“Trying something new can be daunting, especially if you fall short at first. Before you get frustrated and give up, remember that practice really does make perfect. To achieve perfection, stop focusing on it. Instead, try to enjoy the process of trying. If you want to be a great manager, you need to enjoy being a poor one long enough to get good at it. If you want to be a stellar salesperson, you need to spend time being a clumsy one first. You can achieve anything as long as you are willing to enjoy striving for it along the way.”

“The premortem technique is a sneaky way to get people to do contrarian, devil’s advocate thinking,” explains psychologist Gary Klein. “Before a project starts, say, ‘We’re looking in a crystal ball, and this project has failed; it’s a fiasco. Now, everybody, take two minutes and write down all the reasons why you think the project has failed.”

Les mer i artikkelen Taking the bias out of meetings i McKinsey Quarterly. Anbefaler også Strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?.

Business has never been better for the fearless pilot who takes back millionaires’ expensive toys. Av alle verdens jobber en fascinerende artikkel om Nick Popovich som jobber med å inndrive fly for långivere. 1300 gjennom karrieren. Til tider ganske actionpreget:

“Popovich’s first rule of firearms is pretty simple: The man who tells you he’s going to shoot you will not shoot you. So without so much as looking back, he got on the plane and flew it right to Chicago. “My job is to grab that plane,” Popovich says. “And if you haven’t paid for it, then it’s mine. And I don’t like to lose.”

Nick Popovich is a repo man, but not the kind that spirits away Hyundais from suburban driveways. Popovich is a super repo man, one of a handful of specialists who get the call when a bank wants back its Gulfstream II jet from, say, a small army of neo-Nazi freaks.”

Og ikke nok med at de henter de fra umulige lokasjoner — noen ganger  må de også reparere flyene først. Hele crazy historien på Salon.com

Jobber mye med miljøet for tiden .. kanskje vi også kan bli en grønn kjempe (RWE driver med veldig mye ikke-grønt også forsåvidt).

Første dag i ny jobb som Junior forretningsutvikler i Hafslund Strøm, dette kommer til å bli knall! Kan ikke tenke meg noe mer spennende enn å jobbe med energi, teknologi og forretningsutvikling akkurat nå.