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Raffiapalm

RaffiapalmJul 30, 2023

Replication as a mental model teaches us that we don’t always need to reinvent the wheel. Often a good starting point is what others are doing. Once you get a sense and a feel for the environment you can adapt to better suit your own needs. What we need to remember is that effective replication...

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RaffiapalmJul 28, 2023

When people value relationships over status, they stimulate the brain chemistry that supports nurturing. They move from a fearful state of mind to a more trusting state of mind. Even in the face of difficult challenges, focusing on relationships shifts the conversation, which shifts the outcomes. As we will see, when relationships start to go...

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RaffiapalmJul 27, 2023

We’ve learned that time-tellers can become clock-builders, and we’re learning how to help time-tellers make the transition. We’ve learned that, if anything, we underestimated the importance of alignment, and we’re learning much about how to create alignment within organizations. We’ve learned that purpose — when properly conceived — has a profound effect upon an organization...

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RaffiapalmJul 26, 2023

When things are going best is when you have the opportunity to be the strongest, most demanding, and most effective in your leadership. A strong wind is at your back, but it requires an understanding of the perils produced by victory to prevent that wind from blowing you over. — The Score Takes Care of...

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RaffiapalmJul 24, 2023

Expertise is the inventory of knowledge and experience you possess on a particular subject. You’re not necessarily born with it; you develop it, research it, thrive on learning as much about your subject as you possibly can. The greater your expertise, the greater your potential to teach, the stronger and more productive you can be...

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RaffiapalmJul 20, 2023

When you strip away all the rational mechanics of decision making — the generation of options, the weighing of information — what’s left at the core is emotion. What drives you? What kind of person do you aspire to be? What do you believe is best for your family in the long run? (Business leaders...

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Raffiapalm

RaffiapalmJul 19, 2023

Product marketing is truly a great on-ramp for any career path in tech. It can lead anywhere, and if you’re lucky enough to lead people doing it, help grow them into tomorrow’s company leaders. — Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products (Silicon Valley Product Group) by Martina Lauchengco

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RaffiapalmJul 8, 2023

When we assess our choices, we’ll take the inside view by default. We’ll consider the information in the spotlight and use it to form quick impressions. “…” What we’ve seen, though, is that we can correct this bias by doing two things: zooming out and zooming in. When we zoom out, we take the outside...

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RaffiapalmJul 7, 2023

What I’ve learned over the years is that the best communicators learn to align their intentions with their impact. While intention is what someone wants to make happen or plans to accomplish, the impact involves the quality of the experience from the perspective of the receiver — and that impact may not correspond with what...

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RaffiapalmJul 6, 2023

A worldview is a point of view, a way of seeing the world. Worldviews are not formed objectively and supported by facts. They are subjective, values-based reflections of our experiences and beliefs. Our worldviews shape our attitudes and biases, influence our decisions and guide our actions. And while as innovators and marketers we understand all...

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RaffiapalmJul 5, 2023

Focusing is great for analyzing alternatives but terrible for spotting them. Think about the visual analogy — when we focus we sacrifice peripheral vision. And there’s no natural corrective for this; life won’t interrupt our focus to draw our attention to all of our options. — Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and...

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RaffiapalmJun 24, 2023

‘Story’ is defined as ‘a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader’. This limiting definition sells ‘story’ short. Traditionally, in business and career development, we’ve primarily used our stories as communication tactics — ways to get people to see us — while overlooking...

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RaffiapalmJun 23, 2023

A person’s identity is formed by integrating life experiences into an internalised, evolving story that provides him or her with a sense of purpose. We make sense of who we are by piecing together stories from our reconstructed past, perceived present and imagined future. ‘In personality psychology, what mainly counts when it comes to the...

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RaffiapalmJun 22, 2023

To transcend means “to go beyond,” but this need not compel us to adopt an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (such as the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can “go beyond” the “ordinary” powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Although I have been...

Goke Pelemo

Goke PelemoJun 22, 2023

Pursuing a New Mission

As I mentioned on my last post, one of the books that I read recently and has informed my approach to life is Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio. There are a few bits from the book that I occasionally share on Raffiapalm, and one that resonates very well with me is embedded below...

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Raffiapalm

RaffiapalmJun 17, 2023

Researchers classified the three types of behavior. The first group, termed gamblers, took high risks but exerted no influence on the outcome of events. The second group, termed conservatives, were people who took very little risk. The third group, termed achievers, had to test the limits of what they could do, and with no prompting...

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Raffiapalm

RaffiapalmJun 7, 2023

I strongly believe in the promise of technology, when directed toward the right ends, to lead to a genuinely better world for all. But I would estimate that ninety-nine percent of technologies created today only create new addictions. They “improve” our lives only in the sense that they become our new baseline of expectation, ultimately...

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RaffiapalmJun 6, 2023

Work for goals that you and your organization are excited about and think about how your tasks connect to those goals. If you’re focused on the goal, excited about achieving it, and recognize that doing some undesirable tasks to achieve the goal is required, you will have the right perspective and will be appropriately motivated....

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RaffiapalmJun 1, 2023

Whether professionals have a chance to develop intuitive expertise depends essentially on the quality and speed of feedback, as well as on sufficient opportunity to practice. Expertise is not a single skill; it is a collection of skills, and the same professional may be highly expert in some of the tasks in her domain while...

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RaffiapalmMay 31, 2023

The manager role is the “catalyst” role. As with all catalysts, the manager’s function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee’s talents and the company’s goals and between the employee’s talents...

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RaffiapalmMay 29, 2023

Those with more creativity invent ways to do things more effectively (for instance by finding good people, good technologies, and/or good designs). Those with more character are better able to wrestle with their challenges and demands. And those with more wisdom can maintain their equanimity by going to the higher level and looking down on...

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RaffiapalmMay 29, 2023

If all of the goals you set for yourself run counter to your own passions “…” question the goals you have set in the first place. Satisfaction is not found in the achievement of goals, but in their pursuit, so many of the steps along the way to your goals should be enjoyable. The most...

Raffiapalm

RaffiapalmMay 28, 2023

When we combine the behavioral realm with the cognitive and emotional realms, the full picture of self-mastery comes into view. These domains represent the ability to become the self of your highest vision. To resist the many forces which would lead you away from it. Self-mastery represents the degree to which you are capable of...

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RaffiapalmMay 24, 2023

Above all else, my wishes for you are that: You can make your work and your passion one and the same. You can struggle well with others on your common mission to produce the previously mentioned rewards. You can savor both your struggles and your rewards and; You will evolve quickly and contribute to evolution...