August 2020
Beginner
256 pages
4h 17m
English
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TIME TO PLAY
Choose one of these to action this week.
- Launch an #AMA. Put a daily (or weekly) block in your calendar and invite your colleagues to join you for an ‘Ask Me Anything’ session. Tell them you’re available to answer any questions they have within whatever parameters you determine. It could be about your career or the future of the company. You could be asked for advice or asked just to listen. It could be about technical knowledge or philosophical ideas. But you’re open and ready to give presence, expertise and experience in service of your team.
- A random act of creativity. Do something surprising, thoughtful and generous for someone on your team. Or your whole team. Bonus points for doing it for a customer or a stranger. Give them an idea, an experience or a moment that changes the way they see and feel about the world. Just like the tube driver in London (or Bruce Whalley in Melbourne).
- Give away your best ideas. James Altucher, the author and investor, thinks up then shares 10 new ideas every day. He doesn’t have the time to do them all, but he thinks someone in the world might. So rather than letting them go to waste on a hard drive, he shares them without asking for credit or compensation.
- Make a connection. Connect two people in a creative way that you believe will add value to each other. Be sure to set each person up for success by being thoughtful in the way you introduce them/describe them. Bonus points for connecting people that cut you out of the ...
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