Midweek Material (June 21, 2023)

“Midweek Material” curates articles, podcasts, videos, etc. on a variety of topics including law, marketing/sales, productivity and more. How to maximize your time reading [Article]: Reading time is limited and should be directed at the knowledge that stands the test of time. The opportunity cost of reading something new is re-reading the best book you’ve… Continue reading Midweek Material (June 21, 2023)

Midweek Material (June 14, 2023)

“Midweek Material” curates articles, podcasts, videos, etc. on a variety of topics including law, marketing/sales, productivity and more. Four Stanford professors on motivation, goals, and more [Podcast]:        And I think the thing that I like to think about is you should always think about a decision, where you think about an experiment, that is being… Continue reading Midweek Material (June 14, 2023)

Midweek Material (June 7, 2023)

“Midweek Material” curates articles, podcasts, videos, etc. on a variety of topics including law, marketing/sales, productivity and more. Proper blue ocean strategy implementation [Podcast]: What we found is that managers’ existing mental models, the assumptions about what works in competing and existing industry space, they often apply to their efforts to create new markets and… Continue reading Midweek Material (June 7, 2023)

Midweek Material (April 19, 2023)

“Midweek Material” curates articles, podcasts, videos, etc. on a variety of topics including law, marketing/sales, productivity and more. Founder and director of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab B.J. Fogg discusses the “information action fallacy,” “approach celebration,” and other aspects of habit-building [Podcast]: It’s emotions that create habits. And that’s why the feeling of success is… Continue reading Midweek Material (April 19, 2023)

Midweek Material (April 12, 2023)

“Midweek Material” curates articles, podcasts, videos, etc. on a variety of topics including law, marketing/sales, productivity and more. How to build a culture of inclusive idea-generation and quick decision-making [Podcast]: The value of that failure is incalculable because you tried something, it didn’t work—well, then you try something else, it doesn’t work. Persistence doesn’t mean… Continue reading Midweek Material (April 12, 2023)

Midweek Material (March 29, 2023)

“Midweek Material” curates articles, podcasts, videos, etc. on a variety of topics including law, marketing/sales, productivity and more. Spotify’s strategy to quickly win the trust of music record labels and fans [Podcast]: It really started with just being your own customer in the sense that I had this idea of the kind of product that… Continue reading Midweek Material (March 29, 2023)

Midweek Material (March 22, 2023)

“Midweek Material” curates articles, podcasts, videos, etc. on a variety of topics including law, marketing/sales, productivity and more. “Losing yourself” to keep your audience engaged [Podcast]: We have people [a “skeptic committee”] try to put out on the table every single way someone might resist, every single way someone might be hurt, every single way… Continue reading Midweek Material (March 22, 2023)

Midweek Material (March 15, 2023)

“Midweek Material” curates articles, podcasts, videos, etc. on a variety of topics including law, marketing/sales, productivity and more. Donald Miller explains an “airplane approach” to running your business [Podcast]: The key differentiator that I think keeps a business alive is that your mission statement actually includes three economic objectives. We are going to sell X… Continue reading Midweek Material (March 15, 2023)

Midweek Material (February 22, 2023)

“Midweek Material” curates articles, podcasts, videos, etc. on a variety of topics including law, marketing/sales, productivity and more. The drawbacks of instinctive decisions and a process to “create space” for better decision-making [Podcast]: You can lean in and engage, lean back, go to the data, lean with and connect or worry about the emotional personal… Continue reading Midweek Material (February 22, 2023)

Midweek Material (February 15, 2023)

“Midweek Material” curates articles, podcasts, videos, etc. on a variety of topics including law, marketing/sales, productivity and more. How leaders can embrace artificial intelligence [Podcast]: Look, there is transformation, and with transformation comes stress, uncertainty, unsettlement, risk, pain, all of that sort of stuff. And I am deeply sympathetic to all of that. But it’s… Continue reading Midweek Material (February 15, 2023)