Jun 29, 2018
Failing Forward (John Maxwell)
- The difference between average people and achievers is how they perceive and respond to failure
- Failure isn’t so bad if it doesn’t attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn’t go to the head
- Failure is temporary. What makes the long-term difference is how quickly we bounce...
Jun 22, 2018
12 Rules for Life (Jordan Peterson)
Our Top 3 Rules
- Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world
- Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
- Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
Jun 15, 2018
Back of the Napkin (Dan Roam)
- Visual thinking enables you to focus on making the complex understandable
- Use the right tool for the question. e.g. for who/what a portrait, for when a timeline, etc.
- The SQVID model enables you to tailor a visual message to your audience
Guest: Ted Harro
- Founder of Noonday Ventures
Jun 8, 2018
Four Seconds (Peter Bregman)
- Four seconds is all it takes to stop, assess the situation, and act strategically moving forward
- Taking a few moments to reevaluate expectations can improve dynamics around you
- In conflict resist the temptation to become defensive. Ask a clarifying...
Jun 1, 2018
Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely)
- The most common way we think irrationally is making relative vs. quantitative comparisons
- Free items give us an irrational sense of excitement, since there is no risk of a poor decision
- We tend to make the same irrational decisions repeatedly. Finding the pattern can help us break...