Nicholas Bate

July Redux 15

1. 11 Reasons for Stories
2. Basics 7: Strategic Planning
3. 22 Things Which Help You When You Are Down
4. Jagged Thoughts for Jagged Times
5. 25 x 5
6. Basics: The Job Hunt 7
7. Totally, Totally Global Inc.
8. Brilliant at the Basics of Business 100, v2 
9. Basics: PM 7
10. 22 Things to Read Each Morning
11. Basics: English Weather
12. Why We Love The Beatles, v2
13. Basics: Re-Boot 7
14. Scenario Planning
15. Basics: Food Shopping 7

Bonus 1: January 2017 Redux.

Bonus 2: February 2017 Redux

Bonus 3: March 2017 Redux

Bonus 4: April 2017 Redux

Bonus 6: May 2017 Redux

Bonus 7: June 2017 Redux

Bonus 8: The Essential Posts of 2016

Bonus 9: The Essential Posts of 2015

Bonus 10: The Smart Bloggers 

Brilliant at the Basics of Business (v2) 100: 3

Make price the smallest issue.

Make it a simple question: and how much is your product? Your service?

Not a big debate nor negotiation. How? Through talking and illustrating and referencing the tremendous measurable value and benefit they will get when they become one of your customers.

The Back-Story

B@BofBiz One

B@BofBiz Two

The Book.

Kurt Harden

daily to invigorate, provoke and inform.

22 Things To Read Each Morning Over Coffee, the list completed

1. Nobody is going to spoil my day.
2. I got a place on Planet Earth, consistently voted the greatest planet in the known universe.
3. I am not my security badge that I 'have to wear' every day.
4. I love walking and hence I walk everywhere. 
5. I choose. 
6. It doesn't matter about the qualifications I do not have. Am I maximising the ones I do have?
7. There are only so many digital interrupts I can take in one day before my brain is in IQ free-fall. Which ones will they be?
8. I no longer need sugar to be happy.
9. My default mood will be resourceful, 'can-do' and optimistic. If it is not, I know I need nature and/or sleep and/or careful nutrition and/or dance and/or music.
10. I am reducing the number of screens and the amount of screen time in my life.
11. I am there for sun-rise and/or sun-set several times a week.
12. In a world of uncertainty, I manage myself. I have clear goals and plans. Of course they will change but they give direction.
13. There is no failure, only feedback.
14. I start, therefore I will be.
15. I finish, therefore I am.
16. I answer all mails promptly because I have fewer mails by (1) having real conversations (2) not CCing 'the world'. Tips.
17. My heart and gut are often more accurate than the spreadsheet I am trying to engineer.
18. I realise that art is not just in galleries.
19. I relish a new book list.
20. I have stumbled across the fact that writing is not simply about assembling words. It is about a moment captured, articulated and stretched.
21. I know that of all the super-powers, courtesy consistently surprises and cannot be beaten.
22. I play frisbee and yet do not need to worry about geometry, physics nor a tactical plan. Some unconscious processing handles it all; how cool is that? And where else might I develop that state of being?

Bonus 1: Hunter-Gatherer 21 Century, Two Score & Ten; Bonus 2: 22 Things to do on Planet Earth; Bonus 3: 22 Ways to Feel Better, More of the Time.

Bonus 4: 22 Things They Still Don't Teach You at Business School; Bonus 5: 22 Stupid Things Large Organisations Do; Bonus 6: Slow 22

Bonus 7: 22 Reasons Your 2017 is Going To Be Awesome; Bonus 8: The Fundamental Problems with Powerpoint. Still. 22

Bonus 9: 22 Ways to be an Awesome Conference Speaker; Bonus 10: Love Presenting Hate (Badly Used) PowerPoint

Bonus 11: The 22 Fundamental Errors Large Organisations Still Make; Bonus 12: Brilliant at the Basics of Business; Bonus 13: Routes to Less Stress 22

Bonus 14: That Other F Word; Bonus 15: What's Wrong with The Typical Corporate Selling Machine, 11; 

Bonus 16: 22 Reasons 79% of any Workforce is Woefully Unproductive; Bonus 17: 22 Ways To Create a Small, Simple, Start-Up.

