Using questions as a way to codify your learnings — What’s the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon? You may not know the term ‘the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon’, but I’m willing to bet you know the concept. The phenomenon is this: you are in the market for a Toyota Prius. You go to the dealership, test drive the Prius and decide you want to spend a few more days…

Strategies for keeping calm, managing your emotions, and envisioning a positive future — It’s 2023 and just when I think the worst has passed, life has a way of knocking you back down: whether it’s stock market losses, travel delays or cancellations, or not getting the promotion or raise you were hoping for. I’ve remained relatively calm, resilient and positive even through it…

These strategies work for me whether it’s a slump in productivity, a bad day at work, or stupid mistakes in your life — I get them. You get them. We all get into ruts. Sometimes the troughs are temporary. Other times you have to do more work to get out of them. Here are ten things I do when I’m feeling stuck: Get 8 hours of sleep There is nothing better than getting a good night’s rest. If…

Steal James Altucher’s strategy for assessing whether an idea is worth pursuing — The Conspiracy Factor is a concept I learned from James Altucher’s book Skip the Line. It works like this: Consider two different ideas you can pursue (say self-publishing a book or building a Youtube channel). You want to know which of the ideas is worth pursuing (i.e., will lead to…

Four more secrets people won’t tell you about getting promoted in a professional services firm — Hey! You again! You must be quite ambitious. If you’re interested in part 1, you can check it out below, otherwise let’s get to more promotion secrets for professional services individuals (i.e., you). Getting Promoted as a Management Consultant — Part 1 If you're in a professional services firm and looking to get promoted, I’m going to share three pieces of advice that…wangyip.medium.com

If you're in a professional services firm and looking to get promoted, I’m going to share three pieces of advice that other people won’t tell you — If you’re a management consultant looking to get promoted, I’m going to share three secrets that you probably aren’t aware of that will impact your promotion. Because of how much detail I get into, I’ve broken this into two articles. You can find part 2 with three more secrets here.

And the tactics for addressing these critical areas with employees as a manager — In The Truth About Employee Engagement, Patrick Lencioni (the same author of the best-selling The Five Dysfunctions of a Team), talks about the three keys to employee engagement through a fable. This is of course, aside from the necessities: things like getting sufficient pay to pay the bills, psychological safety…

Rules of thumb for when you have difficulty choosing between options — Decision heuristics are quick and dirty rules anyone can use to make better decisions, but as you know, decision-making is complex. I certainly don’t recommend any of these for major or difficult decisions, but if you truly can’t decide among different good options, these rules may help. When you don’t know what you want, focus on what you want to be