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Finish Your Masterpiece with Deliberate Goal Planning
To achieve great things, start by clarifying your end game. A look at how to finish creative projects, with examples from Michelangelo to the Beatles.
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Apologies Are a Sign of Strength
We all make bad decisions or find ourselves in error. But it's how we own up to our mistakes that makes all the
difference.
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Fight Against Your Short-Term Rewards
From a young age, we are ingrained with a powerful short-term reward system. Yet, to make bold ideas happen, short-term rewards must be transcended.
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Encourage Daylighting
Sneaking side projects into a 9-to-7 schedule is becoming a way of life. We look at the benefits of encouraging "passion projects" at work.
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Communicate Your Strengths to Get Respect
The sad truth is that genius can easily go unnoticed. We must become our own best advocates and communicate our strengths and talents to others.
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Pressure Can Push Good Ideas Forward
When you share your goals
broadly, you risk "failing" in the eyes of those you respect. However,
ideas never happen in isolation.
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Fight Your Way to Breakthroughs
Many of us tend to shy away from confrontation, but the upside of disagreement is that it forces teams to explore the full range of possible solutions.…
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Checkpoints: Accountability
You're more likely to follow through with an idea when you know someone else is watching, waiting, or participating.
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Breaking Schoolhouse Habits
Our years of formal schooling have created habits that actually set us back when it comes to productivity and pushing ideas forward.
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Supervising Productivity
Instilling accountability is crucial for moving ideas forward, but Big Brother-ish supervision can quash creativity. We look at finding the balance.
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Share To Make Ideas Happen
The idea of sharing ideas liberally defies the age-old instinct to keep ideas secret. But "going public" can ensure your idea doesn't die in isolation.…
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Our Action Addiction
After years of research, we developed the Action Method, a simple and easily customized method for managing projects. Then we became the guinea pigs.
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