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- A Quick Way to De-stress. Whenever you feel frenzied, meditation can help you focus inward, pull together your scattered energies, and allow your mind to become calm.
- Don’t Beat Yourself Up Over Your Mistakes. Don’t agonize about what other people are thinking about you. They’re perhaps busy worrying over what you’re thinking about them.
- Better than Brainstorming for Rapid Idea Generation. Studies have shown that people think of more new—and practical—ideas on their own than they do in a group.
- Don’t Let Small Decisions Destroy Your Productivity. Good routines can protect you from your more effective negative impulses and bring order and predictability to your life.
- Never Outsource a Key Capability. By owning the entire customer experience, Domino Pizza has provided a consistent experience for customers and iterate quickly.
- When You Talk About Too Many Goals. When it comes to persuasion, clarity and conciseness are critical.
- Best to Cut Your Losses Early. Best to cut your losses early—you’ll have the least sunk costs and the fewest emotional attachments.
- What Went Wrong on the Boeing 737 MAX. When you devise a highly reliable system, identify all single points of failure, and investigate how risks and failure modes can be mitigated.
- How Much Risk Can You Tolerate? Encourage careful experimentation and conscientious risk-taking by lowering the risk waterline.
- The Power of Negative Thinking. The Stoic practice of premeditatio malorum helps intentionally visualize the worst-case scenario in your mind’s eye and tame your anxiety.
And here are some articles of yesteryear that continue to be popular:
- Better be approximately right than precisely wrong
- Why good deeds make people act bad
- Fight ignorance, not each other
- Care less for what other people think
- Be a survivor, not a victim
- Expressive writing can help you heal
- One question to ask every morning & find your focus
- How smart companies get smarter
- How to manage smart, powerful leaders
- Accidents can happen when you least
We wish you all a healthy and prosperous 2021!