You Just Want to Get It Done: How to Follow Up to Get a Response Quickly
You may want or need to accomplish something, but that’s dependent on getting information or an action by another party.
Communication
Gorillas in the mist
Counting passes of a basketball. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? But there is a famous experiment which shows that many people get so engrossed in a simple task such as counting passes by a group of basketball players that they completely fail to notice the guy in the gorilla suit who walks through the room.
“No” May Be the Most Liberating Word in the English Language
We value our relationships, and in the back of our minds the thought of reciprocity may be bouncing around (“Maybe I’ll have to ask this person for something in the future…”) but we can’t please everyone all the time.