WOWOW: The Con Artists Edition [Links of the Week]
Self-promotion, incubating projects, faster, better and easier; the ballsiest cons, and the worst one.
Building relationships: 11 rules for self-promotion --
Be confident: If you are telling people something that adds value to their lives, there’s no reason to feel as if you're intruding. Stand up tall and show that you have faith in yourself, your abilities, and your work. After all, if you don’t have confidence in yourself, why should anyone else?
How to grow your ideas with a project incubator --
The concept of a having an idea "incubator" is the same as the real ones used in 3rd grade classrooms. A place where you can toss your ideas, give 'em some heat for a few months and let them grow. Here's how to set up a project incubator, with all the steps needed to make sure your ideas eventually hatch.
In other words: Capture, prune, and review.
50 tricks to get things done faster, better, and more easily --
A collection of 50 hacks, tips, tricks, and mnemonic devices.
The 5 ballsiest con artists of all time --
Let's give the devils their due. Yeah, they've screwed over thousands of innocent people. But some of them had balls the size of hot air balloons and for that, we must salute them.
In the context of promoting chutzpah, it could be inferred that I encourage con artists and their hacks. I don't. Although, the lessons you learn from being conned are priceless. Then again, most people con themselves, this is by far the worst con.
You can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent.
Happy weekend and good luck finding an opponent.Labels: chutzpah, confidence+trick, decisions, excellence, insanity, lifehacks, lifestyle, marketing, personal+development, productivity, project+management, revolver, self-promotion, success, vanity
The Key to Successful Collaborations
Combining your excellence with mine. The less overlap the better, though a minimum is helpful to facilitate communication.
Perfect collaborations consist of projects where each partner's excellence is required to finish the whole thing.
The outcome has to be a priority for each party involved. Have one give less than his or her best and you undermine the success of the whole project.
Your excellence is in mine and in your interest, as well as my excellence is in yours and mine alike.
So we need two ingredients, our best and a matching project that requires a combination of exactly those bests.
Delegation × Excellence
Are you the very best for the job? If yes, complete it. If no, find the best and delegate -- in fact, even if you do not find the best for the job right away, it is probably wise to delegate anyway.
So, is it a goal for everyone to do what they're best at?
Furthermore, is it a goal to deal with only the best ones in each respective field?
Imagine to have each and everyone only doing their best and interacting in exactly this one fashion.
What do you do best?
Labels: business, collaborations, delegation, excellence, lifehacks, lifestyle, marketing, project+management, success

