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לקפוץ למים - עקב בצד אגודל | קפיצה גדולה - וצעדים קטנים

Reuven Sherwin

Jan 24, 2021
2 min

לקפוץ למים - עקב בצד אגודל | קפיצה גדולה - וצעדים קטנים

[Original Post in English, if you prefer] [תורגם מאנגלית - אם נוח לכם באנגלית - אז בבקשה...] עוברים את התהום - בקפיצה גדולה. צריך ״פשוט לקפוץ למים״. הדרך מורכבת - מהרבה צעדים קטנים. את הדרך עוברים ״עקב בצד אגודל״. [בעקבות משוב מאחת המבקרות הנאמנות, יש דוגמה מעשית בסוף...] לא מזמן, נקלעתי לדיון על איך לחולל שינוי, לתמיד. הנושא היה איך מתחילים שינוי (מרזים, מתחילים לעשות כושר, לומדים שפה) - ומתמידים בו. שתי העמדות שהוצגו בדיון היו האם ״צריך פשוט לקפוץ למים״ - או ״עקב בצד אגודל״

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Quote of the Day: On Prayer? (1813-1855)

Reuven Sherwin

Dec 19, 2019
1 min

Quote of the Day: On Prayer? (1813-1855)

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. -- Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) #quote #philosophy

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מה מייחד אנשים מצליחים? למה אנשים מצליחים?

Reuven Sherwin

Aug 14, 2019
1 min

מה מייחד אנשים מצליחים? למה אנשים מצליחים?

(* For an English version, click here) פורסם לראשונה באנגלית, בשנת 2016. פורסם מחדש - ובעברית - בעקבות השראה שקיבלתי מבת של חברים. בהצלחה! כל כך הרבה מחקר, כל כך הרבה כסף וכל כך הרבה תיאוריות. האנושות כולה הייתה (ועודנה) מסוקרנת לגבי מה מייחד אנשים מצליחים? מהי אותה תכונה, מרכיב סודי - ״טריק״ - שמבדיל אנשים שמצליחים מאלו שנכשלים. לא מאמינים? פשוט תגגלו ״למה אנשים מצליחים״ (או שילוב אחר של מילים נרדפות), ותקבלו עשרות או מאות אלפי תוצאות אפשריות (ובאנגלית, עוד הרבה יותר תוצאות)

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The Top Secret to Success at a Workplace!

Reuven Sherwin

Dec 2, 2018
2 min

The Top Secret to Success at a Workplace!

Managers doing nothing? Employees working too hard? Warren Buffet??? This post manages to irritate me every time I read it. Took me a while to decide if to post it. Decided it's provoked me enough. So now maybe it'll provoke you? Would love to hear your thoughts... Note to Reader: This is written in a somewhat-provocative manner. The style is intend to provoke thought - not to frustrate or anger. If it impacts you in any way other than the intended way, I pre-apologize. It ma

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Just Be On Time. And if you can't be On Time - be Early.

Reuven Sherwin

Apr 16, 2018
1 min

Just Be On Time. And if you can't be On Time - be Early.

Early on in life, I learned two basic lessons from my father: Better be 30 minutes early than 1 minute late (numbers may vary, but you understand the principle) Be nice to people. Say hello and smile - even if you don't know them. He probably had his reasons for developing that method of operation, and overall, as many children do, I guess I accepted this as "If dad says so..." I mentioned the reasoning to "tuning" your behaviour in a previous post, so I won't elaborate on #2

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Reuven Sherwin

Mar 28, 2018
1 min

Two Self-Hacks anyone can do!

