Stuff that MattRs - #245

This Weeks Stuff: ✅ How to build your Personal Board of Directors| ✅ How to tell your boss they're wrong | ✅ 20 soft skills for leaders | ✅ Create the habit of not being busy | ✅ How temptation works | ✅ Shut the f***up and listen | 🔗 Summle

🔥 Key Stuff: How to build your Personal Board of Directors

The team in your corner that could transform your career.

• How to design the perfect team of advisors.
• Plus an AI trick to onboard them today. 

❎  How to tell your boss they’re wrong

Practical and tactful ways to disagree with your boss. (via HBR)

• Disagreeing with your boss is tricky, because of the power dynamic
• Use these practical steps to improve your relationship

💪🏼  20 soft-skills for leaders

As the workplace evolves, so do the skills required to stay relevant. (via Forbes)

• These are the valuable skills that will be required in the future
• What are you focusing on to stay ahead?

🏆  Create the habit of not being busy

A methodology for more focused and meaningful ways to work (via ZenHabits)

• Stop saying yes and taking on too much work
• Coupled with a simple way to put this into practice. 

 💪🏼 How temptation works

What is happening in your brain when you are tempted by something? (via Psyche) 

• This for everyone who wants just one more bite, or five minutes more scrolling. 
• Understanding what is happening can help you handle the temptation.

👂🏼  Shut the f*** up and listen

One man's quest to stop interrupting, and tune into conversations more.  (via The Guardian)

• How to talk less and listen more.
• Practical advice that supports better relationships at work and home. 

Finally - Summle. A daily maths game that will get you thinking.

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