archetypes, vol 3 — Scheduling, Altruism, and Contribution
People Archetypes, vol 3 — Scheduling, Altruism, and Contribution
[Week 31, 2020] Archetypes are models of people and personalities that influence human behavior. And this week, we explore three of them.
Andreas Holmer
Oct 20, 2020
Atomic Habits: Delayed Return, Habit Formation, and the Compound Effect
Atomic Habits: Delayed Return, Habit Formation, and the Compound Effect
[Week 22, 2020] How do you build good habits and break bad ones? In Atomic Habits, James Clear explains how.
Andreas Holmer
Aug 17, 2020
Why We Sleep: Epidemic Proportions, Hidden Superpowers, and Public Education
Why We Sleep: Epidemic Proportions, Hidden Superpowers, and Public Education
[Week 21, 2020] Why do we sleep? And how does sleep affect work? This week: those answers and more.
Andreas Holmer
Aug 13, 2020
Talking to Strangers: Expectations, Inferences, and Contexts
Talking to Strangers: Expectations, Inferences, and Contexts
[Week 19, 2020] Malcolm Gladwell has a new book all about talking to strangers in and outside of the workplace.
Andreas Holmer
Jul 30, 2020
Better Feedback: Yardsticks, Experiences, and Takeaways
Better Feedback: Yardsticks, Experiences, and Takeaways
[Week 7, 2020] Delivering feedback is hard. This week: three steps to make it a little bit easier.
Andreas Holmer
Apr 10, 2020
Hiring by the Numbers: Expectation, Preparation, and Measurement
Hiring by the Numbers: Expectation, Preparation, and Measurement
[Week 5, 2020] Hiring is hard. This week: three good hiring practices that will increase your hiring success.
Andreas Holmer
Apr 10, 2020
Imparting Knowledge: Instruct, Mentor, and Coach
Imparting Knowledge: Instruct, Mentor, and Coach
[Week 49, 2019] How might we teach explicit, implicit, and tacit knowledge? This week: three methods to do just that.
Andreas Holmer
Apr 10, 2020
Will/Skill Matrix: Support, Direction, and Awareness
Will/Skill Matrix: Support, Direction, and Awareness
[Week 48, 2019] There’s no one-size-fits-all management style. This week: a framework that helps you match style with situation.
Andreas Holmer
Apr 10, 2020
The PAR System: Structure, Process, System
The PAR System: Structure, Process, System
[Week 43, 2019] How do you build a results-oriented workplace? This simple mnemonic can help you get started.
Andreas Holmer
Apr 10, 2020
The Focus Question: Proliferation, Ghosts, and Abstraction
The Focus Question: Proliferation, Ghosts, and Abstraction
[Week 42, 2019] This week we look at three negative coaching patterns and how to avoid them.
Andreas Holmer
Apr 10, 2020
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