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Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work
- The intent of automation should not be eliminating jobs, but achieving the optimum synergy of humans and automation.
- Return on Invested Performance is a critical metric for getting the best bang for your buck when choosing systems to automate
- Repetitiveness, human interaction, and cognitive load impact if automation is worthwhile
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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz)
- Sprints help you fast forward to the future and see customers react sooner
- The longer you wait, it becomes increasingly harder to change products
- Your product is never “ready” - but a sprint-mindset helps you make time-based releases (instead of feature-based).
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- To get into the habit zone, your product needs to be used frequently and provide great utility
- The time or money investment users make in services greatly impacts how hooked they are
- Changing someone’s motivation is challenging - scarcity and a sense of progress make a big difference
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The Proximity Principle: The Proven Strategy that Will Lead to the Career You Love (Ken Coleman)
- Being intentional about who you surround yourself with is the key to a fulfilling future
- Every career stepping stone matters. It could become a long-term career cornerstone
- You don’t summit Mt. Everest all at once - success is a step-by-step process
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Gorilla Mindset: How to Dominate and Unleash the Animal Inside You (Mike Cernovich)
- To get more out of life, you must get more out of yourself.
- He who controls how something is framed controls the debate.
- Quick mental checklists can be powerful tools for focusing your attention
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The Simplicity Cycle: The Field Guide to Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse (Dan Ward)
- We tend to be drawn towards complexity, when deep down we yearn for simplicity
- Simplicity is a combination of complexity (features) and “goodness” (functionality)
- True productivity is maximizing the value of existing features
Andrew Smith: Founder of ProRustics Home & Furnishings
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Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service (Ken Blanchard)
- Satisfied customers aren’t enough. To thrive your business needs raving fans.
- Customers count on your consistency. After you disappoint them once it’s difficult to rebuild trust.
- Focus on improving just 1%. Tackle less of the problem, but be consistent with that “less”.
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Nassim Taleb)
- Antifragile systems improve in the face of chaos
- Efficient systems are at peak capacity and on the verge of collapse
- The barbell strategy (maximizing opposite extremes and avoiding the middle) helps you build an antifragile life
Guest: Mary Miller, Nuclear Engineer and Motivation Minute Listener
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Extreme Ownership: How US Navy Seals Lead and Win (Jocko Willink and Leif Babin)
- Extreme Ownership is taking full responsibility for yourself.
- Learn to lead both down and up the chain. If you’re boss doesn’t get it, blame yourself first.
- The hardest part of taking responsibility is the hit to your ego. But this pulls your team together.
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The Greatest Salesman in the World (Og Mandino)
- True wealth is of the heart, not the purse
- Approach each day, each situation, and each person with genuine love in your heart
- Learn to see obstacles as just detours. Persisting is the key to success.
Guest: Japheth Mast, Founder of Japheth Mast Photo
Website: JaphethMastPhoto.com
Blog: JaphethMast.com
Instagram: @japhethmast
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Roger Fisher and William Ury)
- Never cave to pressure. Stick to your standards and persist to find a win-win.
- Having a solid BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) makes you a stronger negotiator
- Become an empathetic negotiator by listening more and putting yourself in other people’s shoes
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The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli)
- To understand the people, one needs to be a prince - to understand princes, one needs to be of the people
- Success isn’t a formula. Adapt your strategy based on the situation around you
- Listen to people who know what they’re talking about, who genuinely want to help you
Guest: Niels van den Kieboom, International Business Student
Website: BroGecko.com
Instagram: @brogeckoshop
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Change Our Lives (Tim Harford)
- The random nature of messiness can lead to our greatest inspiration
- Improvisation is the ultimate intersection of structure and spontaneity
- Adding strategic elements of risk surprisingly can boost safety
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Friend of a Friend: Understanding the Hidden Networks that can Change Your Life and Career (David Burkus)
- Don’t fixate on building a network. Instead, learn to better navigate and leverage your current network
- Who you know and your conversations with them dramatically impact how you think
- Weak ties (friends you don’t talk with as often) have more opportunities and enlarge your perspective more than strong ties.We’d love to hear your book ideas in our survey at MotivationMinute.com
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Think And Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill)
- Being intentional about how you think is a critical key to success
- Harness the power of autosuggestion to make your goal part of who you are
- Envision yourself with the money (or desired thing) ahead of time, especially the emotions and experience you will have with it
Guest: David Troyer
Instagram: @davidalantroyer
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- Break every project down into bite-sized “next-moves”, and treat them as monkeys
- Don’t take on a problem that isn’t yours. That monkey doesn’t belong to you!
- Always ensure monkeys has a clear owner, next move, and follow-up time
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The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up To Win (Jeff Haden)
- Genuinely savor every small win, every day
- Motivation is an active choice where you step out first. It’s not passive.
- Success comes from the process. Not momentary achievements.
Shout-out to Lou David for recommending this week’s book. You can send us your ideas too at our survey on MotivationMinute.com
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Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending
- How, where, and why you spend are more critical than how much
- Buying experiences is far more fulfilling long-term than physical things
- “Name your money” based on your values for guilt-free spending
Guest: Graham Ewing, Financial Planner
- LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2CbOdZl
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Way of the Wolf: Straight Line Selling: Master the Art of Persuasion, Influence, and Success
- Selling is everything in life. You’re either selling or you’re failing.
- Connecting with a buyer’s pain can be one of the most effective sales tools
- Building trust in you, your product, and your company is essential to winning customers
Guest: David Foote, Bodybuilder
- Instagram: @davidfoote_fitness
- YouTube: David Foote
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
- You don’t need a great idea to start a company. Establishing a core vision is far more critical
- Be intentional about pushing for “BHAG” - Big Hairy Audacious Goals
- Ongoing refinement of your idea is key, just like pruning to shape a tree
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