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Words of Wisdom Lloyd: Work

My 4 choice lessons of Ryan Freitas's "35 lessons in 35 years"

Work

- Debates over terminology and semantics are for archivists and academics. If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.

- No one gives a damn about the size of your to-do list.

- How we handle ambiguity and failure have a lot to do with our potential for success.

- Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.

 

 

 

For all 35 go here

 

(via @mathowie )

Loser Talk - My New Favorite Phrase

Read this article on my iPhone this morning. My favorite part of this  WSJ in depth profile of Mickey Drexler, J Crew CEO, has become my new a favorite phrase... "Loser Talk". Any time you find yourself saying, "It can't be done", well, you're guilty of loser talk... Makes you think differently, every time.

“I hate loser talk,” he says constantly. Loser talk to him means saying, “It can’t be done.” http://bit.ly/ak0wLwless than a minute ago via BrizzlyNancy King
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Drive - Visual Summary of Daniel Pink's Book

I read Daniel Pink's book Drive and have said to myself, "You know, someday I should write a blog post about it. "

Today, Daniel PInk himself posted a video RSA and Cognitive Media did of his Drive presentation, all with a white board. 10 minutes of viewing and you'll get the picture.

Compensation needs a rethink.

Engagement

You know those teachers in your life that were able to engage you in a way that made you really want to do your best?  Yeah, here's one.  Happy Friday!

(hat tip to Mighty Girl - Maggie Mason)

Twitter Finds : Tom Waits

Nothing beats the drama of a bullhorn.less than a minute ago via webTom Waits
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Because I can Relate to the Grateful Dead

I met my husband at a Grateful Dead concert in Eugene, Oregon in 1988. At the time, I didn't understand the genius of the band. In fact, it was serendipity that brought me there.  I've grown an appreciation as the years have gone by (20+)  and this  Atlantic article via lifehacker  gives me even more of an understanding of their complete genius.

Oddly enough the Dead’s influence on the business world may turn out to be a significant part of its legacy. Without intending to—while intending, in fact, to do just the opposite—the band pioneered ideas and practices that were subsequently embraced by corporate America. One was to focus intensely on its most loyal fans. It established a telephone hotline to alert them to its touring schedule ahead of any public announcement, reserved for them some of the best seats in the house, and capped the price of tickets, which the band distributed through its own mail-order house. If you lived in New York and wanted to see a show in Seattle, you didn’t have to travel there to get tickets—and you could get really good tickets, without even camping out. “The Dead were masters of creating and delivering superior customer value,” Barry Barnes, a business professor at the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University, in Florida, told me. Treating customers well may sound like common sense. But it represented a break from the top-down ethos of many organizations in the 1960s and ’70s. Only in the 1980s, faced with competition from Japan, did American CEOs and management theorists widely adopt a customer-first orientation.

What a long strange trip it's been....

Read the full article here.

Second Guessing

#17 "Don’t be too severe upon yourself, or underrate yourself, but do yourself justice". - Hesketh Pearson

(via the happiness project  - Gretchen Rubin)

Also, in the sidebar, my Mighty Life List inspired by Maggie Mason and her own tackling of big and simple ideas.

What if an Org Chart Showed How Stuff Gets Done?

I found this org chart via a design site referenced by  a Tweet that I can't find (but when I do I'll make sure to cite it) * update @joshspear

via staple design

(the original site has an image you can enlarge)

Not only is it pretty, it actually shows how it all gets done, at Disney in 1943.  I'll never look at a regular org chart the same way again. This one is just too good.

 

Try Work/Life Congruence

Remember work/life balance?   After years of seeking out what that really meant I realized balance is the wrong word.

"Work-Life Balance…

Really? I didn’t know we died when we got to work and came back to life afterwards. I must have missed the transition when this oxymoron was first coined…”from here on out work is no longer part of your life.” That really must suck for a farmer—they must never be alive. Stop thinking life and work are separate…got news for you-life is work and work is life and if you don’t like your job don’t try to solve it by spending the least amount of time there."  (via Steve Fogarty and his blog Recruiting Revolution) "

I think of the goal as congruence between your income generating related life and you non income generating related life. There is nothing to balance, here. Just a life to make flow as well as you can. (and it doesn't always mean you absolutely love what you do for a living)

Mark Twain: FTW

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” — Mark Twain (via my brother Tom Lynn)