This week, one of the most awful conversations I've ever had to have with a business partner.

And the conversations you should have with your dad, seeing as it's Fathers Day on Sunday, at least where I live.

People are going to ask you for discounts as a matter of course.

You don't have to say yes.

Want to know how to remember things more easily? To step above the daily grind of to-do lists and find out what's really important to you?

It's proven to work by neurological researchers, and the tech is yours for about $4.

Link from show - Do the big thing: the problem with Atomic Habits

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6YM9xFwKh2JqrlzSBX6g3x?si=467fae817ea643c2

How not to execute a rebrand.

Musk has done some genius work in his time, but his Twitter work is that of a man with nobody telling him what he needs to hear.

I don't usually do true crime podcasts but at last my own industry has an epic crime story.

We go inside the Human Group's extraction of $18M from a major bank to spend on all kinds of luxury stuff. Courtesy of friends James and Bradley who had an inside view of the whole caper.

Ask yourself: would the organisation I work in be any worse off financially if your job evaporated? It's a risky place to be.

We get asked to work for free all the time, so this week some thoughts on dealing with that.

It’s amazing how many salaried people will straight-up ask suppliers to work for their company for free. Would they do their job for free? Do they report to a CEO who works for free?

Here’s a helpful way to futureproof yourself against whatever the hell is in store in the decades to come. Even if your job is mostly online, going to conferences and industry gatherings is really productive long-term insurance as the nature of work changes.

 Yet most of us find it terrifying. It doesn't have to be. I'm a natural introvert, and I have a plan on how to reduce the pain and make it more productive for you.

One of the best ways to lift your all-round business performance is to develop a constant awareness that other people are not you.

It’s so valuable across lots of essential areas: management, sales, marketing, advising clients, and more.

The more you understand people, the better you get.

Yet so much business behaviour is driven by the idea that everyone thinks the same as you.

The path to success comes from embracing the differences between you, your staff and your customers.

Salespeople get an unfair amount of stick for all the usual stereotypes.

I’ve had a window into their world for the last few weeks, thanks to my own stubborn pig-headedness, and frankly salespeople earn whatever they’re paid and more.

The other episode I refer to here: The worst customer service line I've heard in my life.