3-2-1: On hard conversations, how to ruin a good strategy, and asking for what you want
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3-2-1: On hard conversations, how to ruin a good strategy, and asking for what you want
- “How to clarify a concept you can’t articulate:
1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.
2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).
3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?”from 3-2-1: On hard conversations, how to ruin a good strategy, and asking for what you want by James Clear
Kyle Steinike added
Famously, when Gmail came along, Google told us to stop trying to organize (and delete) our email and instead just rely on search to find what we’re looking for. Broadly I’d say that approach has worked well, and in the vast majority of cases, I err on the side of risking losing track of something later instead of spending the time to organize it n
... See morefrom The Folksonomy Edition by Colin Nagy
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- How to clarify a concept you can’t articulate:
1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.
2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).
3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?from 3-2-1: On hard conversations, how to ruin a good strategy, and asking for what you want by James Clear
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How great generalists think
"How to clarify a concept you can't articulate:
1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.
2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).
3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?"(James Clear newsletter)
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- While email's continued evolution is significant, what it has retained from the old web sets it apart from the other pretty, convenient apps. Email is an open, interoperable protocol. Someone can use Google's service, spin up a server of her own, or send messages through Microsoft's enterprise software. And yet all of these people can communicate s... See more
from Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet by Alexis Madrigal
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- Achieving strategic clarity is hard. It takes asking tough questions about tradeoffs, deep concentration to get to the very essence of the issues and real courage to cut off competing priorities. It is worth the effort because with real clarity, people, teams and organizations can fully mobilize, break through to the next level and achieve somethin... See more
from If I Read One More Platitude-Filled Mission Statement, I'll Scream - Greg McKeown by on June 7
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