Nicholas Bate

The Greatest Productivity Tips, 120

Tidy the desk.

We all have different levels of ‘tidy’.

But we all need to be able to see the wood from the trees.

The Secrets of Success

Handy free pdf.

Exciting. Michael Wade

Goes substack. And I loved getting some background on Michael’s early career. 

The Trilogy Starts Here. Free, 24h.

The arc of three books. An adventure, a saga, a love story, a voyage of self-discovery.

Three wonderful locations: a sea-side town; a glorious Scottish island; the wonders of rural France. 

Each book a great story filled with good guys, bad guys and heroes. 

Book 1: Meet Molly: a tale of malevolence and magic. 

Book 2: Molly and the Isle of Kasta

Book 3: Molly and Ben

The start of the trilogy free for 24h. Meet Molly, book 1.

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The Trilogy Starts Here

The arc of three books. An adventure, a saga, a love story, a voyage of self-discovery.

Three wonderful locations: a sea-side town; a glorious Scottish island; the wonders of rural France. 

Each book a great story filled with good guys, bad guys and heroes. 

Book 1: Meet Molly: a tale of malevolence and magic. 

Book 2: Molly and the Isle of Kasta

Book 3: Molly and Ben

The start of the trilogy free for 72h. Meet Molly, book 1.

Amazon kindle. Instant. You just need the free app.

Scroll less; read more.

Go read. 

The Greatest Productivity Tips, 119

Step outside for five minutes.

No phone. No coffee. No cigarette.

Ask: what’s really, really important now?

If you listen to your heart, to your gut and to the universe you’ll get re-focused.

 

The Larger The Organisation, The Bigger The Error, 22

1. Confusing marketing strategy (who are we and what are we trying to do?) with marketing communications (and how might we tell our chosen segments?).
2. 'Rolling out' values. You WILL have integrity.
3. Failing to run meetings professionally because we are all so very, very easily distracted.
4. Not having a clear and present expenses policy.
5. Buying a PowerPoint site licence. Oh, man....
6. Considering money and motivation to be inter-changeable.
7. Offering free soda.
8. Allowing lunch to be delivered to your desk.
9. Or eaten at your desk.
10. Seeing people as their security badge. Which may or may not be visibly around their neck at all times.
11. Still believing  they can re-create their start-up mojo. Instead of deciding to grow up and shift to the next stage of maturity. 
12. Creating fancy titles such as 'Talent Wizard' to delay getting to the heart of the problem: lack of leadership.
13. Lagging in technology so the personal phone is better than the work phone. And don't even mention the laptop....
14. Copying the new, fast, competitive start-up rather than leaping it.
15. Pretending and believing their own stories which they feed to their agency who adds hyperbole and then creates giant posters which sit in reception .....
16. Training leadership via on-line courses.
17. Selling their soul to the markets.
18. Adding procedures, protocols, projects, methodologies, TLAs, scrums, skunks and more and never taking anything away.
19. Encouraging a belief that 24 by 7 customers and 24 by 7 markets means 24 by 7 exhaustion.
20. Believing the external candidate is perfect whilst conveniently forgetting no investment had been made in the internal candidate, who was 'just perfect' a mere18 months ago.
21. Making it a shorter walk to the on-site coffee shop than the on-site gym.
22. Having a re-org instead of having a stop and think: who are we? what are we trying to do? And why aren't we helping great people do it?

The Larger The Organisation, The Bigger The Error, 22

1. Confusing marketing strategy (who are we and what are we trying to do?) with marketing communications (and how might we tell our chosen segments?).
2. 'Rolling out' values. You WILL have integrity.
3. Failing to run meetings professionally because we are all so very, very easily distracted.
4. Not having a clear and present expenses policy.
5. Buying a PowerPoint site licence. Oh, man....
6. Considering money and motivation to be inter-changeable.
7. Offering free soda.
8. Allowing lunch to be delivered to your desk.
9. Or eaten at your desk.
10. Seeing people as their security badge. Which may or may not be visibly around their neck at all times.
11. Still believing  they can re-create their start-up mojo. Instead of deciding to grow up and shift to the next stage of maturity. 
12. Creating fancy titles such as 'Talent Wizard' to delay getting to the heart of the problem: lack of leadership.
13. Lagging in technology so the personal phone is better than the work phone. And don't even mention the laptop....
14. Copying the new, fast, competitive start-up rather than leaping it.
15. Pretending and believing their own stories which they feed to their agency who adds hyperbole and then creates giant posters which sit in reception .....
16. Training leadership via on-line courses.
17. Selling their soul to the markets.
18. Adding procedures, protocols, projects, methodologies, TLAs, scrums, skunks and more and never taking anything away.
19. Encouraging a belief that 24 by 7 customers and 24 by 7 markets means 24 by 7 exhaustion.
20. Believing the external candidate is perfect whilst conveniently forgetting no investment had been made in the internal candidate, who was 'just perfect' a mere18 months ago.
21. Making it a shorter walk to the on-site coffee shop than the on-site gym.
22. Having a re-org instead of having a stop and think: who are we? what are we trying to do? And why aren't we helping great people do it?

Even after all these years, it’s still possible to be

Outrageous. 

Do What You Want

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