“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” (H. Simon, Communications and the Public Interest, 1971.)http://www.lyndonantcliff.com/positive-thinking/distraction-will-drive-you-into-mediocrity/
Telling is not training.
Plan: Failure to plan is planning to fail.In the negotiation workshop material, a planning worksheet asks all the right questions to prepare for a negotiation. I have been more than satisfied using this worksheet to prepare my PCMs (physical closing meetings.) For more specifics, stay tuned.
The top two outstanding negotiation topics are mindset and planning. In seminars, I take a room full of people and have them negotiate widgets. Great practice on tactics, yes, but even more valuable is the lesson on mindset. After the activity, we process the results from the room: What price did you go in at? What price did you write down as your ultimate (the “I won’t go beyond this” price-point?) Then I ask the adversary the same questions.I plot these 5 pieces of data: seller’s opening and ultimate, buyer’s opening and ultimate — plus resulting agreement. It is quickly revealed that the more ambitious the mindset, the more successful the result.You may have to see it to believe it, but it’ll blow your mind.
Be absolutely ruthless with your time, focus in on your goal and rip through the bad stuff like a greased Masserati on ice. http://www.lyndonantcliff.com/positive-thinking/distraction-will-drive-you-into-mediocrity/
“I’ve got no problems leading, I just can’t get anyone to follow.”
“Did you call me to say hello or did you need an attorney?”
Jimmy Streett. I had called because I was driving through Nashville, wanted to say hi.
Computer crashes, a vacation, and several job changes have taken my energy away from blogging. The blog lacks focus, yet I resist adding structure. Hope says it’ll evolve into something beautiful, attractive, meaningful.
It seems to attrack daily quotes, retaining elements of the infamous “quote board” from college. The quotes can be inspiring, funny, distant, canned, intimate, momentos. Their sources and direction are undefined. ‘Tis odd they don’t answer what did God try to teach me today.
Starbucks blabbing: I have suppressed my adventures at Starbucks for the 12 months that I have been there. Here’s how corporate it feels:
My observations covered the gamet. Am I a lifer? I work very hard at minimum wage to help Howard Shultz make his 4 million dollars a year. This company is really doing something great for the world. Look how Starbucks has transformed Danielle’s and Mario’s poverty experiences, giving them a foundation where our education and social welfare system failed. Look at Tameca, inspired by brightening so many people’s days. We push a legal drug here, an IQ score raising drug. What a waste of my time. I’m not learning anything here.
On trip to New Orleans, car resonating on a bumpy section, Katie says we’re more gallopping than riding.
Manager is eating an apple, commenting on deliciosity. Worker says “how about that apple?”