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24 results (expanded search) for "reverse"
Digital & AI
Reverse Image Search Habit
Before sharing any emotionally charged image (disaster, shocking event), reverse-search it to learn its true source and history.
Administrative
Anti-Reverse-Delegation Card
When an employee returns with a delegated problem, don't take it — return it with two questions.
Social
Reverse Mentorship
Mentor a younger person in new tech/culture, and learn from them in return.
Digital & AI
Reverse Image Search
Before believing a "shocking" image, drag it to Google Lens or TinEye to find its true source and date.
Leadership
Onboarding Your Manager (Not the Reverse)
When joining a new manager (or they join you), give them YOUR user manual. How you work best? What annoys? What you need?
Administrative
Backwards Planning From the End Date
Start from delivery day and reverse-engineer what must be ready each week.
Professional
Backwards Planning
Start from goal end-date, draw steps backwards to today.
Administrative
"Consider the Opposite" Practice
Before confirming a decision, spend 10 minutes writing the counter-case forcefully.
Administrative
Inversion Thinking
Instead of "how do I succeed?", ask "how would I fail confidently?" — then avoid each item.
Leadership
Responding to the Innovator's Dilemma
Your current profitable products kill your future innovations. This exercise spins off an innovation unit before too late.
Leadership
Jobs-to-be-Done
Customer doesn't buy your product. They "hire" it for a job in their life. Discover the real job.
Leadership
McKinsey's 3 Horizons: Balanced Growth
Invest in 3 time horizons together: current (H1), next growth (H2), future innovation (H3). Neglecting any = slow death.
Leadership
Pretotyping: Test Idea Before Building
Before building full product, test with "fake prototype" (10× simpler than MVP). Saves months + tens of thousands.
Leadership
Kill the Company: Self-Disruption Exercise
Gather team, ask: "How could you destroy our company in 5 yrs?". Answers = vulnerabilities to fix before a competitor does.
Professional
Inversion Thinking
Instead of "how to succeed?", ask "how to fail?" — then avoid the list.
Social
Right to Change Mind
You have the right to change your mind without justification — old promise doesn't bind forever.
Parenting
Inherited Parenting Audit
A 20-question list about your childhood helps you understand why you parent a certain way — and how to choose otherwise.
Professional
First 90-Day Plan
In new role, listen 30 days, plan 30, execute 30 — don't reverse order.
Social
Tune Your Talk-Ratio
In direct Anglo cultures, talk 60%/listen 40%; in East-Asian, reverse it.
Administrative
Inverted Pyramid (Minto)
Lead with conclusion first, then supporting arguments, then details — never the reverse.
Leadership
Reversible vs Irreversible Doors
Distinguish decisions you can reverse cheaply from those you can't — then treat them differently.
Leadership
Knowledge Reversal Test
Imagine entering the decision with what you know today — would you still make it?
Leadership
Stop-Doing List
Instead of a "start-doing" list, build a "stop-doing" list: what activities to cease to free energy for the most important?
Leadership
Coaching for Confidence vs. Coaching for Competence
First diagnose: does the person lack an actual skill (competence), or have it but not trust using it (confidence)? The treatment is entirely different for each.