The Danger of Overwhelm Versus a Clear Path

As we have mentioned before, simplification is a powerful tool for productivity.  When you want to do something, this can be very effective, but how about if you would like to help someone achieve a particular result.  It could be making a sale, coaching them to achieve a result or simply giving advice. Rather than create a long, complicated process […]

Don’t Take it Personally

With the widespread use of the internet, many great advances have occurred particularly in the dispersal of knowledge.  We have more information at our fingertips than ever.  This has also created a situation where people are interacting with their devices more and with people less and this has worsened one particular behavior, the criticism and attacking of people online. Until […]

The Importance of Context in Communication

Communication is something we learn very early as children.  Newborn infants are able to recognize the voice of their mother immediately on being born and react to it depending on what they want.  Babies have different cries to distinguish whether they are hungry, tired or need to be changed.  As we grow older, we learn to communicate not just with […]

Who Should You Learn From?

It seems that the world is constantly fighting for our attention.  It used to be the radio in the car and the television at home continually bombarding us with advertisements for everything and anything.  Now that we live in a digital age, virtual ads are everywhere, whether they pop up on web pages, show up in our social media feeds […]

Cows vs. Bears and Hippos vs. Sharks.

When we think of deadly animals, two of the most notorious that come to mind are the bear and the shark.  They are big, aggressive and seemingly unstoppable.  If you are in the wilderness and encounter a large bear, particularly a mother bear with cubs, you have little hope of effectively defending yourself if you are attacked.  The same could […]