Welcome to Amanda’s semi-regular blog, where she writes about how to improve business profitability

Why are we so afraid of difference?
Anna Stanford Anna Stanford

Why are we so afraid of difference?

I recently engaged in the services of a virtual assistant. I had two really great candidates to choose from in the final lineup, and quite honestly could have engaged either one of them. In order to make a decision, I decided to pick the one that was least like me. Whilst it’s often tempting to recruit people like us, from a business and productivity point of view, recruiting for difference is often the smarter move.

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We’re rubbish at defining problems
Anna Stanford Anna Stanford

We’re rubbish at defining problems

Most of us are pretty rubbish at defining problems. We spend so much time in our heads ruminating the problem we shut down our ability to think expansively about it.

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