The Templeton Compression and the Sales Ready Product
Don Templeton envisioned and developed the concept of a Sales Ready Product.
^ADJ: Lots of takeouts for anyone building new products and services, and a good reminder: Know Your Customer’s Pain
Be a thermostat, not a thermometer
As I’ve learned more about how humans interact with one another at work, I’ve been repeatedly reminded that we are very easily influenced by the mood of those around us. It’s usually not even something we do consciously; we just see someone using a different tone of voice or shifting their body language, and something deep in our brain notices it.
^ADJ: Key message - being intentional
Nourishing your Garden of Networks
Strategic individuals excel in five distinct areas:
Envisioning the future by connecting dots in the external environment (macro, market, competition, customers, regulators)1
Articulating a vision for how an organization can uniquely capitalize on these external trends
Translating this future vision into an aspirational yet executable multi-year plan that outlines the value to stakeholders as well as a high-level timeline
Balancing analytics (data, logic) and intuition in decision-making
Adapting proactively to change both in the moment and over longer time horizons
How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unravelled
The tech company Wirecard was embraced by the German élite. But a reporter discovered that behind the façade of innovation were lies and links to Russian intelligence.
Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did it Better
One of the weird things about Britain, despite its being the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, is that its financial infrastructure was for a long time remarkably backward. Its “Financial Revolution”, by which both people and the state began to borrow at ever lower interest rates, only really took off in the early eighteenth century — long after London’s extraordinary growth in 1550-1650, when it had suddenly expanded eightfold to become one of Europe’s most important commercial hubs. Indeed, even for much of the late seventeenth century, England lacked many of the most basic financial institutions that had been used for decades and decades by their most important rival and trading partner, the Dutch Republic.
The 7 factors that significantly impact your blood sugar
Certain key factors directly impact your blood glucose levels and your metabolic health. Here are the seven to pay attention to.
^ADJ: Interesting the effect that sleep can have on your blood glucose levels