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You are not designing a product or a service. You are designing an experience.

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"Your company's chance of creating new wealth is directly proportional to the number of ideas it fosters and the number of experiments it starts" Gary Hamel

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Lemon #48. Demoting a loyal friend (2nd part)

Not to take the sting out of it, but be honest, clear and effective. Your friend may not appreciate it now, but will appreciate it over time.

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Lemon #47. Demoting a loyal friend (1st part)

Ironically, the key to an emotional discussion is to take the emotion out of it. You must be very clear in your mind about what you’ve decided.

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Lemon #46. Preparing to fire an executive (3rd part)

After you have informed the executive, you must quickly update the company and your staff on the change.

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Lemon #45. Preparing to fire an executive (2nd part)

Step 2: Informing the board
Step 3: Preparing for the conversation

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Lemon #44. Preparing to fire an executive (1st part)

Step 1: Root cause analysis
Figuring out why you hired the wrong person for your company.

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Lemon #43. The right way to lay people off

1. Get your head right
2. Don’t delay
3. Be clear in your mind
4. Train your managers
5. Address the entire company
6. Be visible, be present

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Lemon #42. CEOs should tell it like it is (2nd part)

Three reasons why being honest about company’s problems makes sense:
1) Trust
2) More brains working on the hard problems, better
3) Bad news travels fast; good slow

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Lemon #41. CEOs should tell it like it is (1st part)

My single biggest personal improvement as CEO occurred on the day when I stopped being too positive.

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Lemon #40. The struggle

As your dreams turn into nightmares...the Struggle:

- The Struggle is when you wonder why you started the company in the first place.
- The Struggle is when you don’t believe you should be CEO of your company.

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Lemon #39. You’re not alone

Colin Powell says that leadership is the ability to get someone to follow you even if only out of curiosity. True fact.

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Lemon #38. A good way for B2B cold emails (I)

AIDA: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action

Attracting the attention of your client, interested in what you’re saying, to desire what you sell and go to action.

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Lemon #37. Address the elephant in the room

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Lemon #36. Get personal

Personalization is the key to sales in the coming years.

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Lemon #35. Keep it Short and Sweet

A study by Boomerang, an email plugin for Gmail, emails between 50 and 100 words are most likely to get a response.

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Lemon #34. The Law of Averages

Let’s ask ourselves: What are the chances, according to the law of averages, that this event I am worrying about will ever occur?

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Lemon #33. How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind

It is impossible for any human mind, no matter how brilliant, to think of more than one thing at any given time.

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Lemon #32. How to analyse and solve worry problems

Take these four steps:

- Writing what I am worrying about.

- Writing what I can do about it.

- Deciding what to do.

- Carry out that decision.

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Lemon #31. A magic formula for solving worry situations

When you get worried, remember that worry won’t get you anywhere. I figured out a way to handle my problem without worrying.

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