The golden rules of giving great feedback
Your ability to give good feedback can help make or break a project. If you follow these simple rules your projects will go quicker, run smoother and turn out better. Listen carefully, and ask questions. The first step to providing good feedback is understanding the rationale behind the decisions that were made. “I don’t like [...]
The Right Questions
If you’re able to get the attention of a potential customer, it’s important to make sure their attention isn’t wasted. You have to make the most of that initial conversation (whether that dialogue takes place over the web, through an ad or on a call). It’s the natural instinct of a consumer to be a [...]
The Star Wars Surprise
I had a chance to have dinner with my dad last night. We’re both nerdy film fans so the conversation naturally turned towards the new Star Trek film and, of course, Star Wars. (Mainly because Star Wars is better.) In 1977 My dad went to go see Star Wars. Actually, what he went to see [...]
In The Company of Samurai and Poets
Creativity and discipline are not mutually exclusive. In fact, many artists have promoted discipline as the basis for mastery and as the route which eventually leads to the highest forms of creativity. But discipline takes different forms. In feudal Japan the bushi class, or samurai, began training in the way of the sword and bow [...]