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Steps To Curing Your Empty Promise Disease By Scott Walchek fastcompany
Time is precious, but being busy is no excuse to ignore the people you work with. Here are a few tips to help you distill your messages, and follow through.
1. It's OK to Say No
It's ok to say "no" or "not now." Really, a thoughtful "no" is often much better than a "yes" if there's little intention to follow-through on set expectations. One of our partners has become so notorious for making empty promises that his name is being used to describe the action of promising a certainty and then going completely silent. (As in, "yeah, I sent an email to the client last week and he totally Smithed me").
2. Reply Promptly
If you receive a follow-up communication and don't have time to offer a thoughtful reply, send a quick, "Got it. I'll review and get back to you in [timeframe]." If we truly value other people's time and the efforts they're making to build a partnership, then even if you haven't enough time to give a thorough response, a quick acknowledgement can be really effective.
3. Set Expectations
If you know that your schedule will restrict your ability to reply in a timely fashion, before ending your conversation, let the person know, "I may not be able to reply for some period of time…." While this may send a signal that you're less motivated, you set the proper expectations and build a bridge of trust.
4. Invite A Stalking
Sometimes when I know that I'm heading into a particularly busy period, I'll invite a partner to stalk me--by saying something like, "if you don't hear from me after x days, please feel free to connect with me or my assistant…and I won't be bothered if you are persistent." This signals that you're serious about the partnership, but you're aware that other priorities may subsume your attention for a period.
Not one of us is immune to the unkept promise pandemic. Whether we're tyrannized by technology, overrun by out-of-control demands, or we've acquiesced to lower standards--we may be displaying symptoms of this spreading malady. So perhaps it's time to apply ourselves to discovering an antidote.
Chinese
consumers buy half of global luxury goods: report
Questions:
1. Why do people make empty promises?
Why do people break promises?
2. Have you ever broken a promise?
Have you ever made empty promises?
Ways to curing your empty promise problem?
3. Why keeping your promise is good for
you?
4. What are some of the pros and cons of
telling white lies?
5. Is it ok to say no? How to say no to
people?
6. What to do if your girlfriend/ boyfriend
keep breaking promises?
7. Can you forgive a promise breaker?
陸客
Mainlander
toddler pees in Hong Kong street, uproar ensues (shangaiist)
A family of mainland Chinese tourists
visiting Hong Kong have come under fire after video of their child taking a
leak on a local street exploded online and stoked the fires of mainland/HK
resentment..
Online reactions were very much polarised.
The majority of online users in mainland China say they found the parents’
behaviour understandable as they had tried to find a toilet for their child.
“How many
toddlers can hold on long enough when they want to relieve themselves?” said a
commentator, who asked critics to show more tolerance of the parents.
Some pointed to a photo of the child
relieving himself at the scene, which appeared to show the mother using a paper
nappy to catch the urine, rather than simply allowing the toddler to relieve
himself on the ground.
Other online users took a step further and
condemned critics of the parents for “taking the moral high ground,” adding
that their expectation of tourists unfamiliar with the city to find a public
toilet in a short space of time was over the top.
Global Times By Chen Yang
Chinese remain the most enthusiastic luxury
shoppers around the world, with their purchases making up 47 percent of the
global luxury market in 2013, an industry report showed.
Chinese consumers played a key role in
sustaining the growth of the global luxury market, which grew by 11 percent
year-on-year to $217 billion in 2013, Fortune Character magazine said in a
report sent to the Global Times on Friday.
A similar research result published by
consultancy Bain & Company in December said Chinese purchases made up 29
percent of the global luxury market last year.
In the Friday report's breakdown,
consumption of luxury goods in the Chinese mainland stood at $28 billion yuan
in 2013, up about 3 percent from a year earlier, while luxury goods purchased
overseas reached $74 billion.
Questions:
1. What do you think that “mainlander
toddler pees in Hong Kong street”?
2. What do you think about Chinese
tourists?
Do you think that Chinese tourists behave so
badly?
Why are Chinese tourists so rude?
3. Ways of behaving like a good tourist?
4. How to hold in pee when you can't use
the bathroom?
What to do if you want to pee but can't
find toilet
5. Have you ever pee in public?(be honest)
6. What do you think about Taiwanese public
toilets?
7. Are you a fan of luxury brands? why or
why not?
8. Why mainland consumers have a big
appetite for luxury?
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