If I were Uganda’s disgraced former Speaker, Anita Among, I would leave my remaining Mercedes-Benz gathering dust in the garage and roll up to Parliament in a humble Toyota Probox. The sheer spectacle would spark pandemonium, set every tongue wagging, and dominate conversations for yet another two weeks.
Be weary of who you call your friends. In one of Seneca’s letters to his good friend Lucilius, he writes about friendship and why it’s important to keep a quality circle of friends.
Many of the so called friends we have are what they call, fair weather friends. They are only around in the good times.
I implore many of you to study history, There is a lot to learn. One notable example is that of Julius Ceaser whose fate was an act by ‘friends’.
Enjoy this excerpt from the book Letters from a Stoic by Seneca.
A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views.
He died 5 months after recording it.
It was his final gift to the world.
Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years. The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom. And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered.
How to speak.
15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever:
1. Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they'll know by the end.
2. Your ideas are like your children. You're too close to them. What's obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.
3. The 5-minute rule. The first 5 minutes of any talk decide whether people listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.
4. Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.
5. Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.
6. Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.
7. Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence isn't awkward. It's processing.
8. Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They can't listen and read simultaneously.
9. Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.
10. Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they're not inspired by.
11. End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.
12. Never say thank you at the end. It's weak. End with something that lands.
13. Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.
14. The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.
15. Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill.
Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing.
Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind.
You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible.
Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs.
He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this.
Watch it tonight. Bookmark this first.
Follow @codewithimanshu for more lessons from the people who built the future.
Candidate : "Honestly? Nothing. I have loans, rent just went up, and I'm tired of being underpaid because I'm 'still learning.' I know my worth now."
HR went back to his boss.
Showed them the cost of leaving the role open another 3 months. The lost productivity. The team burnout. The recruiter fees if we went external.
It was over 50,000.
The boss accepted.
Here's the part that still gives the HR chills: Six months later, she told HR she had another offer for 130,000 per month but turned it down because they were the only company that fought FOR her, not AGAINST her.
Candidates remember who believed in them. They remember who negotiated IN GOOD FAITH versus who played games.
Stop treating salary negotiations like a battle to win. Start treating them like the first test of your company culture.
Because if you can't advocate for someone BEFORE they join, why would they believe you'll advocate for them AFTER?
Manager: Starting next month, the new policy is five days a week in the office. No exceptions.
Employee: I manage the New Zealand accounts. Most of my calls happen between 12 a.m. and 2 a.m. Working remotely helps me manage that schedule.
Manager: We need you at your desk from 8 to 5. The whole team needs to be together to improve our culture.
Employee: If I’m at my desk from 8 to 5, I won’t be available for those midnight calls.
Manager: Figure it out. We’re not bending the rules for one person.
Employee: Understood. Here is my resignation.
Manager: Great. Rules are rules!
One month later…
Manager: Why are sales in the New Zealand region down 50%?
HR: Because nobody is answering their calls.
Manager: Why not?
HR: Because it’s midnight here, and everyone is asleep.
Manager: We need someone to answer those calls.
Team Lead: We had someone. You made them sit in traffic for two hours a day just to sit in office with noise cancellation headphones.
Manager texts Employee…
Manager: The New Zealand region is a mess. We can offer you a hybrid schedule if you come back.
Employee: Sorry, it’s too late. My new company trusts me to manage my time, not my location.
You can mandate a desk. You can’t mandate engagement.
When you value policies over people, you lose your best people.
To the young people of #Rwanda, being young is not enough. You cannot afford to waste any opportunity. Do not let the fear of failure or taking risks stand in the way of who you can be. Claim your rightful place in the world, no one will hand it to you
@RugyendoQuotes@SecRubio I hope now you understand the why you should have consulted UN before going for this war. Multipolarity is what the world needs. History teaches us that no single country can rule the whole world. Let that sink in.
On Phoenix TV, Merz couldn't explain how Germans lives have improved under his time as chancellor — 'Too early to sum up'
Translation: It's only gotten WORSE
Next time try investing in YOUR country instead of a fascist junta in Kiev
Ronald Kwesiga: By the time we came into the NRM Secretariat, the Sovereignty Bill was already in motion and that's why it's the current house that's processing this bill. I believe the CEC and the NRM caucus has had an input.
#NBSMorningBreeze#NBSUpdates
@ChimpReports@dbahati He has sent our economy tumbling especially at this time when the geopolitical situation is threatening and testing our economy to the bone marrow.
@ChimpReports@dbahati And mostly these small businesses were employing millions of youths. I would like to alternative employment opportunities he is offering. Also let him know that he has nipped the budding entrepreneurs of millions of youths. He has also deprived effective demand for millions.