Effectiveness
Don’t Try to Please Everyone
Conventional thinking: In order to be successful I must please my customers, my employees, my investors, my colleagues, my boss, etc. I must make sure the requirements of all my stakeholders are fully met.
Contrarian thinking: If you try to please everyone you will be very ineffective and will end up not completely satisfying the needs […]
Popularity: 39% [?]
11Feb2008 | goldfish | 2 comments | Continued
Change Your Mind
Conventional thinking: I must stick to my convictions even if someone makes a convincing argument that I am wrong. If I give in I will show weakness and people will not respect me.
Contrarian thinking: You have the right to change your mind. Showing that you are willing to listen to others and admitting that you […]
Popularity: 36% [?]
5Feb2008 | goldfish | 1 comment | Continued
Don’t Complete Those Tasks
Conventional thinking: When I start a task I must continue working on it until it is completed, otherwise I am not being thorough. I must commit to finish everything that I start.
Contrarian thinking: If you start working on a task and find out that it is not worth completing it, just stop. Don’t work on […]
Popularity: 39% [?]
1Feb2008 | goldfish | 0 comments | Continued
Big Bang Theory: Small Changes Do Not Work
Conventional thinking: Choose small reasonable goals, take small steps and make changes slowly.
Contrarian thinking: Make big changes at once in one big bang approach.
Dr. David Hyman, M.D., chief of general internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston coauthored a study that showed that changing everything at once in a big bang approach is […]
Popularity: 49% [?]
25Jan2008 | goldfish | 0 comments | Continued
Multitasking – The Worst Productivity Killer
Common Sense: If I do a lot of things in parallel I can get a lot more done in a day. While talking on the phone, I can answer email, do text messaging, and even work on that important presentation at the same time, right? Not if you are a contrarian goldfish!
Contrarian thought: Dividing your […]
Popularity: 64% [?]
1Jan2008 | goldfish | 1 comment | Continued
I agree with you Sceptic
this is a useful discussion
good blog! 
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