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Robert Saric

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Careers Today Are Patchworks

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Freelancers make up a third of U.S. workers and Millennials will have 15 to 20 jobs over the course of their lives. To stay competitive in this economy, you will need to continually disrupt and reinvent yourself. And if you don’t believe in your own abilities, no one else will. You need to buy into your own story and define your identity.

This, of course, makes us all in the business of sales. We are selling ourselves, our skill set, our vision, every day — when we’re looking for a new job, angling for a promotion, meeting a new client, competing for new business, etc. And as any sales professional knows, you’ve got to use and love your product.
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Entering Beast Mode

In the late 80’s there was a video game developed by Sega called Altered Beast.  The player(s) control a centurion, and as you make your way through the levels fighting creatures you begin to progressively increase in both strength and size. When you get to a certain point near the end of the level, the centurion turns into a beast, hence the term, “beast mode”. It’s a state in the game, where you are fully powered up, close to invincible and can dominate your opponents.
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Don’t Give Me a Piece of Bubble Gum and Try To Call It a Meal

Forced perspective is a photographic illusion generally used to make two or more objects seem to be a different size than their actual size. A classic example of this is when you see a picture of someone pushing against the Leaning Tower of Pisa and it seems like the person is actually supporting it from falling. Forced perspective, however, doesn’t only apply to photography in my opinion. I find that it also occurs quite often in the business world.
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Treat Contractors Well

We’ve all had them.

They come in all shapes & sizes: needy ones, demanding ones, ones that know too much, ones that know too little, ones that don’t pay – most of us have experienced at least some form of these problematic issues when dealing with clients.

This is not one of my personal rants about the challenges with providing great services to clients but rather, what patterns tend to exist in truly successful client and service provider partnerships. (Note that I purposely emphasized the word ‘partnership’.)
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Be Great at Helping Others Succeed

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You might want to start something great and meaningful, but not know what that is yet or how to get there. It’s OK. Start by helping grow someone else’s “BIG IDEA” or joining an organization that gives you enough autonomy to showcase your abilities and focus on becoming the best Intrapreneur you can be.  You’ll learn to start doing instead of simply wondering, stalling, hoping, wishing. Help hard. Be relentlessly resourceful to your supervisors/managers and when the time comes, you’ll have ample opportunity to steer a ship of your own.

More Intrapreneurs Needed

A very good colleague of mine is quickly becoming the ‘go to’ person at his new company.  He’s the type of person every boss absolutely loves because he actually gets shit done and makes them look great in the process. Rather than adopting the big-company mentality, where decisions and processes slow down any actual work accomplished, he kept his entrepreneurial mindset and has taken on and successfully delivered several high profile projects within his first 6 months. Something many others had failed to do. He is an example of a great Intrapreneur. A talented person who is comfortable making decisions in the face of ambiguity, and accepting the idea of failure and learning from failure. The best work environments (no matter how small or large the organization) build that into their culture.
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The Psychology of Influence in Decision Making

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I have always been fascinated how certain biases and bad habits can influence our better judgement. Over the past 50 years, psychologists have identified numerous “hidden traps” that derail good decisions, whether they’re made by leading business executives, political leaders, or consumers while shopping. Many can be traced to certain mental shortcuts that we use every day to manage life’s challenges – these rules of thumb we apply unconsciously because our brains, unlike those of ants or birds, weren’t designed to tackle problems collectively.
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Thank You For Changing The World

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Very few times in one’s life has there been an individual that has had such a profound impact on how we think; not just about technology, but about life. I am a tremendously passionate person. I wake up every morning with a deep burning desire to inspire others to reach their true potential and to live in the moment. Albert Einstein argued that, “there are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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Great Systems Need to Create Flow

Our attraction to games and the enjoyment they produce is a concept highlighted in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow (yes, last name is 16 characters). According to Mihaly, human beings achieve a state of optimal experience when our skills are continually in balance with the challenges we face.

This means that as we progress in any activity, we should be challenged just beyond the level of our abilities. This way, we always have to improve ever so slightly to succeed. With each small improvement, we reach ever higher for the next level.
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