For the next 5 minutes, let’s elevate your career.

In today’s email:

  • Find them

  • Be likeable

  • Find points of agreement

  • Be expensive with your mood

  • Zanny Minton Beddoes’ career wisdom

ON YOUR CAREER

Find them

Each of has many potential collaborators for our career. These are colleagues in our current organization or fellow travellers in our broader industry. They share our values and enthusiasms. With them, it feels like 1 + 1 = 8. Ideas flow. Work is playful and as we solve a series of puzzles.

We need to keep finding natural collaborators. Some will be present for decades, others for an interesting project.

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Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

— Ryunosuke Satoro
COMMUNICATION

Be likeable

Each of us is likeable.

We get to choose if we want to communicate in a friendly and collaborative way.

We strengthen connections and get things done faster when we do.

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People prefer to say yes to those that they know and like.

— Robert Cialdini
PRODUCTIVITY

Find points of agreement

A productive technique in complex negotiations is to find points of agreement. This helps both parties:

  • Build affinity

  • Have a sense of progress

  • Be optimistic that further agreement can be reached

Negotiating well fast-tracks collaborating and creating value.

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The best way to win a negotiation is to make sure the other side feels they’ve won as well.

— William Ury
1 MINUTE TO SERENITY

Be expensive with your mood

Why let fools and malcontents hijack our mood?

Our mood is worth so much more.

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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.

— Epictetus
CAREER WISDOM

Zanny Minton Beddoes

Zanny Minton Beddoes (1967 — ) was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in London. She studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University and a master’s degree in international relations at Johns Hopkins University.

Minton Beddoes joined The Economist in 1994 and became a leading voice on global finance and economic policy. She served as economics editor before being appointed editor-in-chief in 2015, becoming the first woman to hold the role. Under her leadership, The Economist expanded its global reach while maintaining its focus on data-driven analysis. Minton Beddoes is regarded as one of the most influential economic journalists of her generation. Some of her wisdom:

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Good economics is not about ideology. It is about evidence.

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Capitalism needs reform if it is to retain public trust.

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The biggest risk is not taking risks — it is ignoring long-term consequences.

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