But here's the
biggest question: Do you need an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus?
Nope. Oh, you may
want a better phone ... but you're unlikely to need a better phone.Or in many cases,
need a better anything -- other than a better you.It's easy to assume
adopting new technology is the key to success. But chasing new technology is a
waste of time when you spend more time searching for improved "stuff"
than you do on working to improve yourself.Here's a good example: cycling. The use of carbon fiber and advanced aerodynamics has made bicycles incredibly sophisticated -- and expensive. Go to a triathlon, even an entry-level "sprint" triathlon, and you'll see hundreds of $6,000, $8,000, and $10,000 bikes. Even the most casual of competitors spend thousands of dollars pursuing incremental performance gains. High-tech is the norm, not the exception.
A couple years ago I did a triathlon with a friend who is 1) a professional cyclist and 2) way too candid. A group formed around him in the staging area. One of the participants, a rather portly gentleman, talked about buying a $9,000 bike.
"A lighter bike will definitely be worth it," the man declared, obviously confident a pro cyclist who rides the most cutting of cutting-edge bikes would agree.
"Oh, hell no," my friend said. "If I were you, I wouldn't waste money on a lighter bike. You'd be a lot better off if you just lost 10 or 20 pounds."
And that was the end of that conversation.
http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/why-you-dont-need-a-new-iphone-7-but-you-really-do-need-a-better-you.html
I couldn't agree more, you don't need more stuff more gadgets more upgrades. What you need is a better you. how do you do it? do a little better today vs yesterday. improve a bit . that will take you a long way but it's not easy to beat yourself. In cycling i work with one of the best Portuguese coaches and we try to improve just a bit every year. It's not easy. why? because last year i was already working hard.
About gadgets i always think about the US, everything is old, infrastructure, 2G, still using Blackberries, etc... and despite this they are the best. Even Boeing is less tech than AIRBUS but they do equally well or better.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe
Obviously that BREXIT is going to be good for the UK? why? because they can scarp the EU regulations that are not constructive to growth. The can have a better tax system (lower taxes) and they can be different.
yes it's good to be different, why buy from you if you do exactly the same as everybody else? yes different is good.
if UK is out of EU but not close their economy they will do very well.
what they will lose is that they have to be in big airport queues, they will lose money changing their pounds everytime they travel (that was already the case) and they need to ask permission to do business in Europe.
you shouldn't do right what shouldn't be done at all
If everybody does the same thing with the same rules you probably should focus on execution. to do well what you are doing is everything.
recently i came to the conclusion that to do the right things matters a lot.
Management is doing
things right; leadership is doing the right things
Peter Drucker
you have to pick your battles you have to do things that make sense you have to do sound things.
why? because in the short run anything can happen but in the long run the sound strategy will win. just that simple
exemple:
the companies that opt for science, big data and decision based on facts and information are getting ahead in every dimension. 10 years ago the companies that did this option probably didn't do very differently from the traditional model of management (I do what everybody else does). Amazon, Booking, Facebook etc.... spent many years investing , programming, collecting data etc... and they started slowly but in the long run they will win why?
because they know more
This
year, I decided to do something radical that I hadn’t done for almost a decade.
I took a proper holiday. I disconnected myself from work altogether. I didn’t
open any work messages. I spent time reading, walking, looking at the sea — and
sometimes getting into it — while I thought about not much at all. When I
returned to work and reacquainted myself with email, it was perfectly
straightforward. I deleted almost all of them unread, responding only to the
things that looked interesting. Far from feeling overwhelmed, I felt a certain
excitement in the sudden immersion in work. It was a new-shoes and sharp-pencil
sort of feeling that used to go with the beginning of a school term.
Over
the past week it has started to dawn on me that my radical action was not
radical at all. I was merely following the latest fashion.
Lucy Kellaway, FT
I
have noticed during my career that the really important people are not always
online and do one thing with 100% focus. The people that multitask sometimes
don’t go very far ahead. Perhaps it’s a wrong impression but it’s my
experience.
People that multitask are sacrificing Focus for some surprise. It's a big cost.
