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How to Create Luck6 min · Jan 18th · Your entire worldview changes when you realize you can *create luck*. · Shared by 2095, including Pascal Sulser, ash
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More precisely, you can actively create optimal conditions for lucky things to happen to you.
Roman Pichler
A Product Owner Career Path7 min · Jan 17th · This article explains how agile product people can advance their careers, from owning a product part to becoming the head of product. · Shared by 274, including Pascal Sulser, Dan Tousignant, CEO, Lean-Agile Coach
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Eric Barker
Lessons From The Samurai: The Secret To Always Being At Your Best5 min · 2022-12-09 · What secret did the samurai of Japan know about always being at your best? It doesn't have to do with swordsmanship. It's a very simple idea we can all use. · Shared by 1295, including Pascal Sulser, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao
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Anything that gives you a feeling of control over your situation helps you keep your cool.
Harvard Business Review
How Great Leaders Communicate6 min · 2022-11-23 · Transformational leaders are exceptional communicators. In this piece, the author outlines four communication strategies to help motivate and inspire your team: 1) Use short words to talk about hard… · Shared by 781, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Deirdre Breakenridge, Yale SOM, Pascal Sulser, Kate Nasser, Antonio Vieira Santos, davidabrock, Thomas Pleil, Tiffani Bova
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communication
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Big Think
3 rules to express your thoughts so that everyone will understand you4 min · 2022-12-02 · It can be challenging to express your thoughts clearly. Alan Alda recommends three rules of three for effective and empathic communication. · Shared by 3943, including Daniel Pink, Pascal Sulser, tektology, Ines Bieler
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Maybe this sounds familiar: You’re expressing a difficult idea, thought, or feeling, and at the moment, it seems to be going well. Your audience is nodding at the appropriate beats. Your cadence has an uncharacteristic flow and eloquence. You even snuck in the world profligate and are 90% sure you used it properly. (Well, 80% sure. Definitely going to look it up later.)
Farnam Street
Friction: The Hidden Force Holding You Back2 min · 2022-06-12 · One of the easiest ways to increase your value to an organization is to reduce the friction required to get you to do your job. You don't need to learn anything other than ... · Shared by 1032, including Pascal Sulser, Ines Bieler, Roger Dooley
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One of the easiest ways to increase your value to an organization is to reduce the friction required to get you to do your job.
Harvard Business Review
What Amazing Bosses Do Differently4 min · From 2015 · To be a superboss, do five things well. · Shared by 82, including Ian M Calvert, Deirdre Breakenridge
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Use regular—at least weekly—one-on-one conversations to give lots of coaching.
Harvard Business Review
Promotions Aren’t Just About Your Skills5 min · From 2021 · Five strategies for employees who’ve been told they’re “just not ready.” · Shared by 12, including Pascal Sulser
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Want to Improve Your Career? Become an Uncertainty Killer4 min · 2021-08-11 · On my favorite piece of career advice and why it can help to improve your finances. · Shared by 201, including Pascal Sulser, Katja Evertz, Andrew Ermogenous, Thomas Power, Barry Ritholtz
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I guarantee that if you can make other peoples’ lives more certain, they will sing your praises. You will build trust at every turn and create allies wherever you go.
Harvard Business Review
5 Relationships You Need to Build a Successful Career8 min · 2021-06-09 · A mentor is not enough. · Shared by 153, including Pascal Sulser
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Lenny Rachitsky
Getting buy-in6 min · 2021-06-10 · By special guest contributor Shivani Berry, CEO & Founder of Ascend’s Leadership Program · Shared by 202, including Pascal Sulser
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One big reason we fail to get buy-in is that we assume everyone else is thinking what we’re thinking. Storytelling helps break through this roadblock.
Insider Business
The top 24 best business schools for your money5 min · 2021-06-18 · The tuition is low and the starting salary is high at these b-schools. · Shared by 4, including Pascal Sulser
Harvard Business School
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success7 min · 2021-04-20 · Will that big idea create value? In Better, Simpler Strategy, Felix Oberholzer-Gee shows how even the most innovative companies adhere to one basic principle. · Shared by 191, including Vincenzo Tremonte, Scott Monty, Arie Goldshlager, Christian Hartmann, Gini Dietrich, Stephan Woodtli, Pascal Sulser, Bernhard Huessy, Robert Rose
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every segment of the economy, the very best companies lead their peers by wide margins
Farnam Street
Efficiency is the Enemy8 min · 2021-05-03 · If you ever find yourself stressed, overwhelmed, sinking into stasis despite wanting to change, or frustrated when you can’t respond to new opportunities, you need more slack in your life. Here’s how… · Shared by 674, including Scott Murray, Jason Lauritsen, Scott Monty, Faik Ersoy, Simon Lee, @arnicas@mstdn.social, Mark Bradley, Pascal Sulser, Kenneth Kalmer, Andreas Spiegler, Gabriele, davidabrock, Oscar MacDonald, Gretchen McCulloch, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷
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Having a little bit of wiggle room allows us to respond to changing circumstances, to experiment, and to do things that might not work.
Ness Labs
Are you a taker, a giver, or a matcher?5 min · 2021-04-19 · Takers, givers, and matchers achieve different outcomes. Surprisingly, givers display the most radically distinctive results. · Shared by 503, including Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Pascal Sulser, Christian Hartmann, Vikram, Stephanie A Kowalski, sircharlsxavier
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The worst performers and the best performers are givers; takers and matchers are more likely to land in the middle. (…) Givers dominate the bottom and the top of the success ladder.
Fast Company
10 questions to ask in a job interview that will really expose a company’s culture3 min · 2021-04-08 · Spoiler alert: “What’s the culture like here?” is definitely NOT one of them. · Shared by 381, including Hannah Morgan, Birgit Schefer, Chris Isak 👩‍💻 #SXSW, Esther Schindler, Gabriele, Minda Harts, Pascal Sulser
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Tell me about someone you are proud of. This is going to let you know which behaviors and skills they value. You can also learn their attitude towards developing people and celebrating success along the way. 
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