"Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It" by Chris Voss is a powerful guide to negotiation rooted in psychological principles and real-life experiences from Voss's time as an FBI hostage negotiator. Voss challenges conventional...
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Why It’s Not Enough to Zoom – Face To Face Meetings Convert 2X Better Than Virtual Meetings
You are 34X more likely to convert face to face than via email. Think about how much harder you have to work, even though email scales, you are still fighting many more forces working against you, like spam filters, the ease of saying “No” or “Unsubscribe” and so on....
Capacity Counts: The 5 Lies You Buy Into That Cause You To Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
Look back on your past year. How many initiatives and projects did you tell yourself, your spouse and your team that you were going to accomplish? How much actually got done? Don’t worry, those horrible stats are what most establish owners struggle with and it all...
20 Key Takeaways on Negotiations From Chris Voss’ “Never Split the Difference”
"Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It" by Chris Voss is a powerful guide to negotiation rooted in psychological principles and real-life experiences from Voss's time as an FBI hostage negotiator. Voss challenges conventional...
Why It’s Not Enough to Zoom – Face To Face Meetings Convert 2X Better Than Virtual Meetings
You are 34X more likely to convert face to face than via email. Think about how much harder you have to work, even though email scales, you are still fighting many more forces working against you, like spam filters, the ease of saying “No” or “Unsubscribe” and so on....
Capacity Counts: The 5 Lies You Buy Into That Cause You To Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
Look back on your past year. How many initiatives and projects did you tell yourself, your spouse and your team that you were going to accomplish? How much actually got done? Don’t worry, those horrible stats are what most establish owners struggle with and it all...
Addicted to Zeroing Out Your Inbox? Here’s Why You Need To Stop
When you sit at your computer, if the first screen you pop open is your email inbox, it’s probably your goto workspace throughout your day. The inbox is a great place to be responsive to business needs and customers, but it’s overrun with distractions, that help you...
The Heroik Hour Podcast 018 – 7 Deadly Symptoms of Life without a CAPE
https://youtu.be/FARi10M_tQM Welcome to the Heroik Hour, the podcast where we get you mission ready for life by giving you a little clarity, alignment, purpose, and energy or as we refer to it a CAPE. I’m your host, Nicholas McGill, Chief Experience Officer for Heroik...
Episode 14: The 10 Perils of Platforms and 11 Survival Tips to Overcome Them
https://youtu.be/AcRXZJvnLcA Welcome to the Heroik Hour, the podcast where we discuss and bring together Technology Leadership and Culture to help you fired up and mission ready for life. I’m your host, Nicholas McGill, Chief Experience Officer for Heroik Media. Thank...
I Want to Believe But…Why Quantifying Social Capital is So Completely Full of It
TL:DR - Digital metrics of Social Capital like (followers, likes, connections) fail to fulfill their primary function - to accurately measure and account for the influence and reach of relationships between brands, platforms, and audience. The systems and...
The 4 Secret Methods The Top Social Media Marketers Use to Work Around Pay to Play Platforms Like Facebook
Want more bang for your buck on social media? I’m sick of people getting robbed on it, and then called wrong or negative when they get frustrated. It’s not you. It’s them. Here are 3 sneaky methods the top marketers are using to work-around the BS of Facebook and...
Looking at Big Data, Does More Guarantee Better?
Are you struggling with calculating ROI on your big data initiatives? You’re not alone. Many are reluctant to ask their peers about it, others don’t talk about it, but the elephant in the room needs to come atop the agenda, as does the culture that finds it...
Becoming Indispensible: 9 Ways to Cultivate an Adaptive Mindset at Work
Given the complexity and speed of which things change in our lives these days, an adaptive mindset is essential to building a resilient, sustainable and thriving business. An adaptive mindset is a mental attitude of assessing the facts and circumstances of the...
Addicted to Zeroing Out Your Inbox? Here’s Why You Need To Stop
The Heroik Hour Podcast 018 – 7 Deadly Symptoms of Life without a CAPE
Episode 14: The 10 Perils of Platforms and 11 Survival Tips to Overcome Them
I Want to Believe But…Why Quantifying Social Capital is So Completely Full of It
The 4 Secret Methods The Top Social Media Marketers Use to Work Around Pay to Play Platforms Like Facebook
Looking at Big Data, Does More Guarantee Better?
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