Malpractice by one of us is malpractice by all of us.
When a calling turns into an industry, that can change.
In an industry, it’s buyer beware. It’s us against the rest. It’s a quiet line of self-preservation.
But in a profession, it’s clear that a service is on offer, and that standards and trust matter.
When it comes to sales,pitch or presentation you want to be on the winning side by using emotions rather than logic.Salt is a need, a glass of chilled margarita is a want.
We are moving to everything want even for what used to be need sector goods or services due to supply of so many choices in the market.
To be successful please follow this mantra and thank me later;
-Lead with wants
-Follow up with value
-Close with price
Emotional savvy salesperson will remember one truth;never try to create a need.
The new ritual, even more than checking the windows and doors before bed, is to check the incoming. Doom scroll a bit, check Slack and email and make sure there are no loose ends.
And then the ritual continues, first thing in the morning as we check the overnights, to make sure everything is still okay.
What if, instead, just for a week, the last thing we did was make a list of exciting opportunities for the future? And if the first thing after waking up was doing some morning pages and jotting down what we’re looking forward to?
There’s plenty of time to check the windows and doors during the rest of the day.
The active imagination has no trouble imagining the negative outcomes of your new plan, your next speech or that meeting you have coming up.
It’s easy to visualize and even rehearse all the things that can go wrong.
The thing is: clear visualization, repeated again and again, doesn’t actually decrease the chances you’re going to fail. In fact, it probably increases the odds.
When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time.
The biggest opportunity in this life is to fight this two aspects;
1.Self doubt
2.Laziness
All of us can improve our impact and results,its how you keep fighting the above two in your mind,body and soul.
To fight self doubt; read more self help books,blogs,articles etc. Become an avid reader.More so, improve you skills every year – say Leadership,Advanced Excel,Communication etc
On laziness;this is on all of us even the founders of Google and Amazon.The above still helps to fight laziness plus you could add the following; have your goals but break them to daily tasks,weekly and monthly.A daily to do list works wonder for me..yes Daily to do list,if possible please create this an evening before the next day.In addition,read books of people who have done what you want to achieve..Success in anything is neither magic or luck;persistence is the key!
There you go,aim to fight your self doubt and laziness daily.
Ev Williams has figured out the internet.
That’s what he told the gathered tech heads at the recent XOXO conference in Portland, Oregon, and while he may have said this with tongue partly in cheek, he spent the next 30 minutes unloading his unified theory of the global computer network, an interpretation formed after 20 years of hard thinking — to say nothing of his experience creating seminal internet companies Blogger and Twitter.
In his speech, Williams explained what the internet is, how it works, and how to get rich from it. Truth be told, Williams is not the best public speaker, but his message was clear: At a time when so many internet entrepreneurs are running around Silicon Valley trying to do something no one else has ever done, Williams believes that the real trick is to find something that’s tried and true — and to do it better. It’s a speech that should serve as a signpost, a bit of much-needed direction for the Valley’s younger generation.
The bottom line, Williams said, is that the internet is “a giant machine designed to give people what they want.” It’s not a utopia. It’s not magical. It’s simply an engine of convenience. Those who can tune that engine well — who solve basic human problems with greater speed and simplicity than those who came before — will profit immensely. Those who lose sight of basic human needs — who want to give people the next great idea — will have problems.
‘We often think of the internet enables you to do new things. But people just want to do the same things they’ve always done’
— Ev Williams
In 1994, Williams was a Nebraska college dropout selling tutorial videos to help people get onto the net. In those videos, he described the global computer network as “a puzzle comprised of three things: Computers, information, and people.” But he no longer sees it that way.
After leaving Twitter in 2011 and helping to incubate, among other things, the blog network Medium, Williams found himself rethinking his original formulation. Computers have proliferated and diversified, in size and function, to the point of being unremarkable. Information has become similarly abundant, rendering the term unsatisfyingly generic. And after 20 years, the types of people and groups you find online are basically identical to the people and groups you find in the physical world. What’s now important are the connections between the people and the machines.
