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Guide to Effective Communication From The Princess Bride
Inigo Montoya, a character in the story “The Princess Bride,” provides a simple lesson on communicating.
Step 1: Give a polite greeting.
Step 2: State your name.
Step 3: Establish a personal connection.
Step 4: Manage expectations of the relationship.
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Getting to No in Chinese Culture
“Getting to Yes” is a popular book about winning negotiations, but when talking about inter-cultural communication, “Getting to No” might be more instructive. Professor Zeng’s humorous description of different ways to handle a demanding McDonald’s customer shows deep cultural differences in seeing the world.
The American way is to stand on rules, communicating the reasons in detail. The Chinese style is to keep the relationship in harmony, even if it means bending the rules or the truth. The American way is direct, the Chinese indirect. American (and most western) communication is low context, valuing precision, while Chinese (and most Asian) communication is high context, valuing ambiguity & reading between the lines.
But Dr. Zeng’s point doesn’t end there. His final point is based on deep knowledge of philosophy in the Book of Changes. Strict statement of & adherence to arbitrary laws 法 is not prioritized. People have reason 理（logical principles or truth）in the heart, but out of the mouth comes words adapting to each situation, to keep the proper order in relationships & the world. For Chinese, he advises to look at the reason behind spoken words for clear communication.
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Can You “Unhear” Confirmation Bias?
You are constantly changing…the “You” before you heard the recording and the “You” after the recording are like 2 different beings. Once we hold a pattern in our brains, it becomes very difficult to undo it, & our brain will easily seek out similar patterns. When we acquire a certain belief, we’ll see things that confirm that belief, even in a chaotic environment.
This way of brain functioning was probably helpful for survival in a predatory world, where learning patterns of dangerous animals kept us away from them; but in the modern world, it’s difficult to learn new things if we keep looking for old patterns. We may think that we’re doing good research on a topic to enlighten ourselves, but this bias directs our attention to the things that we want to find, making it easy to either entrench wrong beliefs, or miss new truths. Overcoming the bias is difficult, but becoming aware of it is a 1ststep.
I’ve written a short article on some methods that might help overcome confirmation bias @ https://andamaninspirations.com/2018/04/26/seeing-red-7-ways-to-overcome-your-confirmation-bias/
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Communicating Thai Culture Through Body Language
Body language speaks much louder than words! The verbal portion of a message is responsible for only 7% of what people remember…body language accounts for 55% of what people retain. Body language is particularly important in the collectivist culture of Thailand, where it communicates the social order & respect.
I found a cute school project that some Thai students produced. Unfortunately they didn’t post enough information to give any more credit than this…their longer original is @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrkMuD_5mh0
My edited version illustrates some important gestures, facial expressions, & postures for maintaining proper relationships in Thai culture—both what to do & what to not do.
Effective intercultural communication starts with understanding that others see the world differently than we do.
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China’s Rise: Opportunity in Disruption
Disruptive innovation. Creative destruction. These are popular buzzwords that we might apply to a rapidly changing world economy. China’s relative & absolute rise in wealth has been astounding over the last 40 years. Their presence in the Asian & world market is certainly disruptive to the old order. This change is happening in the context of rapid technological change in the market as well.
What does all this mean to you personally?
Do you feel prepared for a disrupted world?
In disruption, there is always opportunity for innovation.
We have to make our skills sets as responsive as possible, sharpening our unique leadership, inter-cultural communication, & other soft power skills.
People who can take the considerable time & money for an MBA might get those skills—but there’s another choice.
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The Space Between Stimulus & Response
As of 2015 YouTube had over 2 million cat videos! But no matter how amusing they are, I’m glad that I’m not a cat. Cats are mastered by their environment, reacting to stimuli & immediately responding. They sense food, danger, or a pretty young feline, and have automatic responses. But automatic responses are not always a good thing, especially in our human society.
Responding to stimuli with auto-responses of anger or jealousy, for example, could easily get us in trouble. Fortunately, our brain allows humans to pause in that gap between stimulus & response.
Facing death in WWII extermination camp, Viktor Frankl found the one area over which he had absolute control was the gap between stimulus & response. Having choice gave him freedom & growth.
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Capturing the Speed of Light
Scientists have captured real-time video of light splitting at a barrier…at a mind-blowing 10 trillion frames per second. At the Caltech Optical Imaging Laboratory, scientists developed this compressed ultrafast photography (T-CUP) to capture for the 1sttime a single ultrashort laser pulse as it hits & splits at a beam splitter.