Some of us are Smart. Some of us are Smarter. Some of us are Beautiful. Some of us are even more Beautiful. Some of us have Talent. Some of us have more Talent. Either way, that's nothing to be proud of. And it's nothing to be ashamed of. Because we were born that way. We did nothing to be proud of. We actually did less-than-nothing to get. It came with our genes. And yet, there are two hacks we all can-and-should apply. I'll start with the trivial one. 1. You are given a set

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Take a Leap-of-Faith, One Step at a Time

Reuven Sherwin

Dec 31, 2017
2 min

Take a Leap-of-Faith, One Step at a Time

You can not cross the gap without taking a leap of faith. You can not keep going unless you take one step at a time. [Following feedback from one of my best critics, I've added a concrete example at the end.] The other day, we had a discussion about making change. The topic was a how to make a change (lose wait, take up jogging, learn a language) - and make it stay. The two sides of the discussion were basically "take one small step at a time" or "take a leap of faith". After

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Test Yourself - Are you Making an Impact?

Reuven Sherwin

Nov 29, 2017
1 min

Test Yourself - Are you Making an Impact?

Make an Impact! Be Replaceable... As holidays come-and-go, we tend to do some soul-searching, trying to realize what we're doing good - and what we could be doing better. We tend to think highly of ourselves. That's fine. To some extent, even natural. We believe we are doing a good job (as an employee, as a manager, as a parent, as a student, as a child, as a spouse - you got the point...) That's ok. We think nothing needs improving. That's wrong. In almost every domain, we c

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The Way to Make a Difference. Right the Wrong.

Reuven Sherwin

Sep 28, 2017
2 min

The Way to Make a Difference. Right the Wrong.

TL;DR; If you're asked to do something you believe is wrong - speak up. (I'm talking about workplace, but I suspect it can be generalised.) Actively try to Right the Wrong. Either work harder - and learn why it's not Wrong - but actually - it is Right. Or work harder - to explain to your partners why it's Wrong. If both fail, escalate. (There are exceptions, but this is the rule.) Make a Difference. Be Involved. Longer Story (I'm writing about a specific case involving Produc

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Diversification: Having your Cake and Eating it Too...

Reuven Sherwin

Jul 27, 2017
2 min

Diversification: Having your Cake and Eating it Too...

(Originally posted on Facebook, in Hebrew, on July 19th, 2017. Now, in English, and much more general. Original text at end...) They said it can't be done. That you can't have your cake and eat it too. Well, in the context of societies and/or organizations, I believe you can. Read more... There's a riddle I like. A very simple riddle. But a very insightful one. How do you split piece-of-cake fairly between two people? (Answer below the line, search for ***). Recently (June/Ju

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What's the difference between a compliment and an insult?

Reuven Sherwin

Apr 29, 2017
2 min

What's the difference between a compliment and an insult?

The other day at work, I was on a meeting with a number of people. We were discussing some topic and at some phase of the discussion, Joslin turned to Greg and said: "I really appreciate your operational skills. The way you make a plan and execute it is inspiring". As background you should know, that over the years, Joslin and Greg had their differences, and while on a personal level got along fine, on a professional level they were always suspicious of each other, doubting t

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Do you know the one trait all successful people have in common?

Reuven Sherwin

Dec 20, 2016
1 min

Do you know the one trait all successful people have in common?

So much research, so much money and so many theories. Humanity as whole has (is) always been intrigued about what differentiates people who succeed from those who fail. Just google why do people fail succeed and browse the over-6-million results to see how fascinated we are by this topic. So let me summarize it all for you, in one simple sentence: The only 100%-sure difference between people-who-succeed and people-who-fail is that those who succeed continued trying(*). Read i

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The best-ever management and self improvement book! (A click-bait if ever I wrote one.)

Reuven Sherwin

Jun 2, 2016
1 min

The best-ever management and self improvement book! (A click-bait if ever I wrote one.)

The best-ever management and self improvement book - doesn't exist!? You see, in my opinion, most such book are based on a one-line idea (or 3 of them) and fluffed up into many (many, many, many) words, wrapped up in some anecdotes and stories, bound in hard-copy - and sold in millions. So why not create a short blogpost with the one-line and the justification for it? Think I'm cynical? Think I'm over simplifying? You may be right. But at least now I know I'm not alone in thi

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The secret ingredient to all successful relationships is...

