Monthly Archives: November 2023

Stick to the basics and keep it simple..👇

Do your Job..

Sweat the details..

Put the team first..

Be attentive..

Ignore the white noise..

Speak for yourself..

The courage to start..

The discipline to focus..

The confidence to figure it out..

The patience to know progress is not always visible..

The persistence to keep going, even on the bad days..

That’s the formula peeps.👊

If someone looked at how you spent your time over the last year, would what they see as your priorities match what you see as your priorities? 👀

Guilty as charged your honour!🙅‍♂️

Focus on what matters..

“Don’t face complex issues head-on; first understand simple ideas deeply.

Clear the clutter and expose what is important.

Be brutally honest about what you know and don’t know.

Then see what’s missing, identify the gaps, and fill them in.

Let go of bias, prejudice, and preconceived notions.

There are degrees to understanding (it’s not just a yes-or-no proposition) and you can always heighten yours.

Rock-solid understanding is the foundation for success.”

This ultimate cheat sheet shows 16 cognitive biases.

Here’s the advantage you get by knowing them:

1) Anchoring Bias: Make more rational buying decisions.

2) Authority Bias: Question authority; think for yourself.

3) Availability Heuristic: Base decisions on facts.

4) Bandwagon Effect: Choose by values, not popularity.

5) Confirmation Bias: Consider all views; judge fairly.

6) Dunning-Kruger Effect: Enhance self-awareness.

7) Endowment Effect: Know the true value of things.

8) False Consensus Effect: Communicate better.

9) Halo Effect: Evaluate people and things objectively.

10) Illusory Correlation: Use evidence, not superstition.

11) Negativity Bias: Focus on growth, not setbacks.

12) Outcome Bias: Make process-driven decisions.

13) Recency Effect: Use all info, not just the latest.

14) Self-Serving Bias: Enhance accountability & growth.

15) Spotlight Effect: Reduce anxiety; build confidence.

16) Sunk Cost Fallacy: Focus on the future, not past.

Understanding these biases will help you become the master of your destiny.

Tesla’s combination retro-style diner and electric car charging station is under construction in Hollywood. 👀

Tesla is rapidly constructing a planned 1950s-style diner and drive-in movie theatre in Hollywood that will also be a supercharger station with 32 charging stalls.

If the country’s dominant electric vehicle (EV) maker plans to use its first public restaurant as a national blueprint, it could augur the start of a chain of charge-and-dine stations, which would be a new retail category.

Several existing food chains have announced plans to install EV chargers for customers to use while they chow down.

Nearly six years after Elon Musk teased on what was then Twitter that he was “Going to put an old school drive-in, roller skates & rock restaurant at one of the new Tesla Supercharger locations in LA,” construction is finally underway.

“The plan is for a two-story restaurant structure, surrounded by 32 charging stalls, with two movie screens and a rooftop bar,”. “At ground level, carhop-style waitstaff may bring meals to folks who have ordered ahead from their cars.”

There will also be “two movie theatre screens where clips of famous movies will be shown,” reports Teslarati, a news site dedicated to the automaker.

“While it’s a lofty goal, this project is one of Tesla’s most anticipated, and with the automaker opening its Superchargers to other car companies in the spring, charging locations are one of the most heavily sought-after parts of the EV ownership experience,” Teslarati said.

As the restaurant takes shape, it will be interesting to find out its name and whether Tesla plans to propagate the concept.

You wouldn’t bet against them rolling the concept out in key states and even internationally.

*Rendering of a diner with charging stations that Tesla is constructing in Hollywood. Image: Courtesy of Tesla

There is nothing that gets in the way of success more than avoidance.

We avoid hard conversations. We avoid certain people. We avoid hard decisions. We avoid evidence that contradicts what we think. We avoid starting a project until we’re certain of the outcome. To justify our avoidance, we lie to ourselves.

We tell ourselves that we’re noble — we don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings. We tell ourselves we don’t want to offend others. We tell ourselves that things will get better. We tell ourselves that things will get easier. We tell ourselves that we can avoid the real issue without any impact. We tell ourselves we’ll start when the time is right.

Sometimes we muster up half the courage. We have half the conversation we wanted to have. We do half the hard thing. We acknowledge the evidence but convince ourselves this time is different. We see the person we’re avoiding but don’t really talk to them. We start but don’t commit to the project.

And here’s the interesting thing. Half-efforts tend to make things worse, not better. When things don’t get better, it only reinforces that we shouldn’t have said anything in the first place. Avoiding isn’t better, it’s just easier.

Not only does avoiding today make the future harder, but it also almost always makes the present harder. Avoiding puts you on a hair-trigger, anything will set you off. We all do this. Who hasn’t entirely avoided a hard conversation with their partner about something only to find themselves in an insignificant argument over something trivial? Of course, the petty fight isn’t about the trivial thing, it’s about avoidance of the hard thing.

Everything becomes harder until we stop avoiding what’s getting in the way. The longer you wait the higher the cost.

ChatGPT is getting pretty good at writing phishing emails, according to new IBM research.

Why it matters: Cybersecurity experts have long warned that hackers could weaponise ChatGPT and similar AI tools to scam unsuspecting targets.

Driving the news: IBM researchers recently ran an experiment among an unspecified global health care company’s roughly 1,600 employees.

Half of the employees got a phishing email written by IBM cybersecurity experts. The other half got one made using ChatGPT.

By the numbers: 14% of employees who received the human-written phishing email fell for it and clicked on a malicious link.

But the ChatGPT-written email was pretty close, with an 11% click rate.

It only took five minutes for Stephanie Carruthers — IBM’s chief people and experiment leader — and her team to create the ChatGPT email.

Her team usually needs about 16 hours of research and prep time to write a believable phishing email.

Be careful what you respond to people 👀

Emerging menopause benefits…

Menopause support may become a more common workplace benefit as impacted women become a larger part of the labour force.

According to an August survey of HR policies by insurance firm NFP only 4% of respondents that offer sick leave currently offer some kind of aid for menopause, such as access to hormone therapy and counselling.

Meanwhile, 32% say they had not considered it but would be open to offering support within the next five years.

Microsoft, the NBA, Abercrombie & Fitch, Palantir and Standard Chartered bank are among those currently providing educational or financial assistance for managing menopause, according to Bloomberg.

“These are … your most seasoned leaders,” who are costly to replace, Maria M Trapenasso, national human resources consulting practice lead, told Bloomberg.

Employers are also stepping up to support specific bereavement needs, such as additional time off to grieve after miscarriages or IVF attempts, according to NFP.

Long overdue focus on a key subject matter that has long been hidden in plain sight.👍

Starbucks unveils “triple shot” plan 👀

Starbucks plans to expand its global footprint with thousands of new stores in the coming years.

The global coffee giant recently unveiled its long-term growth strategy, “Triple Shot Reinvention with Two Pumps.”

It plans to open 17,000 stores, bringing its global count to 55,000 by 2030.

It also expects to double teams’ income compared to 2020 through higher wages and expanded hours.

Starbucks also announced tech collaborations with Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple to “enhance the customer and partner experience.”

It’s working with Microsoft to use AI for “product development and personalisation,” with Amazon on “reimagining the customer in-store experience” and with Apple on an array of new technologies.