Motivation Minute – Details, episodes & analysis

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

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).

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

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.

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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

- 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.

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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