to communicate well
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to communicate well
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a
Very early, I had a teacher who told me, “You have to choose carefully what you want to say. You can’t just say everything is wrong. People won’t like it.” So, I praise a lot of people all the time. I say what is good. I could stand on stage and say, “You are all ignorant,” but I don’t. I say, “I don’t know either.” So, I think it’s best to avoid... See more
Shanna Carpenter • Q&A with Hans Rosling (Part 2): How to change Fidel Castro’s mind … and everybody else’s | TED Blog
incredible article on communication in the design process
I SAY THIS GENUINELY AND WITH NO SUBTEXT
Joanna Goddard • The Best Thing to Text a Friend | Cup of Jo
love this phrase… funny how a simple choice of words can make you sound so much more real
Closed questions are also bad questions. Instead of surrendering power, the questioner is imposing a limit on how the question can be answered.