Category: Management
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Mind Readings: Best Practices Are Real
In today’s episode, you’ll learn why the “best practice is no best practice” mindset could be hurting your performance. You’ll understand the value of proven methods and recipes for success, even as you customize them for your needs. You’ll benefit from the insights needed to tell the difference between true innovation and empty criticism. Get…
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Mind Readings: AI Ethics Inside Language Models
In today’s episode, we delve deep into the realm of AI ethics, focusing specifically on the ethical dimensions embedded within AI models themselves. You’ll learn about the three critical levels of language models and how each level impacts the model’s ethical considerations. The discussion covers the three pillars of AI ethics – helpful, truthful, and…
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Mind Readings: Preventing Dunning Kruger Effect
The Dunning Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people who have relatively low ability or expertise in a particular domain tend to overestimate their knowledge or ability. This can lead to disastrous consequences if left unchecked. One way to reduce the likelihood of this happening is to use the specificity test: when faced with…
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Mind Readings: The Opposite of Quiet Quitting is Ambition
In this piece, let’s talk about quiet quitting and its opposite, ambition. What is quiet quitting? What is ambition? Quiet quitting is a trend that is described as people doing only the minimum required in their jobs. It is about setting boundaries and saying that an employer does not have the right to demand extra…
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You Ask, I Answer: Content Marketing Management Mistakes?
Ann asks, “Name one or two mistakes people make while managing a content marketing team?” Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: Download the MP3 audio here. Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for watching the video.…
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How to Find Your Marketing KPIs
One of the most frequent questions I receive on a regular basis is, "How do we determine what our marketing KPIs are?" Marketing KPIs, or key performance indicators, are those numbers, those metrics that will make or break your marketing. Here’s an easy way to determine what your marketing KPIs are. What metrics determine whether…
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You Ask, I Answer: Merging Liberal Arts with Computer Science?
Mbeiza asks, “Merging Liberal arts with science helps make what one has to offer unique. How can I merge the liberal arts with what I want to do in order to have a unique skill or product to offer?” Fundamentally, a successful marketer has to be both qualitative and quantitative – the ability to be…
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You Ask, I Answer: Small Business Recovery Advice?
Michelle asks, “If you could give one piece of advice to small businesses as they prepare for the recovery, what would it be?” This is more of an economics question than a marketing one. In the Great Recession, the single most important thing for any business was cash flow. Positive cash flow meant you stayed…
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You Ask, I Answer: Scheduling Availability When Working From Home?
Sarah asks, “QUESTION: WITH SO MANY OF US WORKING FROM HOME RIGHT NOW, HOW DO YOU COMMUNICATE AVAILABILITY TO YOUR CLIENTS AND SET EXPECTATIONS ON RESPONSE TIME?” Use great calendaring software that offers allocated blocks of time. You set your working hours first, then set up what size windows you want to offer. Your calendaring…
