by Nicholas Boothman | Sep 3, 2013 | Connect and Live Longer, connect in business, connect in friendship, Talking to Strangers
READING TIME: 90 SECONDS. WHAT is small talk? On the surface small talk is casual chitchat about nothing in particular. WHAT is the purpose of small talk? In spite of seeming to have little useful purpose, small talk is a bonding ritual and a strategy for quickly...
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by Nicholas Boothman | Aug 20, 2013 | Boost, connect in business, leadership, slider
READING TIME: 180 SECONDS. Want some inspiration? Listen to Dylan (like a rolling stone), Jagger (I’m a king bee), Paul Simon (a bridge over troubled water) or your favourite band. Virtually every song written is full of i-kolas. And what about the greatest of...
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by Nicholas Boothman | Aug 9, 2013 | Blog, Boost, connect in business, connect in friendship
Reading time: 100 seconds.Professor Thomas Harrell at the Stanford Business School spent 20 years examining Stanford MBAs looking for the success factor. He concluded the only identifiable predictor of success is something he called “social extroversion”...
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by Nicholas Boothman | Aug 3, 2013 | Blog, Boost, connect in business, slider
READING TIME: 110 SECONDS. Telling people the reason why you are doing something has a major influence on how they react to you because, more often than not, people willingly comply with requests when given reasons why they should. Ellen Langer, a social psychologist...
by Nicholas Boothman | Aug 2, 2013 | Be Brave. Take Risks., Boost, connect in business
A true story from my next book Be Brave. Take Risks. “I’d steadily climbed the career ladder as a Chartered Accountant for the last 20 years. I had an amazing job on paper (good pay, good security, prestigious, well respected) but I couldn’t imagine doing it for 20...