Technologies are constantly advancing, faster & faster. But the real challenge is asking the right questions about how to apply technology, and what is the meaning for humanity. You don’t have to be a physics professor or rocket scientist to learn & employ those skills.
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The Future of Work
The pace of technological change in the work space is dizzying, threatening to leave those unprepared behind.
The most important areas we can keep ourselves relevant are Leadership and Soft Power Skills.
Breaking the barriers to reaching the next level requires a personal choice to change…change to a proactive posture, to smart decision-making, to taking ownership.
Without experienced direction, the change process can take years of mistakes or chasing the wrong things. Soft Power Skills Academy taps into the power of Dr. Cummings’ expertise, and the synergy of working with like-minded leaders, to accelerate positive change.
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Surviving Survivorship Bias
The best way to fight survivorship bias is to constantly be looking for lessons to be learned from failures, to find why other decision makers in similar circumstances failed.
In the early years after the US entry into World War II, bomber missions were practically suicide flights—US bomber crews had about a one-in-four chance of making it through their required 25 missions. British crews had a nearly 50% casualty rate. The Army Air Force wanted to fortify the bombers with extra metal to increase their survivability. Slapping extra armor all over the plane was impractical, as it would make the heavy planes unflyable.
Officials turned to a special team of scientists who were using advanced mathematics to solve technical problems. They gave this team all available statistics on bombers with plots of everywhere they had been hit, which was primarily along the wings, fuselage, and around the tail gunner. The Army brass was inclined to armor up those areas. But the team, and particularly a brilliant Jewish immigrant from Hungary, Abraham Wald, realized that the statistics were missing a key component—the bombers that didn’t survive! Wald assumed that in fact combat damage on planes was likely to be evenly distributed, and used complex mathematics to extrapolate and determine critical areas, like the engines, that needed reinforcement. Recognizing the Survivorship Bias helped thousands of airmen survive.
Mindset Trumps Plan
Mindset trumps the plan, according to ex-Navy SEAL & author Mark Divine. In the business environment, we live in a VUCA environment: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous. It takes mental discipline to negotiate a VUCA environment. This discipline can be learned. We eliminate doubt by taking action. We can learn to control our attention via practice, to focus intently and intentionally on things that matter. We can learn to use the OODA loop: Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act with velocity and agility.
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How Lack of Curiosity Killed Columbia
January 16, 2003
Space Shuttle Columbia launched.
Launch video reviewed the next day indicated a chunk of foam insulation on the external tank had broken free & hit the left wing.
Engineers requested inspection by the flight crew or imagery, but managers refused, believing foam strikes, which had occurred on previous missions, were of no significance.
Accident investigation tests demonstrated that the foam, traveling at 530 mph, likely damaged the wing and its ability to protect the shuttle from heat on re-entry.
Heat on re-entry penetrated into the wing, melting it from the inside out.
On re-entry, engineers were getting indications of high temperatures & problems in the left wing, while other systems were normal.
Without repairing the damage before re-entry, the crew of 7 was doomed.
The accident investigation report stated, “Managers created huge barriers against dissenting opinions by stating preconceived conclusions based on subjective knowledge
and experience, rather than solid data.”
They faulted the organizational culture at NASA for “flawed decision making, self-deception, introversion and a diminished curiosity…The intellectual curiosity and skepticism that a solid safety culture requires was almost entirely absent.”
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All’s Well That Ends Well
All’s Well That Ends Well?
The relative success of the Thailand Cave Rescue, getting all 13 souls out alive, can easily lead to complacency and overconfidence. Post-op interviews demonstrate that disaster was only nearly averted many times. Pilots often joke “any landing you can walk away from is a good one,” but we all know and practice thorough debriefs after each and every flight.
It’s easy to move on from one successful operation to the next in your business, thinking that you must be doing everything right since it all turned out OK. But perhaps the main lesson of behavioral economics research is that we’re never as smart as we think we are. We use perfect-vision hindsight and think the successful outcome we saw was inevitable.
After action reviews aren’t just for accident investigations or when things went badly—we need to analyze each success as well. Not doing so risks failure in the future.
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It Takes a Team to Make a Miracle
It takes a team to make a miracle. Here’s the Behind the Scenes Story of
Luang Cave, Thailand. An elite group of heroes risked their lives and tested their skills to find and rescue a trapped team.
But success was not possible without a multitude of support.
Leaders need teams. Teams need leaders.
