Category: Book Notes
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The First Minute: How to Start Conversations that Get Results
By Chris Fenning Framing = Content + Intent + Key Message Content: Intent: Key Message: Keep topics separate. Lay out the three things you want to talk about and keep on track as you reach key message. Summaries: Work conversations are really one of three things: No problem is too complicated to be summarized in…
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The Pricing Model Revolution
By Danilo Zatta “If you’ve got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, that’s a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by 10 percent, then you’ve got a terrible business.” – Warren Buffett Pricing is the most effective way to change…
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Switch
How to Change Things When Change Is Hard By Chip Heath + Dan Heath People don’t see the need to change We’ve never done it that way We should do something but we’re bogged down in analysis The environment changed and we need to adapt People aren’t motivated I’ll do it tomorrow It’ll never work
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Recommended Books
People are always asking me for book recommendations for learning skills. Here’s where those books go. Updated periodically. (I get a tiny kickback if you buy from the link.) * = I have a blog summary, search for it Leadership Communication Money Business Sales Self Improvement Just good life reads
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Automation Tools We Use at The Pad Climbing
Remember: Someone has to be the tzar of all this, ideally taking the certification level classes and leading integration and implementation. Hire it out if you are not into this.
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Buy Back Your Time
By Dan Martell – Buy It At this point, it’s good to ask yourself what you’d fill your time with if you weren’t doing the things that are low value to you. Build a DRIP matrix Doesn’t make you happy Makes you happy Makes you money ReplacementMakes you money, but drains your energyIdentify these and…
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Building Thinking Classrooms by Peter LilJedahl
I was in advanced academics throughout my school career and I absolutely thrive with the traditional method of education (talk about a thing, then practice it) but having watched how dog training and handling has evolved since I learned it – and now homeschooling my kids, I realize that a lot of the trouble I’ve…
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Inverting the Hierarchy: When Employers Feel Unsafe
Imagine you’re at the helm of a ship, guiding it through stormy seas, but what if the storm is brewing inside the ship itself? This is the untold story of the captains of industry—employers like us—and the hidden battles we face for a safe harbor in our own companies. There are a million articles out…
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Surviving Early Childhood if Modern Motherhood isn’t Your Calling
I pride myself on doing things a little differently, on doing things that give me joy when it might embarrass someone else. So when I found out I was pregnant with twins, I was pretty excited because it was gonna be a little different. But I also . . . wasn’t excited about the basic…
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The First Twenty Hours
By Josh Kaufman If our life is good for one thing, it’s the ride. I want to go out being able to do everything I ever dreamed of. Will this book make that happen? 10 Principles of Skill Acquisition 10 Principals for Effective Learning
