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David Norris

Scaling online operations

📍 London

Crafting Your Digital Pen: A Guide to Personalising ChatGPT

Greetings, dear readers! I have an exciting tale to share, especially for those enchanted by the art of words and the magic of AI. As a privileged OpenAI ChatGPT enterprise customer, I recently embarked on a quest to mould a GPT in my own writing image. The treasure at the

Growthadox - Embracing Paradox to Unlock Personal and Business Growth

Earlier this year I set about writing a book. I was afraid but the fear gave me energy. Fear? Why would you be afraid of writing a book? Fear that I wouldn't be able to see it through. I did see it through. Fear that I wouldn't find the people

A reverse engineered post

I asked Chat GPT if it could create a stylesheet based on analysing a piece of writing. It said it could so I fed it my previous post. I then asked if it could generate an article. My prompt was: "Would it now be possible to use the above style

Go fast alone or further together

Networking or notworking? I sometime joke that I’m off to a notworking event. When I have a lot to do, networking can seem like a complete waste of time as it doesn’t help me tick things off on my to do list. I’m not a natural networker,

What is growth?

In my view, growth (whether personal or business) often involves paradoxical situations or experiences, such as the need to let go of old beliefs and habits in order to embrace new ones, or the importance of facing challenges and setbacks in order to grow stronger and more resilient. The Cambridge

The dark side can lead to unnatural abilities

In the 1977 movie Star Wars, the sage-like character Obi-Wan Kenobi planted the phrase “Use the force, Luke” into our collective consciousness. This scene was towards the end of the original Star Wars movie in a touch-and-go moment where Luke (the unlikely hero) was flying his X-wing fighter in close

Do X in order to achieve Y

Or - what is a vision and why it is different to a strategy... A vision focuses on tomorrow and describes what an organisation wants to ultimately become. The strategy focuses on today and what an organisation does to achieve the vision. Both vision and strategy are vital in directing

Decisions, decisions

Your manager invites you to a meeting... Which of the following 3 invitations is most useful? Meeting invite 1 "We are meeting later today to discuss issue X. I need to make a decision on the issue this week because if I don't, Y will happen. I would like you

Board paper templates

Need to write a board paper? Here's a couple of templates to get you started. Generally papers will either be created to update the board and keep them informed or to ask for a decision that requires board approval. See below for a template for each. Update or delete any

Mission Driven Tactics and OKRs

Between World War I and World War II saw the development of one of the world’s most formidable fighting forces. It was an army with 4,000 senior commanders. It was the German Wehrmacht. If I was a soldier in the British or Russian Army at that time and