Here are some of the numbers:
12 boys and a coach. 18 days. 10,000 people. 90 cave divers. 2000 soldiers. 271 organizations. 27 nations. 1.5 million cubic meters of water pumped. 100+ shafts drilled. 700 Oxygen tanks placed. Hundreds of thousands of meals served by volunteers. Volunteer services included laundry, haircuts, placing ropes, transportation, translation, road repair, massage. And 126 farmers had their rice fields flooded by water from the cave.
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Leadership Lessons From Ryan & His Orphans
Courage
Ownership
Adaptability
Resourcefulness
Planning
November 1943. America’s first leap in the island hopping strategy toward Japan in the central Pacific.
The Marines will make an amphibious landing at 3 locations on Betio Island, in the Tarawa Atoll, a part of the Gilbert Island group.
But they must pass sharp coral reefs.
A New Zealand officer who had lived there warns that the tide may not rise high enough, but the plan goes ahead anyway.
Minesweepers clear the Lagoon.
Landing craft follow.
The tide is too low.
Boats become sitting targets 500 meters from shore.
Marines must wade to shore under withering fire.
Chaos.
Units are scattered.
Those who get to shore are pinned down at a seawall that vehicles can’t overcome.
Of the first wave of about 1000 men, only 500 or so make it through alive, uninjured, ready to continue fighting.
Off of the Plan now, Major Ryan ends up too far west, separated from his unit, with only scattered remnants of troop units.
With no means of communication, Ryan takes charge, gathering and leading men—Ryan’s Orphans.
He directs engineers to blast a path for 2 tanks through the seawall.
With teamwork, weapons limited to rifles & two damaged tanks, Ryan and his orphans clear a large area through the first day.
Major Ryan establishes a beachhead where none had been planned.
He’s able to find a radio to coordinate a follow-on landing.
Reinforcements land with minimal casualties the next day. Resistance falls by the 3rd day.
Ryan is awarded the Navy Cross “for extraordinary heroism, great determination and leadership, conspicuous fighting spirit, great personal bravery, and tactical skill.”
How does a World War II battle apply today?
We all face formidable resistance:
Self-Doubt
Fear of Change
Resistance in the market to what you want to introduce.
What are the leadership lessons from Major Ryan?
Beware of Overconfidence in Planning.
Clear Obstacles Before You Begin.
Expect Chaos, and Adapt.
Take Ownership.
Build a Team With Resources You Have, Not What You Wish You Had.
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Crisis of Meaning
Recent high-visibility suicides have focused attention on a bigger problem of the modern world.
Our Problem Isn’t Lack of Happiness…It’s a Crisis of Meaning
US suicide rates have risen steadily between 1999 and 2016. — Center for Disease Control
In 2016 in the US, nearly 45,000 people ended their own lives.
That’s nearly 122 people every day, about 5 per hour.
The problem is not confined to the US. Even Thailand has nearly 4000 suicides per year.
In the economic developed world, values change to extreme individualism and single-minded pursuit of happiness.
30 years ago researchers asked “How many people do you have in your life that you feel comfortable talking about the most important issues?” Most said 3 people. Today, most answer…ZERO.
We need a sense of belonging
to find meaning. Belonging to something bigger than ourselves. We can, and should, respond to the Crisis of Meaning.
Reach out to others, connect.
Establish Belonging.
Pursue Meaning.
If you need help for yourself or someone else, please contact: In Thailand, Department of Mental Health Dial 1323 In US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Talk: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) Chat: suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Skin in the Game
“… people of rank depend on how many scars they have…”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, on having “Skin in the Game”
Buck Shelford, of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team, had his scars.
He was never the star player, but he was tough.
In a particularly violent game against France in 1986, Buck had 3 teeth knocked out, was knocked unconscious for 2 minutes, had his scrotum (male part) torn and seriously injured, and he played on.
The respect he earned made him captain from 1987 to 1990. The All Blacks never lost a game under his inspirational leadership
To be a leader, you don’t need to be the star…you need to have skin in the game.
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Michael Jordan-Failure Leads to Success
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
Grit…that’s the word that describes getting up again and again every time we’re knocked down. Grit characterizes successful people like Michael Jordan.
Psychologist Angela Duckworth, author of Grit, studied several categories of people who persevered through difficulties and succeeded, including West Point cadets, National Spelling Bee finalists, and teachers in high-risk schools. She found that the characteristic of “grit” was much more important to success than factors like intelligence or even natural talent. She finds that “gritty people” have four traits: Interest, Practice, Purpose, and Hope.
Interest is a conscious practice—it’s not “following your passion,” it’s “making your passion.”
Practice is deliberate. It’s not mindlessly repeating something 10,000 times…it’s doing it 10,000 times with mental focus.
