Very few leaders and professionals have a deliberate plan for self-promotion. I define self-promotion, or personal marketing, as a specific set of activities that enable ideal clients to find you and recognize the value you create. If you excel in marketing […]
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How do you make better team decisions when you have limited information? These four distinctions will help: We are paid for our judgment, which is about the quality and speed of decision-making. Let’s raise the bar in this field.
How do you deal with information overload? I used to apply a simple filter: Information is only useful when it’s relevant to goals, inspiring, or entertaining. Everything else is just noise and should be ignored. Lately, I have realized that this approach no longer […]
As a young doctor in Vienna, Ignaz Semmelweis observed that the habit of washing hands by medical staff significantly decreased the mortality rate of women giving birth in the Vienna hospital. Since bacteria would not be discovered by Louis Pasteur […]
How do you create a culture of innovation? One essential part is allowing and expecting your team members to make small mistakes while striving to achieve big, ambitious goals. If mistakes are punished, you will create a culture of […]
Last week I gave a keynote at the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) conference in Paris. My message was to apply the Michelangelo Principle to drive innovation: Subtraction is superior to addition. I spent two full days at the […]
What did you try last week that made you uncomfortable? If you want to build muscle, you need to push it beyond the breaking point—the point where the muscle gets slightly damaged. Once the body has had time to repair […]
At which level does your team solve problems? The first level is content focus. Content focus means changing a thing. For example: When structural problems keep occurring, we move to the second level, which is process focus. It means changing a system […]
In economics, there is a fascinating concept known as the Laffer Curve. It illustrates the relationship between the total tax revenue of a government and the tax rate. The extremes of the curve demonstrate that at a 0% tax rate, tax […]
What’s your Super Talent? super talent is a skill in which you have achieved complete mastery. Examples include project management, problem solving, or language learning. We are so proficient with our super talents that using them comes naturally to us. […]
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