Some Prefer No Sex to Bad PowerPoint
From Talking Leadership: “A new survey by online presentation company, SlideRocket, confirms what we already know – nobody wants to sit through another bad PowerPoint presentation. What caught my eye was just how badly people were turned off by PowerPoint.”
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Perfect is the enemy of good
From Business Leaders Learning: “Voltaire wrote ‘Perfect is the enemy of good.’
Many of us have done it. Spend too long on that email, ‘improve’ that agenda, re-write that proposal. Of course it must be right, but in many cases, it is right already. And it must be on time too.”
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Don’t Try to Change Things You Can’t
From Steve Tobak: “You stress over things you shouldn’t, don’t focus on things you should, and maybe even end up screwing up your job, career, or organization in the process.
Don’t believe me? Here are a few examples of how you stress over things and try to change people you have no control over…”
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10 Reasons Your Team Hates You
From thoughtLEADERS: “Your team hates you. Really. They do. They hate their boss (you) but they just won’t say so because they like getting paid. But when they go home at night, they spill their bile about their taskmaster of a boss who does nothing but drive them crazy (isn’t that what you do too?).”
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