“There are hardware connections, then there are all these interactions involved with data and software,” Williams says. “And if you look at any big internet thing, you see it’s basically a big hive of connections. A Follow is a connection. A Like is a connection.
“What the internet is doing now is connecting everyone and everything, every event and every thought, in multiple ways — layer upon layer of connection. Increasingly, everything that happens and everything we do, everyplace you go and check in, every thought you have and share, and every person who liked that thought… is all connected…and it keeps multiplying relentlessly.”
These connections aren’t just proliferating, he said. They’re proliferating in a particular direction. There’s an organizing principle that explains what thrives on the internet and could potentially predict what will thrive in the future: Convenience.
“The internet makes human desires more easily attainable. In other words, it offers convenience,” he said. “Convenience on the internet is basically achieved by two things: speed, and cognitive ease.” In other words, people don’t want to wait, and they don’t want to think — and the internet should respond to that. “If you study what the really big things on the internet are, you realize they are masters at making things fast and not making people think.”
Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple were all excellent at delivering this sort of convenience, Williams said. They often got there by removing steps from what had once been a more complex series of actions, precisely the trick that allowed Williams’ first big invention, Blogger, to dominate how people put new content on the web. Instead of creating a new document, saving it, manually uploading it, and viewing it in a web browser, people could simply type their content into a web form and click “publish.”
‘The internet is not what I thought it was 20 years ago. It’s not a utopian world. It’s essentially like a lot of other major technological revolutions that have taken place in the history of the world’
— Ev Williams
The key to making a fortune online, Williams told the XOXO crowd, is to remove extra steps from common activities as he did with Blogger.
“Here’s the formula if you want to build a billion-dollar internet company,” he said. “Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time…Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.”
His recent example is Uber. “How old is the desire of getting from here to there?” he said. “How hard was it really to do? They took out some steps in that process…They formed a connection between you and the driver.”
Williams’ philosophy might seem pedestrian. But that’s the point. Twenty years after people began using the web en masse, it’s time, Williams said, to accept that the internet isn’t a magical universe with boundless potential. It’s just another engine for improving quality of life.
“The internet is not what I thought it was 20 years ago,” Williams said. “It’s not a utopian world. It’s essentially like a lot of other major technological revolutions that have taken place in the history of the world.” He compares it to, well, agriculture. “[Agriculture] made life better. It not only got people fed, it freed them up to do many more things — to create art and invent things.”
The rub is that we often take convenience too far. “Look at the technology of agriculture taken to an extreme — where we have industrialized farms that are not good for the environment or animals or nourishment,” he says. “Look at a country full of people who have had such convenient access to calories that they’re addicted, obese, and sick.” He likens this agricultural nightmare to our unhealthy obsession with internet numbers like retweets and likes and followers and friends.
That warning wasn’t so much a slam on Twitter, which Williams helped create, as it was an observation about human nature. People will be people. The internet wants to give them exactly what they’re looking for. And people who understand how to channel that tendency will be disproportionately powerful.
Good Luck…
We are insane to focus on the urgent at the expense of the Important.
And we are insane to use the same thinking and methods and expect wildly different results.
Have you been doing pretty much the same things over and over?Does it feel compulsive and unsatisfying?
Then Stop…
Get out of your office.Leave your store.Step away from the factory.Turn off your computer.Heaven forbid,power off your cell phone.And open your child-like eyes to the reality of the world.
Watch and really wonder .Question and fully explore.Your mind will come alive and it will melt the self-Imposed fat of prejudice and routine.
Your unconscious will become conscious.
And you will become sane again.
Good Luck and have fun…
Desire not only focuses our attention on whats attractive, what has potential to make us feel good-but also on information that supports those feelings.
If we desire something,we will be attentive to the evidence that supports it and inattentive to conflicting evidence.And we update our beliefs based on that biased data.
