Nicholas Bate

Friday Move 7

1. Move from your chair, your desk, your screen.
2. Move in all three dimensions.
3. Move on your own two feet. 
4. Move from air-con/underfloor heating to the outside for a while.
5. Move on rough terrain, through wilderness and where there is no Starbucks for miles and miles.
6. Move faster, longer, harder.
7. Move as you are designed to do for health and peace of mind.

 

Thursday 35

1. 25 Mini Standards.
2. The Writing Primer.
3. Bram, A Spy Story: a story of coming of age, of Queen and country and the origins of Covid-19. “Once you start reading this book, it’s difficult to put down. Initially, you are immersed in the delights of Oxford academia, only to then be exposed to the starkness and brutality of Moscow during the Cold War. Bram, a brilliant Oxford chemist, turns spy whose mission is to save the world from a highly dangerous and ubiquitous threat. This book is characterised by most of the attributes of a good spy story with action, heroic exploits by a larger-than-life protagonist and a strong plot. Well worth a read.”
   
4. How to Start your Very Own Business.
5. Instant Productivity.
6. Seven choices.
7. 22 Essentials.
8. How to Create your Home Office.
9. plus The Start Up Myths
10. Stay STRONG
11. Crazy Bold Experiments
12. Just say NO to PPT
13. The Marketing Primer.
14. Being the Best version of you, the book, back in stock.
15. Redundancy
16. Hunter-Gatherer 21C
17. Tackling Stress.
18. Manage that career
19. Be Bold 101
20. You still haven’t read Being The Best?! 
21. Things They Don’t Teach at Business School
22. the secrets of success
23. Life Tips 101
24. Zen & Art of Cubicle Freedom
25. Carnage At Kodak
26. The Very Best Drugs You Need
27. Billions of Light Years Away In Another Galaxy
28. 22 Routes To Your Non Fiction Book
29. Lists For The Life You Love
30. How To Lessen E-Mail Pain
31. Professionalism 101
32. 21 Ways to Improve your Zoom Conference Call.
33. Productivity Primer
34. 101, redux
35. The Basic Basics

Language

When you spend a bit of time with your dog or your cat and consider the incredible nature of god’s creatures, thoughts often turn to our gift: language.

Don’t waste it: chat, read and write. Don’t just scroll, click and send. 

Managing a Business in a Crazy World, 42

Questions for your next off-site:

Why would anyone want to work for your firm?

Who are your AI experts and what are they suggesting?

Who are your principal two competitors and what are they doing better than you?

The Most Powerful Productivity Tips 103

Regular readers will know I’m a huge fan of the timetable. 

Just as at school/college, time-block your day. 

Fixed chunks of time build momentum on the topic, ensure that all topics are addressed and allow you to assess what percentage of your time you put e.g. towards your writing, your health, your team….

Launch a fresh timetable today.

The 25 Tools of Excellence, v4: 15: The T-bar

Man is a generalist. No harm in that: he is remarkably adept at adapting and to enhance this process has created a batch of tools which allows enhanced performance. 

What are the Tools of Excellence?

15: The T-bar

Tough decisions keep cropping up. Use a T-bar to balance the pros and the cons. A first pass will not always produce a clear way forward but it will certainly clarify in preparation for future work. 

Get the tools to be brilliant in a Brave New World.

TBC

Love, Life & Legacy

Three 45 minute, 10K words short stories.

Amazon kindle.

Very Good News

Michael Wade has a new book……

A Selection of Quotes

That Tom Peters has collected. 

Read 7

1. Read more
2. read wider
3. read deeper
4. read before netflix
5. read while commuting
6. read to relax, escape, learn
7. read more.