Purpose connects your passionate work with other people…a self-centered purpose isn’t sustainable.
Hope is a conscious attitude of being proactive and optimistic.
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5 Lessons About Business Leadership Inspired by Bishop Curry
“Think and imagine a world where love is the way.…Imagine business and commerce when love is the way….’Cause when love is the way, we actually treat each other, well, like we are actually family.” – Bishop Michael Curry
What does a “way of love,” like family, look like in business and commerce?
Love isn’t just affection, or a fairy tale of unicorns and rainbows.
“Love is not a feeling, it’s an act of your will.” Singer Don Francisco
Some people think love means overlooking bad behavior, no matter what.
Forgiving and forgetting everything bad.
Making people as comfortable as possible.
But Love With the Best Interest of Others Can Look Tough.
5 Views of What Family Love Looks Like in Business Leaders:
1. Sets high expectations…Doesn’t tolerate less than the best out of other people.
2. Pushes people out of their comfort zone.
3. Doesn’t enable non-productive behavior.
4. Communicates with “radical honesty” — truthfully, but with empathy.
5. Makes every failure an opportunity for learning and growth.
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Cultivating Culture-7 Principles of Gardening to Apply to Your Organization
Every organization has a culture, & culture is not static. It’s like a living, dynamic, & complex biosphere—designed by humans, but with naturally growing elements that go beyond design.
GE CEO Jack Welch once said, “you think of the employee population as a garden, & you’re pouring the fertilizer on, & pouring the water on, & you want the flowers to grow…your job is to constantly pour the fertilizer & the water on, & give everybody a chance to flourish.”
Cultivating Culture: 7 Principles of Gardening to Apply to Your Organization
- Intention. Gardens require planning, feedback, & active intervention.
- Nurture. We can’t force plants to grow by beating them into compliance.
- Respect Individuality. Different plants grow under different conditions. Provide the right environment to produce intended results.
- Sorting & Selecting. Some garden conditions won’t be suited for certain types of plants.
- Defending. Weed out unwanted elements like dishonesty or lack of respect.
- Mutual support. Plants have mutually beneficial relationships, & need outside influencers & interactions.
- Timing. Gardens go through seasons. Not everything will be blooming or producing fruit at the same time.
Everest Disaster-Deadly Consequences of Counting Sunk Cost
Everest Disaster 1996:
A Deadly Consequence of Counting Sunk Cost
Doug Hansen was a 46-year-old postal worker from Seattle. He was turned back 110 meters from summit in his first attempt at Everest in 1995. He was determined to succeed.
“I’ve put too much of myself into this mountain to quit now without giving it everything I’ve got.”
Rob Hall was his experienced guide. Rob had turned Doug back in 1995 expedition, and was now heavily invested in seeing Doug succeed.
The group had a planned turnaround time of 2 pm. But Hall decided to continue so that Hansen could reach the peak about 4 pm.
Doug collapsed on descent. Rob stayed to assist in the “Death Zone.”
Both perished in storm.
Effective Decisions must control emotions and ignore sunk costs.
Sunk Costs: Unrecoverable time, effort, or money we have already invested in some venture.
Previous effort spent should not affect decisions about the future.
Make decisions based on analysis of current resources and known risks.
9 Leadership Lessons From My Working Mother
Leadership training starts from birth! I learned irreplaceable lessons from Mom, who led by her selfless and hard-working example. Thank you to working mothers everywhere!
- A job well done is its own reward.
- Don’t expect other people to do what you can do for yourself.
- Give first, and generously. In the end, we gain more than we give.
- Give people the freedom to choose what they want to do…but whatever they decide to do, encourage them to give it their best.
- Never stop learning.
- Find a way to be thankful for everything that happens.
- Life is neither easy nor fair. People fail. Expect failure, forgive, learn from it, and grow stronger through adversity.
- Never pass up a chance to have fun with friends…and laugh as much as you can.
- Never lose the wonder of creation in the world. See beauty in the simple things.
Work Harder Get Luckier
“The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get.”
It’s the PGA Championship of 1972, Oakland Hills, Michigan. In the final round, 5 players are within 1 stroke of winning…a tight battle.
With only 3 holes to play, South African golfing star Gary Player has hit his ball into a very difficult spot. He confidently strikes the ball to within 1 meter of the hole. He goes on to win the tournament.
He looks back on that shot as his greatest. “You’ve got to be a little bit lucky…although the harder you work, the luckier you get…The greatest gift a man can have in life is adversity.”
