Samuel Mills

Equipping leaders & Building valuable companies. Insights are meant to be shared.

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”
~ C. S. Lewis | The Weight Of Glory

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

My copy of Storytelling With Data: Before & After (https://t.co/iaz2Pniciq) has FINALLY arrived 🚚📚📊📈
Can't wait to sit down with my favorite tea & digest the latest and greatest book by @storywithdata. Thank you for helping data pros communicate well.
#SWDbeforeandafter

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

Super excited for SWD's latest book to be released this week. (https://t.co/iaz2PnhEsS). Being able to follow the thought process of refining a visualization and seeing it step by step has helped me create a framework for evaluating my own design process.
#SWDbeforeandafter

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

I was first introduced to Storytelling with Data by my mentor, @AuroraGeis, nearly a decade ago. Since then, my data communication skills were sharpened. This month SWD's new book drops: Before and After. Preorder! It's worth your time!
https://t.co/70KCR8S6Mp
#SWDbeforeandafter

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

Storytelling is vital to communication because it makes the important memorable. When communicating with data 📊, the same logic applies. @ryanburge's use of data storytelling on faith communities is fantastic. SWD's book drops in Sept:
https://t.co/JjhknEam8E
#SWDbeforeandafter

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

In the knowledge economy in which we live and work, your ability to continually learn and grow your skill set will be one of the sole diffentiators in advancing your career or even keeping it. Your library card should be well used📚. #LocalLibrary #KnowledgEconomy

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

Bonus💯🏀:
"Good Strategy is built on functional knowledge about what works, what doesn't, and why... because it is available to all, it can rarely be decisive. The most precious knowledge is proprietary, available only to your organization" 🧵3/3

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

My reading this summer has consisted of diving deep into the waters 🌊 of clear & good business strategy vs the murky puddles of stagnate goals dressed up to be strategy. @RRumelt's classic business 📖 on the topic, Good Strategy / Bad Strategy is pure gold. 🧵 1/3

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

Top 3 Takeaways:
1) Goals/ KPIs are not Strategy!
2) Learn to recognize fluff ☁️ disguised as Strategy.
3) A coherent Strategy is your plan🗺📃 through polices and actions to achieve / reach an objective (Note: this is process is hard work and takes 🧠 power). 🧵 2/3

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

Bonus💯🏀:
Gear your spontaneous responses to appeal and apply to your entire audience. Otherwise you will lose them in the details.

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

Appreciative for @Abrahams_Matt's 📚: "Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot."
So many communication insights not taught in college. Worth the time to read because you are in the driver seat when you need to communicate spontaneously.

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

Top 3 takeaways:
1) Have an anxiety management routine when prepping to speak publicly: Hint: cool down and be mindful 🧊🧠.
2)Dare to be Dull🍴. Be creative not 🖼 perfect.
3) Converse with your audience👥. They are not scrutinizing your communication as you think they are.

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

Bonus💯🏀:
"You have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket" - Peter Thiel

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

Finished reading #ZerotoOne by @peterthiel. Top 3 takeaways:
1) New Technology 🧪> globalization 🌐
2) Build a monopoly to be able to R&D New Technology🧪 ☝️
3) Answer the question✋️: "What valuable company is nobody building?"

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

Very thankful for those that served and gave their lives, so that I can live free. #MemorialdayRememberance

[Ryan Beaty, Ph.D. @ryanbeaty]

Referring to the situation with Texas #ChiAlpha as a “hiccup” is at best a gross oversimplification and at worst a cruel dismissal of decades of abuse, neglect, and abdication of duty. #gc23

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

@OsmarLopezJr Please hit me up when you do. Would love to have you over.

[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

@OsmarLopezJr Agree. When are you coming back to SA? Its been too long.

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[Samuel Mills @samueljmills]

@ryanbeaty Well said and I agree. There is something to be said when people confuse power & success with God's favor. Not everything that happens in one's life is a rubberstamp by God that this is what he desires.