Brandon Marcus
@brandonjmarc
Brandon Marcus
If you want to connect with someone, ask them what they’re feeling and then reveal your own emotions. Ask questions to invite others to reveal their vulnerabilities, and then be vulnerable in return.
- Supercommunicators
A Thought Partner is someone who, through a practice of researching, reading, learning, asking questions, and writing, helps partners in developing their ideas , knowledge, and thinking.
Tom Critchlow • Narrative Strategy
In the process of researching, thinking through, and writing, we end up bringing ideas within the company and influencing its thinking. In some cases this is even done on purpose, not just as a side benefit of writing. Many of us become a kind of “Editor-in-chief of ideas circulating in the organization.”
Tom Critchlow • Narrative Strategy
utopian thinking is composed of four modes: “Prospective thinking, whereby this utopian ‘horizon’ is defined;” “critical thinking, which demands an interrogation of the present;” “holistic thinking, which says that society works as a whole of composite paths;” and “creative thinking, which keeps alive the ‘What if?’ possibilities of the future.” Al... See more
Patrick Tanguay • The Toolkit of Utopian Thinking ⊗ the Free and Infinite Laboratory of the Mind ⊗ the Broligarchs Have a Dark Vision
What kind of conversation is this? Do you want to be:
Helped? A practical What's This Really About? conversation
Hugged? An emotional How Do We Feel? conversation
Or Heard? A more social Who Are We? conversation
Supercommunicators
We are in an age of noise.
The frameworks that got us here, of jobs-to-be-done or product-market fit, will be insufficient going forward. For founders to have extraordinary outcomes, they will have to find alpha in markets that aren’t easily understood.
Which is to say, technology alone won’t be enough. The other essential ingredient will be taste.... See more
The frameworks that got us here, of jobs-to-be-done or product-market fit, will be insufficient going forward. For founders to have extraordinary outcomes, they will have to find alpha in markets that aren’t easily understood.
Which is to say, technology alone won’t be enough. The other essential ingredient will be taste.... See more