Bonus 18: 22 Ways to Get Better at Anything; Bonus 19: 22 Routes to Becoming Unstoppable.; Bonus 20: Re-boot 22

Bonus 21: 22 Ways to Better Results at the Gym; Bonus 22: 11 Ways to Fix that Presentation; Bonus 23: 22 Things to do on Vacation

Bonus 24: 11 Things to do in September; Bonus 25: 22 Things to do at Work; Bonus 26: 22 Ways to Reduce Stress; Bonus 27: 22 Things to Learn

Bonus 28: 22 Pretty Straightforward Productivity Boosters; Bonus 29: The 22 Steps to Getting What You Want in 2017

Bonus 30: The 22 Reasons Earth wins 'best planet ever, anywhere' award 2016; Bonus 31: The Less of Eleven

Bonus 32: 11 Ways Any Company Can Really Impress The (Potential) Customer; Bonus 33: 22 Ways To Build Your personal Brand

Bonus 34: 11 Things To Write in your New Moleskine Notebook; Bonus 35: 11 Ways to Better Quality Sleep; Bonus 36: 11 Ways to get a Fresh Idea

Bonus 37: 22 High Value (but just 10 minute) activities; Bonus 38: 11 Helpful Contrasts; Bonus 39: 22 Essentials for Thriving in the 21C Urban Jungle.

Bonus 40: 22 Healing Activities in A World of the Electron

Bonus 41: 22 Words; Bonus 42: 11 Reasons for Stories; Bonus 43: 22 Things Which Help You When You Are Down

The Excellent Random Thoughts

from Michael Wade. In a previous post Michael mentioned he planned a book; stay tuned.

Just How Deep

can you learn?

Why We Love The Beatles (v2) 12 of 100

I Saw Her Standing There. Straight-to-the-listener lyrics: 'went boom'; 'crossed that room'. No allusions or 'soft' stuff. As always with much of their early material, this could be played for 10-15 minutes in live performance in the early days when they had to have sufficient material for hours on end, but was parred down to a powerful rocker for the radio. And just perfect for an early Saturday as you do the laundry.
Although a very early Lennon-McCartney production, notice the = rapid evolution of material, powerful succinct story-telling and totally engaging sound. The Beatles are well on the way. Lift-off has been achieved.

It's another reason we love The Beatles.

The Back-Story

Reason 1: Story-tellers

Reason 2: Sgt. Pepper

Reason 3: Eternally optimistic

Reason 4: Still cool

Reason 5: George Harrison.

Reason 6: Love Me Do

Reason 7: Work Ethic

Reason 8: Synchronicity

Reason 9: The Roof-top Concert

Reason 10: Candlestick Park

Reason 11: Lennon & McCartney

The Book.

25 times 5: 5

1. A quotation: William Shakespeare: The course of true love never did run smooth.
2. A redux: The Rules of lIfe
3. A link to:  Predicting the weather by observation
4. A paradox: Accept hardship, get tougher.
5. A challenge: Write the first paragraph of your novel.

Brilliant at the Basics of Business (v2) 100: 2

Human beings are wired to pay attention to first impressions; it’s a cool evolutionary-based defence mechanism. So how good is your web-site? Your reception area? Your telephone answering? Your customer’s car-parking? The digital and social media web you weave? 

Is there a gap between the story your people say and the service your clients receive?

The Back-Story

B@BofBiz One

The Book.

Basics: Re-Boot 7

1. Sometime you just know. You just know. Something needs to change.
2. A job. A relationship. A lifestyle. The way you manage your finances. Whatever: it needs to change....
3. You need a Re-Boot.
4. You need 1h, pencil and paper. An undisturbed place.
5. Write down 6 headings: career/health/finances/relationships/fun/contribution
6. Against each heading, two columns: 'now', 'soon'. In 'now' the current situation. In 'soon' what you seek.
7. Start closing the gap. 

Running 7; Meetings 7; Strategic Marketing 7; Leadership 7

Wellness 7; Coffee 7; Creativity 7; Confidence 7; Presenting 7;

Fast, Wholesome Cookery 7; Fitness 7; Productivity 7

Sales 7; Negotiation 7; E-Mail 7; Making a Decision 7

Writing 7; Career 7; Simple Meditation 7

Mindset 7; International Travel 7; Fitness on the Road 7

Parenting 7; Reading 7 ; Food Shopping 7

Brainstorming 7; Fitness at the Office 7

Strategic Planning 7; The Job Hunt 7; English Weather 7

Project Management 7

Extra Bonus: Get a Life, The Protocol