“There you are, in a big sales meeting. The client makes a weak joke in your direction and the boss looks your way. Say something. Say anything. Well, not just anything – you need something clever but innocuous, smart enough to…
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Book Report: Elements of Wit
Tagged with: aphorisms, Benjamin Errett, Boris Johnson, brevity, Cary Grant, charm, chutzpah, compassion, confidence, conversation, cultural literacy, Donald Trump, Dorothy Parker, Dunning-Kruger effect, Elements of Wit, flow, Flynn Effect, Frinkiac, George Clooney, humour, hustle, illusory superiority, intuition, Jay-Z, Lil' Wayne, Mark Twain, Nora Ephron, Oscar Levant, Oscar Wilde, refreshment, resilience, righteousness, romance, Seinfeld, Shakespeare, Steve Martin, Strunk and White, The Simpsons, Winston Churchill, wit
Posted in Books, Everything
Posted in Books, Everything
Book Report: Obliquity
“In general, oblique approaches recognize that complex objectives tend to be imprecisely defined and contain many elements that are not necessarily or obviously compatible with each other, and that we learn about the nature of the objectives and the means…
Tagged with: Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin, David Beckham, eudaimonia, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin's Gambit, Goodhart's Law, hindsight bias, Homo economicus, John Kay, metrics, objectives, Obliquity, Robert McNamara, shareholder value, strategy, Winston Churchill
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Book Report: Words that Work
“For most people, language is functional rather than being an end in itself. For me, it’s the people that are the end; language is just a tool to reach them, a means to an end. But it’s not enough to simply stand there and marvel at…
Tagged with: Bill Maher, corporate communications, Frank Luntz, George Orwell, Jack Welch, Robert F. Kennedy, Rudy Giuliani, Will Rogers, Winston Churchill, words that work
Posted in Advertising, Books, Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Advertising, Books, Leadership, Marketing
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