Nicholas Bate

How to Think Like William Shakespeare

1. To be or not to be.
2. Where for art thou, Romeo.
3. Out damned spot.
4. Et tu, Brute.
5. Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears.
6. Eye of newt and toe of frog.
7. The most unkindest cut of all.

How to Think Like a 2-Week Old

1. Is this it?

Don't distract

Be careful not to distract the listener from your main message. Particularly in this busy, busy world the attention constantly shifts to anything new/fresh. Ensure that is just you.

At your presentation ensure there are no 'left-overs' from previous presenters e.g. hand-outs which will distract.

At your interview ensure your dress is perfect so as not to have them concerned as to why you chose that tie or who on Earth gave you a hair-do like that.

At your quarterly review, keep your notes out of view so your team-member doesn't start reading them up-side down.

At the team meeting, give out the doughnuts in the final 10 minutes when the main work has been done and the meeting is ending on a high.

Yep, don't distract.

You were there: invention of the light bulb, 125 years ago..

" Wow-don't you look old!"

Need more ideas?

A very useful article is here.

Get set for 2008, ahead of the crowd.

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How to think Like a London Taxi Driver

1. Yeah, evenings drawing in, now Guv.
2. It's this government, see.
3. No, not as many visitors from the USA as we used to get. The exchange rate, you see.
4. Well, I ask myself what's this government doing to build trust again?
5. I spend half my time in Spain; just rent a cab when I need one. Great lifestyle.
6. That's the problem with Sat Nav, of course.
7. Thanks Guv: you're a gent.

How to think Like a New York Cabbie

1. I need some money for the toll.

What are you reading 2?

Jeffrey Gitomer has created a great little series of books. His latest is Cha-Ching! so you can guess that it's about selling and success. It's worth reading as it covers the usual points in some fresh ways and he has an easy and engaging style.

A few things from his book:
most urgent things are preventable
..for a long time it had seemed to me that I was about to begin real Life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time to be spent, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were in fact Life...

The benefits of marriage..

.. are wider than you may have originally thought..here.