Resources | Yasar Ahmad | People Leader, Leadership Coaching, Workplace & Talent Management Consulting

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You’ve Just Been Gazumped! A War for Talent!

Ouch, a candidate has just messaged to say they are not joining anymore. They got offered more money elsewhere. Gazumped. Or Gazumping. A...

Yerkes-Dodson Law Taught Me How to Control Stress

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Yerkes-Dodson Law Taught Me How to Control Stress

I’ve been thinking about stress a lot recently. How to turn lemonade from lemons. Looking at the moments, I felt stressed the most and I...

How to say “No” based on Warren Buffet’s priority exercise.

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Learning Methods

How to say “No” based on Warren Buffet’s priority exercise.

Owen Choi our Tech TA Lead has put an agenda topic in our monthly TA leads meeting. The agenda: “More of a reminder, we've seen a huge...

The story of Murphy's plough & positive thinking

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The story of Murphy's plough & positive thinking

McGinty, a farmer, needed to plough his field before the dry spell set in, but his own plough had broken. "I know, I'll ask my neighbour,...

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Be Contrarian

Quote for context: "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." This is perhaps one of the most well-known...

Skin in the Game - Talebs “Look The Part Test” taught me not to trust what I see!

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Skin in the Game - Talebs “Look The Part Test” taught me not to trust what I see!

Another good piece from Sahil Bloom. Nassim Nicholas Taleb famously proposed this rule of thumb in his best-selling book, Skin in the...

How I increased my email open rate by 67% with a moving GIF in my display picture.

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How I increased my email open rate by 67% with a moving GIF in my display picture.

I was speaking to a friend that specialises in marketing a few months ago, and he was telling me how the average person has over 100...

Stereograms Teach Us an Important Lesson About Perception in Recruitment.

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Stereograms Teach Us an Important Lesson About Perception in Recruitment.

As a child. I loved to search the internet and find a good stereogram. Mainly because most of my friends could never work out to see the...

McKinseys framework to becoming a customer-centric people function

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McKinseys framework to becoming a customer-centric people function

McKinsey built a business on trust-building, with multiple components and then has gone on to sell this very model to its clients. The...

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Question Action Matrix

Here's some food for thought from Sahil Bloom. I used to assume that the smartest people had the answers to everything—that they just...

The “Well Travelled Road Effect” and How It’s Affecting Your Team

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The “Well Travelled Road Effect” and How It’s Affecting Your Team

The well-travelled road effect is a cognitive bias in which travellers will estimate the time taken to traverse routes differently...

Colour-Code Your Diary To Get Your 4 Hours a Day

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Colour-Code Your Diary To Get Your 4 Hours a Day

A simple tip to maximise your efficiency is to colour-code your diary. By doing this, you can easily see where you’re spending the...

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The Persuasion Paradox

Have you noticed that the most argumentative people rarely persuade anyone? The most persuasive people don’t argue—they observe, listen,...

The Best Way to Learn - The Feynman Technique

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Learning Methods

The Best Way to Learn - The Feynman Technique

To learn anything and develop a deep understanding Step 1: Identify a topic Step 2: Try to explain it to a 5-year-old Step 3: Study to...

Whenever You Get Stuck In a Discussion Use “Pauls's Wheel of Analysis and Reasoning”

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Learning Methods

Whenever You Get Stuck In a Discussion Use “Pauls's Wheel of Analysis and Reasoning”

Sometimes, we can feel stuck, our thought process delays, and we need time to calibrate what we want to think and say. This can also...

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The Paradox of Today and Tomorrow

Embracing change is something we all try to do at HelloFresh. Over the past two decades how we consume information has changed...

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