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Our lives and our businesses are defined by our connections. The size of your network and the quality of your connections determine the trajectory of your success. Relationships translate into opportunities.

Meridith Elliott Powel
Meridith Elliott Powel

One of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts to watch by Currency Fair. An award winning author, keynote speaker and business strategist.

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  • Networking
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The technologies we use to try to “get on top of everything” always fail us, in the end, because they increase the size of the “everything” of which we’re trying to get on top.

Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman

British journalist and writer, the author of Four Thousand Weeks, the book about making the most of our radically finite lives.

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  • Project Management
  • Productivity
  • Time Management
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In general, design failures are caused by lack of thought, not by malicious intent.

Donald A. Norman
Donald A. Norman

An American researcher, professor, and author (The Design of Everyday Things). As Apple’s User Experience Architect (90's), he became the first person to have UX in his job title.

  • Design & Arts
  • Bad UX Design
  • Design Thinking
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If you can’t describe what you’re doing as a process, then you don’t know what you’re doing.

W. Edwards Deming
W. Edwards Deming

American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant.

  • Project Management
  • Being Organised
  • Clarity
  • Processes
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The right idea is often the opposite of the obvious.

Alex F. Osborn
Alex F. Osborn

An American advertising executive and the author of the creativity technique named brainstorming.

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  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Creativity & Ideas
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Derek Birdsall White Space
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White space is the lungs of the layout. It’s not there for aesthetic reasons. It’s there for physical reasons.

Derek Birdsall
Derek Birdsall

An internationally renowned British graphic designer.

  • Design & Arts
  • Horror Vacui
  • Minimalism
  • Space
  • White Space
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It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent.

John Cleese
John Cleese

An English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. A co-founder of the comedy troupe Monty Python.

  • Project Management
  • Being Disciplined
  • Being Organised
  • Focus
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Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself.

Donald A. Norman
Donald A. Norman

An American researcher, professor, and author (The Design of Everyday Things). As Apple’s User Experience Architect (90's), he became the first person to have UX in his job title.

  • Design & Arts
  • Testing
  • Usability
  • UX Design
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A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem.

Donald A. Norman
Donald A. Norman

An American researcher, professor, and author (The Design of Everyday Things). As Apple’s User Experience Architect (90's), he became the first person to have UX in his job title.

  • UX Design
  • Design Thinking
  • Problem Solving
  • Usability
  • UX Design
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Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.

Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal

Author of books on technology, psychology and business whose writings appear in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.

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  • Creativity & Ideas
  • Innovation & Adaptation
  • Product Design
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