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Focus Your Strengths, Don’t Fault Them

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Scott BelskyI’ve had this arti­cle on How to Make Your Busi­ness Dream a Real­ity open in my browser for a cou­ple of weeks now since I saw it tweeted. I kept it there think­ing I should riff on it, and just didn’t get to it… until now. The arti­cle sub­ti­tle is “Com­ing up with ideas is easy. Exe­cut­ing on them is the hard part. These tips from Scott Bel­sky can help get you started.” Sounds intrigu­ing, right? Unfor­tu­nately, he had me sneer­ing when I hit point #1, which reads:

Hire the killjoys.
The first step to acti­vat­ing the Action Method, Bel­sky says, is to cre­ate an “immune sys­tem” that kills ideas. This means hir­ing killjoys to cap­ture every action step and say no to new ideas — right­fully so, in most cases.

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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior Ori Brafman has previously co-written The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations along with Rod Beckstrom. I've previously mentioned the book a couple of times, and was looking forward to delving into Ori's new book, Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior, written with his brother, Rom Brafman.  I was pleased when it arrived by FedEx, and I devoured it pretty quickly.

Comparing well with Blink and The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, Sway, like Starfish, is well-written and entertaining as the Brafmans explain how people's judgment is swayed in various contexts.  Recognizing the types of context in which one's judgment is likely to be swayed can help avert poor decision-making.  As the old saying goes, "forewarned is forearmed."

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