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    2021-06-30 Oh, the productivity

    Could more words help your presentations? (video)

    Slides often seem to collect undigested information. Could sentence headers help? Sentences require verbs, which force us to say something

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    2021-05-31 Oh, the productivity

    How writing straightens out your decision frame (video)

    It seems that writing our rationale for a decision helps us make that decision objectively. What evidence is there for

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    2021-05-17 Oh, the productivity

    How does the framing effect warp our business decisions? (video)

    The way that options are presented shapes the choice we make. Even insurance professionals take more or less risk depending on the way a situation is framed. Is there a way to make more grounded decisions?

    2020-12-29 Effective writing tells a story / Oh, the productivity

    For insights at work, hold your nerve and pay attention (post moved)

    By paying more attention to important signals, we can understand them better, and glimpse their unsaid meanings too. But we’ll have to slow down – to hold our nerve like a value investor, or patiently wait as if with a passive index.

    2020-08-03 Oh, the productivity

    Take notes as online help for your creative future self

    What do you do with your new ideas? The connections and sparks that pop to mind when you’re in the shower; in a presentation; on a bus.

    2017-08-27 Oh, the productivity

    How to get (at least some) work done

    When I need to get a particular piece of writing or other work done, and I’m putting it off because it’s difficult (or I’m making it difficult), I’ve found that this simple process helps a lot.

    I'm posting now at Do The Words, on how writing helps you think, listen, and lead.
    Not posting here any more but keeping the site up, as a few of the posts are still popular and hopefully useful.
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