Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
Simon Joliveau Breney
No one ever complained that their team was too aligned.
Jasper Polak • The Hidden Power of Planning
There’s something deeper, more visceral going on when people walk away not only from saving lives but from making money. It somehow feels beneath us to use a checklist, an embarrassment. It runs counter to deeply held beliefs about how the truly great among us—those we aspire to be—handle situations of high stakes and complexity. The truly great
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Editing trick: Try running your writing through AI and asking what some people might find obnoxious. It’s a surprisingly powerful editing trick.
David Perell • Tweet
When I was working on ads one of the values we developed for our leadership team was to Be Plainspoken. That means communicating in an unadorned manner. It means having the conviction to be honest with one another so we can all improve. It means being direct not out of cruelty but out of an abundance of kindness.
boz.com • Be Plainspoken
fav chatGPT prompt: Based on all of our interactions, what is the question that I should be asking, but am not?
Our desire to maintain harmony can cause us to be indirect about uncomfortable truths. Our desire to influence can cause us to pre-emptively address every arcane objection. Our desire to impress can cause us to use more language than necessary. And the expectations we have internalized about corporate communication often cause us to write in a way
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