Aspiring writers,athletes,actors and musicians ignore the mountain of data that point to frustration in their pursuits of fame and fortune.Instead,they persist by focusing on spoonful of evidence -recognition,signs of progress and emotionally charged here stories -which support their beliefs.
The same is true of entrepreneurs and other risk takers.Desire fuels belief,especially in their ability to control their destiny,and through thoughtful and determined action(and luck) many achieve what they put their minds to.
Belief,then,is a somewhat naive,self fulfilling prophecy.Desire drives belief,which motivates people to seek out information and act in a certain ways that help them attain those desires.
Reinvent your Desire today…Belief again and more…fulfill your prophesy…
Good luck…
We hunger for direction and Inspiration.We want whats important to us to get better- our bodies,work,home and relationships.
We want to imagine ourselves transforming our lives,and the lives of others.
We want to feel good about our evolving narratives.Its why we read books,scan the internet,and flip through magazines.We are looking for before and after stories.We want to feel the pull of possibility,of moving beyond our existing reality.
Konrad denauer observed,”we live under the same sky,but we don’t all have the same horizon.”
To discover someone else’s motivation,and bring it to life in a proactive way,is surprisingly difficult.Yet despite the fact that its widely misunderstood,the essence of influencing others is simple.
People are drawn across the bridge of belief by their anticipation of a better experience and a better life.Effective leaders ignite peoples imaginations by painting vivid,compelling,and personally relevant pictures -ones that move them.As Johns Quincy Adams made clear,”If your actions inspire others to dream more,do more and become more,you are a leader.”
An NDA has to be properly prepared and used.
Confidential information – trade secrets, know-how and other proprietary information – can be the most valuable intellectual property a business owns. Whether it’s a special formula, customer list, source code or system, confidential information has great value.
With all confidential information, once it’s disclosed without restriction, it’s gone. The information is free for the recipient to use. So, proper protection of this valuable resource is critical.
The first thing to know about NDAs is when not to use them.
Think blind date. If you were to go on a blind date and started talking about marriage and how many kids you wanted, your date would probably run for the hills.
The same applies to NDAs. Never enter an NDA or disclose confidential information when you’re just talking about a possible relationship. It’s rare that the other side needs to know the particulars about your technology in order to initiate discussions.
The first discussion should always be one relating to business arrangements, rather than in depth disclosures about the technology.
Why? Because once confidential information is disclosed it’s out there. You can’t “undisclose” it. While an NDA can be enforced, enforcement is costly and time consuming. And how much damage will be done before a court gets around to your case?
There’s no reason to disclose confidential information too early.
Next, when its time for an NDA, it should be tailored to the particular discussions that will take place. Many times I’ve looked at NDAs for clients and found definitions of Confidential Information include everything the parties discuss. Confidential information should be defined around the particular technology and discussion purposes.
This means that, when one party is disclosing their technology and the other party is evaluating the technology, there’s no need for a mutual NDA. With a mutual NDA and a broad definition of confidential information, you might not be able to utilize improvements suggested by the other side.
But, more importantly, if the suggestion was already in the works as an improvement to your technology, you open your company up to a lawsuit. The other party could claim you breached the ‘mutual’ NDA by using their suggestion even if you didn’t.
Perhaps the most egregious mistake when it comes to non-disclosure agreements is agreeing to a time limit on the obligation to maintain confidentiality. I’ve seen agreements where that limit was as short as two or three years.
In fact, the agreement should require that information be maintained as confidential as long as it is secret and proprietary.
Consider some very important confidential information, the secret formula for Coca Cola. That’s been a secret for well over 100 years. Could you imagine if the founder of Coke had agreed to a three-year limit on a confidentiality obligation?
You probably don’t know the shelf life of your confidential information. So be sure not to limit it arbitrarily.
When you have valuable confidential information in your business, a non-disclosure agreement is one of the most important contracts you’ll enter. Be sure to know how to limit your risks and maximize your protection with the right NDA.
Give me a call if you have any questions about your NDA.