Reuven Sherwin

May 24, 2016
2 min

The secret ingredient to all successful relationships is...

(c) Christian Scheja - Trust After many many years of relationships, of the personal and professional kind, I'd like to summarize. All relationships are personal. Any other kind of a relationship - is actually not a classification of the kind/type of the relationship - but actually a classification of where the relationship take place (workplace, home, service provider, restaurant, municipality - you got the drift...) It's all about chemistry. Everything else (skill, exp

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Quote of the Day: The Light at the End of the Tunnel...

Reuven Sherwin

May 8, 2016
1 min

Quote of the Day: The Light at the End of the Tunnel...

A PESSIMIST sees a dark tunnel An OPTIMIST sees light at the end of the tunnel A REALIST sees a freight train The TRAIN OPERATOR sees 3 idiots standing on the tracks... - Unknown Yes, I know - this is less than 100 words in the post, but for QOTD post, I felt it's ok. Hope you enjoy it. Will fluff this up with useless trivia (too many credits to give them out, but I found this as past of a Quora answer): 111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 "Dreamt" is the o

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Reuven Sherwin

Mar 30, 2016
2 min

כוח הדגש - The Power of Punctuation

A blog post in Hebrew, about Hebrew, but the concept works just as well in English (see this link or simply consider the seven different meanings of the following sentence, based on different punctuations: I never said she stole my money). בסדרה האלמותית לילדים, נוער ומבוגרים, ״הפיג׳מות״, בעונה השלישית, פרק 46, רוני נעזרת באביה גרי בחזרות לטלנובלה, וגרי מסתבך באפשרויות הדגשה שונות של הטקסט: "הכל יהיה בסדר בסוף את תראי. רגע אפשר גם ככה.. הכל יהיה בסדר. בסוף את תראי. אפשר גם הכ

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Reuven Sherwin

Jan 19, 2016
1 min

Quote of the Day: Effort Estimates

For any given project, pick two of the above... You can't have all three. So, in the past couple of days, we've had some discussions oabout Effort Estimates (a.k.a Effort Guesstimates) for a specific project we were discussing. Different numbers were thrown around, mostly more than a couple of days. This lead me to the following statement regarding Effort Estimates: Any estimate longer than a week is at risk Any estimate longer than two weeks is unknown This rule-of-thumb s

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Reuven Sherwin

Jan 13, 2016
1 min

Quote of the Day: on Hindsight

(c) flickr | Tim J Keegan | Black and white hindsight So, one weekend at lunch, we were talking about how one chooses a profession, the thought process leading to selecting what to study considering what one wants to eventually be doing for the rest of their lives, and one of the opinion was that the choice/selection is related to whether they already have a family or are in a serious relationship. Interesting. Another opinion said that "had I know then (when I chose a profes

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Got 5 minutes? I want to interest you in a job...

Reuven Sherwin

Jul 15, 2015
2 min

Got 5 minutes? I want to interest you in a job...

Scenario 1 Imagine the following. You just landed a great job in a great company (congratulations!). Your new job expects you to use the technology you want, they offer you the compensation package you hoped for, the correct human environment... it's great! In the negotiation phase ("courtship"?) you made some compromises, your new employer fulfilled some of your requests, and you agreed on a start date. Exciting! The date arrives, and you start working. And three weeks later

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Reuven Sherwin

Jun 11, 2015
2 min

"Yeah, but what do I know?" [Part 2]

(Continued - part 1 is here...) And it wasn't only about knowledge (where one may fairly or objectively argue - at least in perspective - that indeed he didn't know everything) - it was also about opinions. He would/will/does share his opinion or perspective about something (and trust me, he has his opinions), and then downplay it as being "only my opinion, and what do I know?". I would, could, should, did and do claim he did and does knows everything! Well, maybe, just maybe

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