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The Choices you make - (7/8)

Your success, for you, your team, project and department, ultimately comes down to the choices that you make, especialy when faced with a big challenge (a "disabler")

The Disabler : “How can I write a departmental Strategy when we don’t have a business one?”
Choice A : Wait for a business strategy to be written. And here you are.

Choice B : Go to your CEO and offer to help write such a strategy, facilitating the input from all areas in the organisation.Make your choice, and put it into practice, always asking yourself that one key question - does this choice help me/us move forwards, or not...

This week - The Zeigarnik Effect - which is very important, because it covers unfinished...

sentences - phew!

The Zeigarnik Effect (named after a researcher called Bluma Zeigarnik) tells us that people are uncomfortable when something is left incomplete...and as a result remember more of what is not completed...

By the way, this is the single most powerful influence and persuasion technique on the planet. by far

Tomorrow - Conformity to Group Norms

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