So that was a very long-winded response to, yeah, I get that coaching. What’s coaching? Whoa. Now I want to hear what you thought of. So you obviously had to have engaged this person as your coach, right?I did. Yes. Then what did you then think coaching was? I didn’t even ...
What happens in typical discussions is that contributions jump from one person to another. Some participants are very long winded. Some participants don’t say a word. Information is often missing and has to be assumed because the people who really know (usually those close to the action) are...
It required a lot of quick talking and having to think of "How do I describe this to get the most important information out first, without being too long-winded, but also without making it sound like I'm talking down to the other person?" on the fly--but in general I think the "...
and not bothering to—they’d become equally easy to exercise. If I had made getting better my predominant habit all along, I’d be an expert at these sorts of interactions
There is no word stronger than the customer's — resist the urge to engage in long-winded meetings and arguments. Just ship it and prove a point. Much easier said than done — this implies: Months of planning are not necessary. Months of writing specs are not necessary — specs should ...
“Oh I only have this much energy, so I can only use this much so I don’t get tired.” It’s the wrong mindset because energy conservation wastes energy. You will be more defensive while your opponent is doing all the fighting. You will only get tired even faster because you were ...
My birthday in India, 2012 – two weeks in to a horribly longwinded bout of Delhi Belly… South American resolutions to diarrhoea have simply been to carry on as normally as possible, with the hope that it eventually goes away… Diarrhoea: how to cope with it ...