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Sweltering
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Watching people swelter through a European summer from wintry Melbourne, it’s hard to imagine what heat feels like.
This is a literal example of...
Who are you really recruiting?
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You may have heard about the coffee cup test for job candidates.
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Former Xero MD Trent Innes once shared that during interviews, he’d...
All berry behavioural bang
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Here’s how Boost Juice has architected choice for its customers:
Defaulting customers to the most expensive option, increasing the odds that’s what they’ll choose*....
Uniform
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Two reasons I wear tops with my logo in most of my social media content:
1. Branding
You never know where your content might...
Interrupted every 2 minutes
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“Employees are interrupted every two minutes during core work hours—275 times a day—by meetings, emails, or chats. Calculated as a rolling 28-day sum of...
Interest and curiosity are different things
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Perhaps, like me, you’ve used terms like interest, curiosity and engagement interchangeably.
Are you interested in this? Has your curiosity been piqued? Are you...
How customers REALLY make decisions
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Why do customers behave the way they do?
The more confident we are in answering that question, the more effectively we can design our...
Every shower has a learning curve
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Every time you step into a different shower, there’s a learning curve.
Sure, the objective is the same. Get clean.
And the fundamentals are...
Deadline avoidant people
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On a recent coaching call, someone asked me how to work with a team member who doesn’t want to commit to a deadline.
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The email that cost me $750, but them their brand
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If you told me my subscription would be changing from $15 USD per month to $159 per month, you’d get my attention. In Australian...
Quantification fixation
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Numbers beat narrative.
That’s what 21 experiments involving over 23,000 people found.
When comparing options, whether hiring, donating, or making policy decisions, people consistently...
Converting interest into action
It's one thing to capture someone's attention, but how do you turn it into actions like buying, booking and calling?Â
In this clip - a...