Gary’s mom died when he was young, his father was away in gold mines much of the time. He overcame adversity to become one of golf’s legends, as well as a successful business man and philanthropist. He had a reputation as one of golf’s hardest workers.
We can’t always be lucky, but we can always be preparing ourselves for when opportunity comes.
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Achieving Effective & Efficient Teamwork
How Do We Achieve Effective and Efficient Teamwork?
Effective: Producing intended results
Efficient: Getting results with no wasted effort
Optimal Teamwork Comes From a Disciplined Process.
It takes individual preparation and cooperating on a focused task.
But we really improve when review each task with our peers.
Accepting feedback, reflecting, and taking our lessons learned to the next level toward perfection.
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Lead From Behind
To be a leader you don’t need to be the star of the show. The USAF Thunderbirds demonstrate outstanding leadership, and capture everyone’s attention with their awe-inspiring flying. But leadership in the background makes that all happen.
Since 9/11, USAF tankers have delivered 20 billion pounds of fuel by air! In a military operation, not one of those alluring F-16s brings to bear its full capability without air refueling & the same goes for almost every other US military aircraft.
Tankers are unsung heroes. They lead from behind, in an irreplaceable support role. Leadership doesn’t mean shining in front of everyone’s eyes. It’s about fulfilling your role, leading your team in support of something bigger than you.
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Seeing Red: Confirmation Bias
If you have some belief already–like red sports car drivers are jerks–then all you’ll see on the road are red sports cars driving badly. That’s confirmation bias. The fix is to broaden our perspective by looking for evidence that might disprove our previously established beliefs.
Your Story: Ann’s Experience of Soft Power Skills Academy
Are you ready for a challenge to step up? Are you looking for a practical way to improve your human skills, to reach your personal and work goals, to attract others to join you in meaningful change? This story shows what you can experience at Soft Power Skills Academy…and this can be your story. Soft Power Skills Academy is an interactive online educational workshop focused on using professionally-guided projects to build lifelong networks and to practice using soft power skills. We inspire and empower participants to gain self-confidence, improved thinking, increased productivity, and boldness in leading positive, meaningful change. Our service exists because the current educational system is largely ineffective and inefficient in time and resources, while we offer people the experienced guidance, relationships, and soft power tools they need to navigate today’s dynamic, complex world.
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Your Story: Dan’s Experience at Soft Power Skills Academy
Find yourself in this story. Ready to move up, to take on more responsibility, to create meaningful change. You can prepare yourself at Soft Power Skills Academy.
We are an interactive online educational workshop focused on using professionally-guided projects to build lifelong networks and to practice using soft power skills. We inspire and empower participants to gain self-confidence, improved thinking, increased productivity, and boldness in leading positive, meaningful change. Our service exists because the current educational system is largely ineffective and inefficient in time and resources, while we offer people the experienced guidance, relationships, and soft power tools they need to navigate today’s dynamic, complex world.
Our Story-Soft Power Skills Academy
The story of Soft Power Skills Academy begins with creator, US Air Force pilot, and Asian expert Robert Cummings’ vision. The Academy is an interactive online educational workshop focused on using professionally-guided projects to build lifelong networks and to practice using soft power skills. We inspire and empower participants to gain self-confidence, improved thinking, increased productivity, and boldness in leading positive, meaningful change. Our service exists because the current educational system is largely ineffective and inefficient in time and resources, while we offer people the experienced guidance, relationships, and soft power tools they need to navigate today’s dynamic, complex world. Inspire.Empower.Change!
Soft Power Skills Academy
Soft Power Skills Academy is an interactive online educational workshop focused on using professionally-guided projects to build lifelong networks and to practice using soft power skills. We inspire and empower participants to gain self-confidence, improved thinking, increased productivity, and boldness in leading positive, meaningful change. Our service exists because the current educational system is largely ineffective and inefficient in time and resources, while we offer people the experienced guidance, relationships, and soft power tools they need to navigate today’s dynamic, complex world. Inspire.Empower.Change!
Why Change? Soft Power Skills Academy
Why Change? To improve, we need to move. Soft Power Skills Academy is an interactive online educational workshop focused on using professionally-guided projects to build lifelong networks and to practice using soft power skills. We inspire and empower participants to gain self-confidence, improved thinking, increased productivity, and boldness in leading positive, meaningful change. Our service exists because the current educational system is largely ineffective and inefficient in time and resources, while we offer people the experienced guidance, relationships, and soft power tools they need to navigate today’s dynamic, complex world. Inspire.Empower.Change!
