DesuckiFive Friday - April 26, 2024
Happy Friday, everyone. We’re back it, serving up five bite-sized bits crafted to squeeze some of the suck out of your work life. Featuring Cecilia Gorman, Jason Bagley, Susan Cain and a trip down memory lane with your old friend, Jägermeister.
Hope you enjoy. If you do, please feel free to share this with friends, family, coworkers, etc. If not, please pass along to your mortal enemy.
1. DesuckifyWork™ Podcast w/ Cecilia Gorman
It’s a no for me, dog.
Sadly, that’s about the extent of feedback many of us have received (or delivered) in the ad industry.
It’s okay. Most humans suck at giving feedback. The good news? We can get better. And today’s guest on The DesuckifyWork™ Podcast has some great ideas on how to do it.
Cecilia Gorman is a coach and trainer, who runs a Manager Boot Camp that helps managers go from good to amazing. Cecilia rocks. So let’s roll.
2. Desuckifier Spotlight - Jason Bagley
Work sucks when you dream big but have no idea how to do big. Enter Jason Bagley and his Audacious School of Astonishing Pursuits. He fills the ad industry mentorship void in a big way, giving agency talent access to some of the most accomplished pros in the business. He also shares his insights prolifically on LinkedIn—sharp bits of wisdom that immediately make you feel smarter and more capable. We need more Jason Bagleys in this business, but for now, we’re lucky he’s setting a pretty amazing example.
3. Desuckified Book Reco
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Here’s to the quiet ones. The observant. The curious. The folks in the back putting all of the pieces together while the blabber bounces around the room. Here’s to the ones who listen, really listen. The data gatherers. The stay at home and read alone til 2am-ers. The strong silent types. The witty retorters. The calm energy in a sea of chaos. Here’s to the introverts, celebrated beautifully by Cain in this eleven-year-old book that sparked a “Quiet” movement that sounds absolutely delightful to this introvert-skewing ambivert. And we would do well to bring some of this thinking into our creative spaces, where loud often gets lauded, too often drowning out those who prefer to speak with their work.
4. Desuckified Tip of the Week
Most people hate networking. Because most people have one of two pictures in their head when they hear that word. Either a room full of “hi, my name is” ick magnets pressing business cards into each others greasy palms or a never-ending collection of names on your LinkedIn connections list, three of whom you actually know.
There’s another way to network, which can be kind of delightful, actually. It’s called talking to people. Grab a few of those names off your connections list and invite them to coffee. Or a zoom chat. Or a bouncy house. Doesn’t really matter where, as long as you do the whole human interaction thing for a bit. You remember how to do that, right?
5. Desuckified Learning from the Week
Liquor before beer, in the clear. Beer before liquor, never sicker. The “rhyme as reason” effect is real. But not all that spectacular. Studies show people put more stock in information when it rhymes. Which is why we believe the aforementioned nonsense about booze, despite no evidence to back it up, other than that time in college when we’re positive we’d have been fine if we’d downed those 9 shots of Jäger before the six pack, not after. And it’s why those corny old school advertising jingles worked so damn well. Plop, plop, fizz, fizz may sound silly, but it’s science y’all.
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