Problem solving skills 1. SWOT Analysis: Strengths and Weaknesses (mostly internal factors in business cases), pitted against Opportunities and Threats (Mostly external factors in business cases).
2. Analyzing ...
Thinking Skills
Problem solving skills If you’re not part of the solution, then you’re a part of the problem.
- Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panthers
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to ...
Thinking Skills
Media literacy Importance of media literacy
1. What is Media Literacy?
Media literacy is how we understand and analyze all mass communication, so people don't easily exploit our biases and weakn...
Thinking Skills
Critical thinking
1. What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking is thinking for yourself and understanding the difference between fact and opinion. It is the opposite of parroting off what you have heard other...
Thinking Skills
Decision making If you find yourself in a hole, stop diggin'.
- Anon
The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your actions.
- Anon
1. Pareto anal...
Writing Skills
Copywriting Copywriting in a nutshell:
- Say something that gets attention. (The main benefit statement – which is targeted at a big problem for your target customer)
E.g. 'Save your har...
Writing Skills
Personal branding |
Self publishing |
Blog writing This is a smarter way of self-publishing. Put something online first. Get traffic and then get out a book. If your blog could be turned into a book, it is a sign that you indeed have a quality blog. I...
Writing Skills
Online writing |
Blog writing
The best tip for online writing is this:
Make your writing concise, scannable, and objective/relevant.
Part 1: How users behave online
1. Users want to searc...
Writing Skills
Business writing
The Economist's method: The Economist is arguably the most respectable weekly 'newspaper' in the world.
The story goes: a long way back, a new journalist approached The Ec...